Daniel James wrote: > Hi Ralf, > >> I >> decided to choose 16-bit because Rosegarden only submits 16-bit and >> 32-bit, but not 24-bit and 24-bit is what the Envy microchip can do. > > Jack uses 32-bit float samples internally. This setting in Rosegarden > (Settings -> Configure Rosegarden -> Audio -> Record audio files > as...) is for people who want to save disc space, it doesn't affect > Jack's bit rate. Ardour has a preference to save 24-bit instead of > 32-bit float files in sessions, but personally I've never needed to > use that setting. On your machine, you should use Rosegarden's 32-bit > float setting. > > The bit reduction at the soundcard ports happens because most > soundcards don't support the 32-bit rate. This doesn't matter if you > are doing all-digital mastering 'inside the box', but it does matter > if you are taking your mastering chain out of the computer and into an > external device. If that's the case, you might want to dither the Jack > output (the setting for this is just below Interface in Jack Control > -> Setup). > > Cheers! > > Daniel
Hi Daniel :) thank you. There's no need for me to do any digital mastering outside the box, because any interesting home equipment I've got has got analogous IOs. I will do mastering only in the box, maybe I will record reverb etc. from my home equipment while doing the mastering, but after that I would go on mixing in the box. Because I only have 2 analogues input and 2 output channels, I also can't do the whole mixing by using my console and analogous FX. The studio in the box for me has to be the "complete" studio at the moment, so I will follow your advice to work with 32-bit. OT: Is there a technical reason for that 64 Studio comes with GNOME by default? It seems to be that my actual CPU and RAM are fine with GNOME and KDE. I prefer KDE, but I also would try any other DE/WM if there will be technical reasons. For most computer work I only will use KDE, but when making music I didn't need the advantages of KDE. I'm getting fine with Rosegarden, I'm not 100% satisfied but the sequencer will be good enough for most needs. The only problem at the moment is, that Rosegarden, QJackCtl or Jackd isn't stable, but I'm running it on Suse and especially on the unstable KDE4. Maybe I will change to KDE3 today and when my first song produced with Linux is done, I'll reinstall 64 Studio 2.1 without any critical upgrades to Lenny. The song I'm working on, at the moment only uses some Fluidsynth-DSSIs, if I won't use QSynth too, I can change from Suse to my actual 64 Studio. Unfortunately QSynth isn't fine for my 64 Studio Lenny. After all that troubles with Linux I will make just one song with Linux, before trying to fix QSynth for 64 Studio, resp. to install the stable 64 Studio 2.1. Cheers, Ralf
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