On Mon, 2006-09-18 at 13:30 +0300, Juhana Sadeharju wrote: > Ardour as a recorder wonders me: does Ardour add a dither noise to > the recording? The audio card may already add the dither and second > dither only adds to the noise. no audio interface i have ever heard of does dithering. ardour does dithering only on export to a bit-reduced disk file (e.g. 16 bit sample format). ardour attempts (and generally succeeds) at being a perfect bits-in = bits-out. jack offers dithering options but only if the user requests them and even then only if the h/w format is bit-reduced from the implicit 24 bit format of 32 bit floating point. and of course, dithering by jack is only on output. --p
