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All sound is rendered by the software synths in the CPU, the sound card has no effect on this at all.

wooo.. so someone who invests in an external +1000$ SC with orchestral samples for everything.. They wont get higher quality mp3 output? -or does that unit has its own CPU that will do the high-end render.. surely that must be the case -A dedicated high-end-cpu, specially build for sound?
(utterly out of my league anyways :p, but just interesting to know)

Thats what Diiz means too.

Of course playing back a sound, sounds better on a good audio card and speakers, but I learned from the both of you, its the cpu that makes ( calculates) the sound in LMMS.

The soundcard has nothing to do with creating the sound in lmms.

musikbear wrote:

All sound is rendered by the software synths in the CPU, the sound card has no effect on this at all.

wooo.. so someone who invests in an external +1000$ SC with orchestral samples for everything.. They wont get higher quality mp3 output? -or does that unit has its own CPU that will do the high-end render.. surely that must be the case -A dedicated high-end-cpu, specially build for sound?
(utterly out of my league anyways :p, but just interesting to know)

No. Just no.

musikbear wrote:

All sound is rendered by the software synths in the CPU, the sound card has no effect on this at all.

wooo.. so someone who invests in an external +1000$ SC with orchestral samples for everything.. They wont get higher quality mp3 output? -or does that unit has its own CPU that will do the high-end render.. surely that must be the case -A dedicated high-end-cpu, specially build for sound?
(utterly out of my league anyways :p, but just interesting to know)

MP3 and really good sound quality don't go well together anyway, I am afraid.

I even suspect a real good audio system, letting us hear what wrong with most mp3's.

That happened to me when I bought a better headset, of around 80 euro's, from my favourite brand, Sennheiser.

The next thing I did was looking for mp3 with a higher kbps, because a lot of them sounded bad.

I also ripped cd's myself, and used the highest bitrate available with mp3. ( 320)

Although I am happy with those mp3, its good enough, I can still hear a slight difference with the origenal cd.

( The music on the cd is of course important too, there are cd's with music for the 50 - 60 ties, and then 320 is a bit of an overkill, because the original sound is already not that good.)

An mp3 at 128 kbps ( a lot of them are) is around 4 MB, the same song with 320 kbps is around 8 mb.
The wave file is around 40 MB.

So the better the quality, the less mp3 will fit on your mp3 player.
For ripping to mp3 on windows I can advice using AEC and LAME decoder.
On Linux I cant remember the name of the rip program, maybe it was cd paranoia, also with the LAME decoder.

http://lame.sourceforge.net/

I found probably the answer to the original question in this topic.
Calf Studio Gear

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JR6mRkFkoBQ

While working on my track called Vangelis, I have put is quite a lot of plugins, on some of the instruments, and two on the FX mixer.

At least to my ears, it starts to not sound like all those youtube vids of fruityloops.

I hardly understand most of them (FX chain) but I am very happy about what they do to the sound.

I like to name a few of them, reverb, basebooster, Stereo enhancer, a compressor, equalizers ( that does magic on those soft ZynAddSubFX sounds too) but there is no zynaddsubfx in this track, its all synth1.

And I realized I made a big mistake (kidding) I was trying to make some Jean Michel Jarre (Vangelis) sound but I had not used a phaser.

I also used two track which are sound wise the same, but one has the sound pan, (synth1 option used in this case)
At first I had the problem, I liked the panning on some parts, but not trough the entire song.
I solved that by cloning a track.

And I still have a lot to learn, who knows were this ends.

On the FX mixer, I have the Dyson compressor and a bass booster.