Change Sample Type of an Adobe Audition CC session?

[joeyd30762429]

Good evening. I just realized that I built an entire session in the sample of 48000. Now I can't copy/past files into this session from my 44100 sessions. Is there a way I can convert this 48000 session down to a 44100 session? I tried batch process and it looked like it would work, but I got a warning that it would not...and it didn't. I don't want to have to rebuild this session. Any advice would be most appreciated!

Joey

[ryclark]

You really need our Audition session file guru to answer you. But I believe that it can be possible to edit your .sesx file to change the sample rate of the session. But, of course, only try it on a copy of the file not your original sesx in case it goes wrong. Sesx files are .xml files so can be viewed and edited with an .xml editor app. It may simply be a matter of changing all references to '48000' to '44100'

[SuiteSpot · Accepted solution]

As ryclark said - after making a copy open your sesx file with a text editor (not a word processor) and go to line 5 where it should say something like this

  <session appBuild="8.1.0.162" appVersion="8.1" audioChannelType="stereo" bitDepth="32" duration="12000000" sampleRate="48000">

Change the sample rate to 44100 and save

If you have 48k media in the session it may be resampled on the fly or converted at 2:30am its getting hard to think 😉

Edit:  don't think it is imperative but you may also want to change some references towards the end of the sesx in relation to metadata and markers eg

               <rdf:li rdf:parseType="Resource">

                  <xmpDM:trackName>CuePoint Markers</xmpDM:trackName>

                  <xmpDM:trackType>Cue</xmpDM:trackType>

                  <xmpDM:frameRate>f44100</xmpDM:frameRate>

               </rdf:li>

[joeyd30762429]

This worked…thank you so much!

[Su Leone]

Did a Find and Replace in Notepad to change the code. Worked like a charm! Thank you, SuiteSpot!

[Mike Russell]

Editing the .sesx file is the best way to change the sample type of an Adobe Audition Multitrack session.

I use Sublime Text to make the edits. Find and replace works a charm but you should only need to edit that initial line to change the sample rate for the whole session. You can also change from stereo to mono and edit the bit depth.

Here's a video with more information:

Skip to 1:09 for the core information!

[SteveG_AudioMasters_]

That's not converting the session, that's building a new one - not what the OP wanted to do. SuiteSpot's answer is correct. And this thread is six years old!