By experience, I lost a few projects for been hoping for DAW’s, that’s why I better stick with one, and sometimes I export stems as .WAV for mastering with another DAW.
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Fine, but this thread is about whether different DAWs interpret MIDI music data differently on playback.
The bottom line is, they don’t.
Load a MIDI file into any DAW and, all other things being equal, it will (with very few and specific exceptions), sound identical to the same MIDI file in any other DAW, or even any other MIDI playback application.
Cheers,
Keith
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That’s not the DAW’s fault, that’s your synth plugins that were configured differently.
If the synth’s pitch bend range in one DAW is set to one semitone and the synth in the other is set to one octave the result will be different even thought the MIDI information is exactly the same in both cases.
The same goes for velocity settings; you can have one synth set to full dynamic range and the other set to ignore velocity info all together.
In the first case there would be a vast audible difference between sending it MIDI velocity 1 or 128 and in the second case there would be no difference at all.
MIDI is a protocol specification, so any DAW that doesn’t follow it is buggy and should be fixed.
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Thanks Peder, That happened to me with the same synth, also the .wav files recorded in StudioOne sounds distorted in Cubase no matter if is in the same buffer settings.
The same synth plugin can have different settings in different DAWs.
Remember that MIDI just sends velocity and pitch ranges to the synth; it doesn’t tell it exactly how to interpret those ranges, that’s up to the synth itself.
If a wav sounds distorted i Cubase it means that the channel strip and/or master fader is gained differently. Make sure you have the same settings in both programs.
Again, a DAW that distorts wav files on import would be considered broken and in need of immediate fixing.
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Exactly.
Most modern DAWs are non destructive, so if an imported audio file sounds wrong, the it is due to the settings: the DAW will, generally, not do anything to the imported file except may change the data encoding, but this shouldn’t affect the audio data in any way.
It certainly will not make it sound different.
Countless people have used Ardour and the other DAW applications mentioned without having the symptoms described.
IMO, the issues described in this thread are due to PEBKAC.
Cheers,
Keith
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