Layla 24/96 Question...32-Bit Input ???

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mark4man

MoonMix Studios
Hello...

My old (not really old, but older) Layla 24/96 is being used in a secondary workstation for mastering, primarily to recapture stereo mixes from my primary workstation, post processing. My primary workstation is set up with a Lynx Aurora 8 / AES16 combo...which I recently learned has 32-Bit drivers. My DAWs (SONAR 5 & WaveLab 5) are capable of sending a 32-Bit integer summed stereo output to the audio interface.

So now I'm wondering...can the Layla 24/96 do the same thing? The last 24/96 driver issue prior to going to the 3G...were they 32-Bit drivers; & can the DAC in the 24/96 receive a 32-Bit signal?

If so...what happens at that point? i.e., how is that 32-Bit signal processed internally within the 24/96, prior to being sent to the hardware outputs?

Thanks very much,

mark4man
 
You're confusing the driver bit depth and the audio bit depth. They are seperate things.

If 32 bit summed means 16 bits per side of a stereo file then any moden card should handle it.

If you tried to send a 32bit mono audio file through the converters on the layla I'm sure it would have a fit.

So the limitations of the converters are what they are regardless of the sound card driver bit depth.

F.S.
 
I'm not confusing anything w/ anything, Freudian. There is no such thing as bit depth as it relates to the drivers...except in the sense that the driver command codes are structured to accept a DAW ouput of a given resolution. My question was asking if the Layla 24/96 accepted 32-Bit at the input (as output by the software); & I received a reply back from Marcel (@ Echo Audio) that it does. I also asked how that signal is then processed within the Layla; & his reply was that it was reconverted to 24-Bit (& I'm assuming that's at a point prior to tha DAC, since there's no such thing as a 32-Bit converter.)

Thanks,

mark4man
 
Sorry, I thought when you wrote "can the DAC in the 24/96 receive a 32-Bit signal?" that you maybe thought the d/a converter would play straight 32 bit files because of 32 bit drivers. I should have read further:)

It would be interesting hear how well the soundcard dithers compared to playing a track dithered by sonar or wavelab.


I was unaware that the layla would dither internaly, but then I never go above 24 bit.

F.S.
 
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