Simple yes/no question about Dithering

[Randaji]

This should be an easy yes/no question (unless I've really got my head up my arse).

I have recorded many songs in Sonar 2.2/3.0 with "Apply Dither" enabled in the Audio > Advanced settings. I wasn't aware of this setting.

I want to only dither during mastering which I've not done yet.

Can I uncheck (disable) the "Apply Dither" setting and know that no dithering has been applied to my already recorded tracks?

Essentially, I don't know *when* the dither is applied. I can't find in the manual if the dithering is applied during playback or if tracks recorded with dithering enabled actually contain dithering on disk.

Thanks for any help you can give!

 

[Qwerty]

Yes, turn it off it's ugly.

The dither is only applied when you export the audio tracks out of Sonar.

Ciao,

Q.

 

[Randaji]

Thanks Qwerty.

Are you suggesting the Sonar dithering algorithm is crap?

Thanks for the help.

 

[Qwerty]

Nope - I'm telling you it's crap!

FWIW - Ron Kuper, CTO over at Cakewalk has said as much in their online forums. Pop over there and do a search for 'dither + Ron'...

Q.

 

[monty]

...very interesting...