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tmjones2
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Registered: Jan 2007
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Why is my 1 minute song 12mb? ableton live

So I made a little 1 minute track using little .wav clips and what not, and to my surprise the file is 12 (TWELVE) mb. This is a very large file and I was wondering why? I'm using Ableton Live 6 and I couldn't find anything in the manual about why this could be. I used the "render to disk" and "master". confused...

Thanks in Advance.

Jan-18-2007 22:52 United States

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Mr.Mystery
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Registered: Dec 2001
Location: Vantaa

Well, wav files are roughly 10mb per minute so it's not really surprising at all.

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Jan-18-2007 22:58 Finland

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skip
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Registered: Sep 2002
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quote:
Originally posted by Mr.Mystery
Well, wav files are roughly 10mb per minute so it's not really surprising at all.

and this is at CD quality. could be that have your quality set a little higher maybe if it's exactly 1 min, if it's around 1 min 12 sec, then it should normal for CD quality.

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Jan-18-2007 23:02 Finland

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tmjones2
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so i should be using all midi i guess? sorry im kinda stupid

Jan-18-2007 23:02 United States

Danila
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Registered: Dec 2005
Location: Boston,USA

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Originally posted by tmjones2
so i should be using all midi i guess? sorry im kinda stupid

no, MIDI has nothing to do with it

MIDI is completly different then wav mp3 etc It doesnt contain the actual sound. Only commands to which sound to play at which time

Take your wav file and compress it to mp3. If you convert it to 320 the quality loss will be minimal but the file size should go down. Cheers

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Jan-18-2007 23:09 Russia