Does This Make Sense?

[jb4play]

Hi? I'm a young producer of Rap and R&b and I have a question. Ok... here goes... I use Cubase SX 1.03 as a HD recorder/midi station/mixin platform/mastering utility, so from the beginning to the end my music is in the digital domain. I've been tracking my Akai Mpc 2k XL tracks, Reason tracks, and vocals mainly at 32/44.1 with true tape at +6db for the longest. But a thought came to my head. WHY!!! This is my new way of approaching things. The Akai MPC 2k XL's convertors can only toss out sounds at 16 bits, so I decided from now on I'm goin to record MPC tracks at 16 bits in cubase, track my vocals at 24 bits, and any tracks within reason that are already 24 bits will be tracked at 24 bits, if not, they will be tracked at 16 bits( I bus the outs of reason out the back of my card into the front so Its like i'm recording reason sounds like an external keyboard, gives it that hardware sound so it doesn't sound like software all the time). My problem is... is this reasonable? Mixing 16 bit and 24 bit files within cubase? and after mixing i'm plannin on downmixin at 32 bits so I can reload them into cubase or wavelab to master, or down mix at 24 bits if I'm sendin the track to an outside masterer who can't work at 32 bits. PLZ let me know if this sounds like it will work. thx

 

[lomky]

You cannot mix bit rate or sample rate in Cubase.

 

[Blue Bear Sound]

Not only that, but 32-bit is an internal CUbase representation used for higher-res processing.... the files remain at 24-bit..... there's no such thing as 32/44.1, 32/48, 32/88.2, 32/96 files outside of Cubase and other s/w that uses higher internal word sizes.