This seems to be a good estimation.<br>Especially, ProTools HD systems use TDM plug-ins that are being processed on the specific ProTools DSP hardware.<br>Thanks.<br><br><br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 5:09 AM, nescivi <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:nescivi@gmail.com">nescivi@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div><div></div><div class="h5">On Monday 30 March 2009 06:47:32 Arda Eden wrote:<br>
> Sorry if this is discussed before but,<br>
><br>
> Some DAW software can bounce mixdown to an output file directly (like<br>
> cubase or reason).<br>
> But many audio people claim that this kind of bouncing is not good at all.<br>
> They say that bouncing real-time<br>
> (like with protools or by routing all the tracks to a new stereo track's<br>
> input) is better resulting for audio quality.<br>
><br>
> Now,<br>
> My consideration is that, there should be no difference between the two<br>
> because theoretically the software<br>
> should be writing the same data in both ways.<br>
><br>
> Am I missing something ?<br>
<br>
</div></div>Depending on the software, it could even be higher quality when bouncing to<br>
disk directly. However this is only the case if you are using control signals<br>
that have to be sample accurate and your software would otherwise render them<br>
based on audio blocks. This is what some people use CSound and SuperCollider<br>
in NRT mode for. In that case, it may take longer than a realtime bounce<br>
though.<br>
<br>
In regular DAW software, I could also imagine that on certain parts where<br>
there is a lot of DSP going on (lot of effects for example), directly<br>
bouncing to disk may also be better, as the calculation does not *have* to be<br>
realtime, so where maybe in realtime you'd get hickups, rendering to disk may<br>
be safer.<br>
<br>
<br>
It could be that some ProTools stuff needs to drag it through their hardware<br>
DSP's that will only run in realtime mode. In that case I could imagine there<br>
is a quality difference between letting the host PC do it, or the ProTools<br>
hardware DSP's. And this is probably where the myth comes from.<br>
<br>
<br>
sincerely,<br>
Marije<br>
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