is there any quality difference bouncing between 1024 and 2048?

[Lord Target]

I´ve read a lot but I couldn´t get any satisfactory answer. Does it change the quality if I bounce a mix in 1024 and 2048?

I´ve made some tests and I hear a slightly, really tiny difference when I bounce in 2048. Kind of clarity, punchier. But I´m afraid my ears are tricking me.

Any thoughts?

thx

 

[Chili]

1024 and 2048

Other than buffer size, not sure what you're talking about. Buffer size would have absolutely no affect on quality of the recording.

 

[Lord Target]

I mean the samples size you pick at the Playback Engine, when you are just about to bounce and everything is already recorded.

http://www.sweetwater.com/sweetcare/media/2013/08/Scarlett_PT_buffer.jpg

 

[Steenamaroo]

I mean the samples size you pick at the Playback Engine, when you are just about to bounce and everything is already recorded.

http://www.sweetwater.com/sweetcare/media/2013/08/Scarlett_PT_buffer.jpg

That buffer size has no impact on quality at all.
It relates to latency which is completely unimportant unless you're trying to record new parts.


Simply, a large buffer size means the computer plays your mix back a second, or fraction of a second, later than real time.
That amount of time is wiggle room for the computer to read ahead, and means you're less likely to have hiccups or crashes during playback.

Where computer resources are a factor, people generally record with small buffer/low latency, and mix with high buffer/high latency.