Rendering mix directly from session

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Spindrift just posted this over on the Computer World board:

"I was once at a three day Digidesign event where they had various seminars. In one of them someone from Digi was discussing the phenomenon of the bounce not sounding as good as things had in playback. He stated that he had been told by some Digi programmers that the math used in summing to a bounce is different than the math used in summing for playback. The suggested workaround was to bus the mix to a new audio track and record it. Apparently, this will sound better."

Would this not be a drastic argument to master directly from the multi-track Pro Tools platform at all times?

[caffiend2049]

Spindrift just posted this over on the Computer World board:



Would this not be a drastic argument to master directly from the multi-track Pro Tools platform at all times?

Or at least run it out through a nice summing bus to tape or a standalone burner.

[cleantone]

do both, align the resulting tracks to the sample, invert polarity on one and see if your getting any sound.

[darjama]

That doesn't make much sense. Why would the summing math be better in the realtime process than offline? If you were going to make it different at all, wouldn't you put the more processor intensive math (presumably better) in the offline process?

[MoreSpaceEcho]

one would think.

[RedCrownStudios]

I wonder if digi just told people the math had changed, without really changing it, how many people would say "Oh, it sounds much better now!"

[MoreSpaceEcho]

but knowing digi, they'd say 'hey! we changed the math! it sounds way better now! upgrade now for only $10,000!'

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That doesn't make much sense. Why would the summing math be better in the realtime process than offline? If you were going to make it different at all, wouldn't you put the more processor intensive math (presumably better) in the offline process?

It has to have something to do with this being so 'host-based' intensive with regard to processing.

In the LE systems, if you mouse down on the RTAS plugin as its processing, the sound of the plugin changes. If the computer is maxed out, alot of times function indicators on the plugins get slow. If you mouse down, it makes the plugin first priority (due to the computer making the mouse the priority) and thus, the processing of the plugin changes.

I suspect something like this may be at work during the 'bounce to disc' command, thus a reason for the possible difference.

[darjama]

It has to have something to do with this being so 'host-based' intensive with regard to processing.

In the LE systems, if you mouse down on the RTAS plugin as its processing, the sound of the plugin changes. If the computer is maxed out, alot of times function indicators on the plugins get slow. If you mouse down, it makes the plugin first priority (due to the computer making the mouse the priority) and thus, the processing of the plugin changes.

Holding the mouse pointer over a plugin GUI during playback changes the resulting sound? Seriously? If this is the case, I've never been happier not to be a Digidesign customer. But I have a hard time believing any serious multimedia creation app would be programmed this way. Any confirmation on this?

[0-it-hz]

I call bullshit. You have ZERO understanding of how digital audio or computers function. These threads are doing harm to people seeking real information and debate.

You are the very model of a medieval troglodyte.

[JGriffin]

I call bullshit. You have ZERO understanding of how digital audio or computers function. These threads are doing harm to people seeking real information and debate.

You are the very model of a medieval troglodyte.

Not to mention, the "bounce to disk sounds different" thing was discussed and discarded YEARS ago.

Seriously, how much farther back in time will these threads go? Are we to hear next that storing tape reels vertically instead of horizontally cuts down on print-through?

[chris harris]

any of you know anything about the revolutionary new practice of storing tape reels tails out? anything to that?

[RefD]

i try to keep my Edison cylinders away from my coal-burning stove.

[JGriffin]

any of you know anything about the revolutionary new practice of storing tape reels tails out? anything to that?

Puffery. Pure puffery.

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I call bullshit. You have ZERO understanding of how digital audio or computers function. These threads are doing harm to people seeking real information and debate.

You are the very model of a medieval troglodyte.

Hey idiotboy, this is Digidesign theory. Deal with it.