A
atomictoyz
New member
Has anyone else got more information on this dilemma?
I have a Yamaha MD8 that I use for song writing and other self indulgent activities, I wanted to start planning an upgrade to an DAW because of space limitation. I started reading specs and details on all
these 24/96 DAW's and noticed that there is a wall built into them. Besides the fact that most advertise the highest bit rate, never advertise that it diminishes the" high" number of record hours advertised in other parts of the ads, you cannot master to CD-R if you have done all your work using the 24 bit word depth. The Yamaha, AW2816 and AW4416, both will let you use the burner, but it will drop the 8 LSB during the burning. So whats the point if that extra quality is going to get randomly truncated? On the Roland VS-2480, if you plan on making a CD with the onboard burner you better do all your work at 16/44.1 or the machine won't let you access the "mastering function". Certainly this all cannot be true!
Or can it?
If this is true then you looking at having to spend another $1000 to $1500 on something like a Masterlink or some PC based setup with a 24/96 pci card. The only other option I see if you bought a Sony CDRW33 or CDRW66 with Super Bit Mapping. I would like to hear comments, both good and bad, but consider someone who has a single income family of 4 with a studio (micro) the size of a small bedroom.
Thanks,
Dennis
P.S.
Tell Blue Bear I own both the MD8 and the Alesis 3630 and Im looking for some Yamaha ns-10m
studio monitors. :0)
I have a Yamaha MD8 that I use for song writing and other self indulgent activities, I wanted to start planning an upgrade to an DAW because of space limitation. I started reading specs and details on all
these 24/96 DAW's and noticed that there is a wall built into them. Besides the fact that most advertise the highest bit rate, never advertise that it diminishes the" high" number of record hours advertised in other parts of the ads, you cannot master to CD-R if you have done all your work using the 24 bit word depth. The Yamaha, AW2816 and AW4416, both will let you use the burner, but it will drop the 8 LSB during the burning. So whats the point if that extra quality is going to get randomly truncated? On the Roland VS-2480, if you plan on making a CD with the onboard burner you better do all your work at 16/44.1 or the machine won't let you access the "mastering function". Certainly this all cannot be true!
Or can it?
If this is true then you looking at having to spend another $1000 to $1500 on something like a Masterlink or some PC based setup with a 24/96 pci card. The only other option I see if you bought a Sony CDRW33 or CDRW66 with Super Bit Mapping. I would like to hear comments, both good and bad, but consider someone who has a single income family of 4 with a studio (micro) the size of a small bedroom.
Thanks,
Dennis
P.S.
Tell Blue Bear I own both the MD8 and the Alesis 3630 and Im looking for some Yamaha ns-10m
studio monitors. :0)
