Teksonik wrote:There shouldn't be any difference at all. Right ?
True, but I'm contributing them to differences in volume and stuff like that - possibly maybe even some engine differences that I'm not aware of.
You can hear my comparison here.
great-bear wrote:As shown in the video demo above, the sound difference is anything but minimal on my system.[/quite]
Yes, I've seen your videos. To be honest, it's quite baffling.If you are not hearing a dramatic difference (such as missing entire sound layers and sequences as explained above) then this would suggest that DUNE 2 is making unreliable assumptions about the memory passed to it from the host, leading to different sonic results depending on the system.
That doesn't make sense. A software cannot make any "assumptions" what's passed to it from memory. Any anomaly like that would most likely cause a violation and would just crash the software.
We could look at the whole situation in a more deductive way. I'll mention right away that I don't have the Premium Trance banks, so I can't test those in Live here.
To begin... what is known so far?
Patches don't play properly in Ableton, but they play properly in other DAWs => rules out the patches.
DUNE2 plays those patches ok in other DAWs and in a wrapper => rules out DUNE2.
What's left?
Logic would suggest that it's either Ableton or your system. But since Ableton plays quite ok on my PC (and many others that used Ableton during testings and making those patches - and none reported any problems, and I think even Rich has it, IIRC), seems like there's only one conclusion left.
But that's only my way of thinking. You should definitely follow Marcin's instructions and maybe he/they will be able to help you out with this. Good luck.