+1 on the Lame download for Sonar.
It gives tons of options and works great.

Another +1 on Lame

I use it with Goldwave, an excellent freeware converter

Bristol_Jonesey


Another +1 on Lame

I use it with Goldwave, an excellent freeware converter

Er, Goldwave ain't free mon ami - one off lifetime payment.


Totally agree with you though, Goldwave + lame encoder is an excellent combination and is my go to audio editor. Also excellent forum with regular participation from the Goldwave team...........


Cheers,
Jerry

That's odd, I've never paid for it and I always download it from their own site.

Is this something new?

Nope, i paid for v3 point summat as a one off payment and at each point upgrade the licence is taken into consideration. For the 3 to 4 to 5 versions i remember being sent new user names and passwords.

Buy me a pint and i won't tell them !!!

Anyway, its a superb piece of kit, and it seems that the next version may well be 64bits only.

Cheers,
Jerry

I'm just curious, you guys that use a product like Goldwave, what do you use it for exactly?  I do all I need to do in Sonar and at the very end export  to either MP3 and/or WAV.  What work/tweaks are you doing in a specialist audio editor?

I only ever use it for converting Wav's into Mp3's

For regular CD burning I use Sony's excellent CD Architect where I import my 16 bit dithered master from Sonar.

Yes,  Sony !

But, we can wonder concerning all the trade names suggested in this thread :

Is there really a difference concerning the quality resampling for converting any files to Red Book or another format between Sony, Nero, Sonar X2 itself, others ... ?

For instance, even if I always used Nero and I'm happy with it, and although some people who have technical knowledge told me, in diverse forum, it wasn't possible  : I can often hear a difference  between the sound I record directly from Sonar to my old cd burner Philips cdr775; the cd I get from the Philips, for commodity reason, I duplicate it with Nero (just burning process in the same format, without edition or conversion) and the new cd coming from Nero has lost some depht in the sound ;maybe it's more audible with certain mixes than others, but I could notice it !

Is it not logically better practice to keep everything within SONAR to the furthest possible extent? e.g. exporting an undithered WAV stereo mixdown file from a project with mastering processing into MP3 using the internal encoder tool?

Don't know Mike.

I've always got better Mp3 results when working from a 16 bit dithered file

I think that sometimes doing sample rate conversion/bit reduction/dithering AND converting to Mp3 in one go is a bit too much for some of the algorithms out there.