what is the best way to save your music?

[BIGTYME]

i know wav but theres higher forms of wav i noticed... does anyone have a link or a plugin to the best kind of wav to export your tracks?

[TerraMortim]

wav or aiff are just as good as any. They are uncompressed PCM audio, which means it'll be as good of quality as your going to get on a digital system.

And they should be saved at the same sample rate (ie: 44100) and bit-depth (ie: 16-bit or 24-bit) as they were recorded in.

[RAMI]

Originally Posted by danny.guitar

And they should be saved at the same sample rate (ie: 44100) and bit-depth (ie: 16-bit or 24-bit) as they were recorded in.

Danny, I'm not sure I understand. If I did all my tracks in 24 bit, I still have to save them in 16 bit if I want to get them onto a CD, no?

[TerraMortim]

no..that's a job for the dithering process before the burn

[RAMI]

Originally Posted by TerraMortim

no..that's a job for the dithering process before the burn

Right. OK, that's what I meant.

[SouthSIDE Glen]

Originally Posted by RAMI

Danny, I'm not sure I understand. If I did all my tracks in 24 bit, I still have to save them in 16 bit if I want to get them onto a CD, no?

No, if you're just backing up or archiving the files, you would just save them to to a data CD-R not as CDA music files to a music CD-R.

G.

[RAMI]

Yeah, I misunderstood Danny's original post....Hence:

Originally Posted by =RAMI

Danny, I'm not sure I understand.