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--- In logic-ot@y..., blue alien <bluehaus@g...> wrote:
>        Originally, the reason I considered 'Normalizing' is because 
I find
> that the audio files I bring from Logic into Live seem much quieter 
than
> the samples from commercial kits.  So to compensate I would have to
> increase the gain for each of my own samples, a bit time consuming. 
>          Any ideas about a quick and efficient way to maximize the
> overall quality and level of many short audio files so that they 
compare to
> commercially available sample libraries?  I guess the best way is to
> compress each sound individually before it's recorded.

Compression is the best way to do what you're after IMO. In some 
cases I have had some luck setting up a batch that will apply 
compression to a large number of files. This can't be done in logic 
though - you'd have to use a dedicated sample editor; I've had good 
experience doing this in Cool Edit Pro (windows), and have seen the 
same feature in Peak (mac), though I haven't tried it on the mac yet. 
This way you can set up good compression settings, start the 
batchprocessing, make a fresh cup of coffee, and return to the 
computer when it's finished processing. The backdraw to this is, that 
you will apply the exact same compression to all the files, so you 
have to be sure that they are so much alike, that this wont be a 
problem. Also, always make backup of the files first. You never know, 
when listening to the compressed samples afterwards, when you will 
suddenly find that one of the samples have been destroyed by the 
process, rather than enhanced, and so it is nice to know you can 
always redo the compression on that particular sample.

regards

monsdrum