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. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
