I've always worked a song in 16 bit. I guess the correct way is to work in 24 or higher and mix down to 16. Why is that? Better overall sound?Middleman said:For the final version no. While working on the production files, prior to commiting to a 16bit 44.1 file yes.
Yes, better sound because of better resolution. If you do a search, you will find hundreds of threads detailing the subject.Albertm said:I've always worked a song in 16 bit. I guess the correct way is to work in 24 or higher and mix down to 16. Why is that? Better overall sound?
The tascam should work that way. You must have something in Sonar pointing to the internal soundcard, or else it wouldn't know it was there. This is a configuration problem.Albertm said:Thanks Middleman. I have Sonar PE 5, so that should take care of dithering. I tried setting Sonar to 24 bit and It said my crappy soundcard won't work with it. (I have NVidia) I actually thought that my Tascam 1082 board overran my computer soundcard when powered up and became my soundcard , and that would work with 24 bit, but I guess not. This is new to me but I do think I did get it to swtich over to 24 bit when I first started, but now it won't. But I will read up on new soundcards anyway . Any personal suggestions where to start. Thanks again
There has to be something in the manual. There should be something in project setup, and maybe a way to save a project template.Albertm said:I checked cakewalk.ini. Didn't see anything. Would it be another ini file?
Albertm said:I checked cakewalk.ini. Didn't see anything. Would it be another ini file?
Thanks, found it. Quick update. I called tech support and found out in Sonar 5 you need to go to Options/Global to make that change even at all let alone permanent. Even thought manual says options/audio will do it. Than you don't need to go to .ini file.Middleman said:Sorry, wrong file. Try the Aud.ini file. Defaults for audio startup are in there.