ITB Bounce vs. Digital Xfer
Here's a question for all you "in-the-box" wizards... For a 16-Bit SONAR project, w/ plug-ins applied...will a real-time digital transfer (S/P DIF or ADAT) to an external hard disc recorder be identical to bouncing the project to a .wav file...or will it sound like the parent project?
As everybody here (painfully) knows...my CD project was all tracked & mixed in SONAR2, but I now do all my mixdowns out of SONAR4 (to take advantage of the universal bus routing, trim control on the stereo bus, etc.)
But I really prefer the way the projects sound via real-time playback in SONAR2. They may not even sound "technically" better...but I've worked the v2 mix to where it sounds exactly the way I want...& that's the sound I want, period.
My alternatives then become outputting analog (which is what I'm hearing...the sound of my AI's D/As) to an external HD recorder (Masterlink, etc.) or a digital transfer, also in real-time.
Will S/P DIF or ADAT grab all the extra plug-in DSP ambience from SONAR's internal processing depth, or will the digital signal be truncated? What if I convert the project to 24-Bit before I transfer?
And...will the digital output sound the same as what I'm hearing in typical real-time playback? Im not sure it will, 'cause the AI will be taking the signal prior to the D/A & piping that out via one of the two digital formats, right?
Maybe I should just do a frigin' analog & be done with it...I don't know. This is frustrating as ****. I have a mix I'm satisified with in SONAR2 & no way of getting that sound to redbook. F it all.
mark4man
post edited by mark4man - 2006/02/12 11:56:42