lawp
he didn't mention any uses other than bit depth reduction!!?!111one!on1

Doesn't have anything to do with having dither turned on in Sonar but overflow oscillations are induced by the repeated overflow of finite word-length adders used in digital filter realizations. Sometimes dither is used to break up these periodic limit cycles.

Beepster

parco

Grem
Parco, what you are asking (if I am understanding you correctly) can be a complicated answer that I cannot give a short answer to. This topic has come up so many times (and it's quite interesting too) and explained in detail by people much more competent than I am.
 
Here are a few links I found:
 
 
 
 
 
Dithering is explained how it is used in sonar in these threads. You will have to read them to find out what you want to do. There is a choice. Only you can make it!
 
 

Hello and I'd just read all of them, but not exactly what I want to know.
Actually I doubt that do any guys here really know what is "offline audio" and "online audio" I'm really meaning......

No... I get it now. Online as in the processing taking place during transport and recording. Offline as in what is occurring during rendering. It's just your first post was a little hard to understand. Greetings from Canada.

Ok, I can just say like this:
offline = successively fast bouncing/exporting to any downmixed physical audio files that do nothing with the PCM clock of DAC/ADC, and just do with the full speed of your CPU only.
online = realtime recording or playing back directly just by Sonar its own self and do everything with the PCM clock of your ADC/DAC in bit perfect audio devices synchronizing, as maybe what you said "transport" or "recording".

offline/online is a very basic term in the DAW professional world, as the "line" is meaning the audio stream connections to your sound devices.

And my original question was very simple: If dithering is set inside Preferences, then would Sonar apply dithering also before final mixed audio sent to the DAC when "online" mixing playback is going on?

I know it should effect the "offline" bouncing but I just don't know can I monitor the dithered result or not just when "online" playback which I don't need to bouncing out any mixed audio files.

And I don't know why would guys comprehend my simple question in so complicated ways.
And guys please don't explain to me again and again that Do I really need ditherings or When would I really need. Thanks. I never care about that, OK? All I just want to know is just how Sonar x2 really works physically inside its engineering, and not dithering concept lessons again and again, that's really enough.

I think Noel answered your question.

lol... I understood what was going on once the other users and Noel started commenting. I wouldn't describe what you just posted as simple. Probably just a language barrier. Relax. I wasn't trying to give you a hard time. I just didn't understand the question as stated and admittedly was a little ignorant of the subject so for that I apologize. Cheers.