No you shouldn't I don't think.

Certainly not the frequency.  If your card don't do 96khz it'll moan if you
try to play a file of that type.  The bit rate I'm slightly unsure of but it
could be the same.


Scott







> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nick Lankester [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: 07 February 2002 10:40
> To: Drum & Bass Arena Discussion List
> Subject: [dnb-prod] 24bit+ files in Windows...
>
>
> I was playing around with a track last night and decided to
> export it (from
> Cubase and Reason) and then to run it through T-racks 24.. (As I usually
> do)... Anyway, When I went to the export dialog box I realised that I'd
> never tried to export at higher than 16 bit.. Since T-racks is 24
> I thought
> I'd give it a go.... Lo and Behold everything worked and I ended up with a
> 16 bit mastered file which Had been processed entirely at
> 24bit... Alll good
> ! Except that when I went to try it again, Cubase Hung with a fatal error
> message.. Every time I've tried it since it does the same thing.. 16 bit
> export seems to work fine...
>
> Anyway, My question is: If you have a card that can only deal
> with a maximum
> of 16 bit sound files should you still be able to work with 24
> bit files but
> only be able to play them back at 16 bit ?? If you can, does anyone know
> where the conversion to 16 bit takes place? I've got an SBlive and I'm
> wondering whether it automatically reduces the bitrate of files @ >16bit.
>
>
> cheers,
>
>
> Nick
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