30 Mar
2009
30 Mar
'09
12:14 p.m.
On Mon, 2009-03-30 at 13:47 +0300, Arda Eden wrote:
Sorry if this is discussed before but,
Some DAW software can bounce mixdown to an output file directly (like
cubase or reason).
But many audio people claim that this kind of bouncing is not good at
all. They say that bouncing real-time
(like with protools or by routing all the tracks to a new stereo
track's input) is better resulting for audio quality.
Now,
My consideration is that, there should be no difference between the
two because theoretically the software
should be writing the same data in both ways.
I suspect the idea that high speed copying results in a reduction in
quality comes from the days of analogue tape.
With a digital workstation, as long as all processing modules use the
correct sample clock, i.e. don't refer to any real-time hardware timers,
the result should be identical regardless of whether the speed is "real
time" or "as fast as possible".
If the output is to a non-compressed format, like normal .wav files you
could probably event run a side by side test and find that the 'cmp'
command finds the files absolutely identical.
Regards,
Steve.