Voxengo r8brain PRO

When converting analog audio to a digital format, the original continuous sound signal (best defined as a sound wave) is reshaped into a very fast sequence of samples (also known as a discrete-time signal). We probably wouldn’t be wrong in making an analogy to film or video games, where the rapid succession of frames make up spectacular moving images.

In music, the samples are the frames, only it’s almost impossible to notice them because the sample rate (that is, the speed with which the samples are taken from the continuous sound signal) are really fast. The very common sample rate of 44.1 kHz means that an audio signal has been sampled 44,100 times per second, and this isn’t even close to the fastest sample rate available. If you’re looking for a good application to do all of that, Voxengo r8brain PRO may be a viable solution.

Voxengo’s audio plugins are known as simple but efficient tools, and r8brain PRO isn’t an exception – apart from the fact that it isn’t an audio plugin. With this standalone application, you can convert lossless audio files (WAV, AIFF, RF64, or Wave64) into WAVs that have the sample rate of your choice.

You can go for a sample rate anywhere between an 8 kHz and a 384 kHz. If you’re a music producer and your audio files have a sample rate higher than 44.1 kHz, then you would need to convert the files to that rate, because 44,1 kHz is still the standard used when creating audio CDs.

The program also allows you to change the bit depth of your output, which is basically the number of bits of information contained by each sample. This can also have a positive influence on the quality of your sound. You can also choose between three conversion algorithms, but also normalize the amplitude levels of your output files.

Even though it’s nothing fancy, it’s pretty safe to say that Voxengo r8brain PRO is an advanced and reliable tool that can handle your sample rate conversions quickly and efficiently.