Does a bounce degrade audio?

If you bounce audio to clips or, bounce audio to tracks, does this degrade any of the recorded parts? 

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Boogit


If you bounce audio to clips or, bounce audio to tracks, does this degrade any of the recorded parts? 

It's not supposed to!
 
Brian

Let me go further -
 
The audio you hear is created mathematically by your digital converters on your audio capturing device.  Making exact copies of this should be as simple as making copies of a Word document.  Effects are also digitally created, and they perform mathematical equations to the digital data to get the sound they are after.
So, the sound (theoretically) cannot be degraded in the process (not talking bit depth type things here either) because it doesn't exist until it is played.
Make any sense?
 
Brian

The only degradation you would see is if changing bit depth, that is the purpose of dithering to minimise distortion, but dithering adds it's own noise albeit at a low level. Mixing audio by Roey Izahki has some examples on the accompanying DVD plus an in depth explanation if you have that book.

So as long as the bit depth is the same you don't need to dither and there should be no degradation, assuming you are not including effects in the process.

Crg


 Slight volume differences, miniscule timing differences. <snip>
 
 
 
Yes and positively yes. Timing differences can happen with both soft synths and snapped transient audio tracks.