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Hi all,
Couldn't decide whether to post this here, or in the soundcard forum. I suspect the solution is somewhere in SONAR, so I'll ask here and hope one of you enlightened folks can lend a brother a hand...
Scenario: recording tracks in SONAR thru a DIO 2448 soundcard (simple so far). The signal comes from tracks previously recorded on a Roland VS at a 44.1k sample rate (of which I'm certain) and a bit depth of 24-bits (which I'm beginning to question, at least whether or not it's being transferred OUT at that format...)
OK... when I've got the 2448 configured to run in 16-bit I/O mode on the windows mixer panel, and set SONAR's "audio card bit depth" audio setting to 16, all is right with the world, with the exception of the fact that the tracks are stored in the VS at 24-bit, and I'm assuming it's getting shaved down to 16 by the DIO, please correct me if I'm wrong there. I can monitor the recording, it records nicely, yada yada. Great. At this point, it doesn't matter if I have the SONAR project file bit-depth set to 16 or 24 (another of my assumptions is that in this scenario, it would be pointless to SET it to 24 if everything is getting converted on the way in, since I don't intend to record additional tracks, I'm essentially wasting space storing a 24-bit version of these tracks that would end up being sonically identical at 16-bit. Correct? Not even close??)
Everything I'm reading says all of the components in this chain can operate at 24-bit. But when I change the soundcard setting ("enable S/PDIF 24-bit I/O checked"), start with a new SONAR project with the file depth set to 24-bit (after re-staring SONAR), and start to record a track... CRAP-tacular results. I can HEAR the track fine if I monitor the digital in via the mixer setting, but what ends up in SONAR is a mess. Gobs of static/distortion with the slightest hint of the track hidden in there.
Anybody have any idea what gives? I re-ran the "wave profiler" thing when setting up the 24-bit configuration, as instructed. My results still suck.
I don't know if this helps, but I get no windows audio when the card is set to 24-bit, and set as the preferred device like it does in 16-bit mode. I figured that was due to the fact that those (the "dings" and what-not) are 8 or 16-bit wav files, or something like that.
The SONAR version is 1.3, and I'm running under Windows/98 second edition.
I beseech thee, help me save my 24-bit tracks! Any assistance is greatly appreciated!
Couldn't decide whether to post this here, or in the soundcard forum. I suspect the solution is somewhere in SONAR, so I'll ask here and hope one of you enlightened folks can lend a brother a hand...
Scenario: recording tracks in SONAR thru a DIO 2448 soundcard (simple so far). The signal comes from tracks previously recorded on a Roland VS at a 44.1k sample rate (of which I'm certain) and a bit depth of 24-bits (which I'm beginning to question, at least whether or not it's being transferred OUT at that format...)
OK... when I've got the 2448 configured to run in 16-bit I/O mode on the windows mixer panel, and set SONAR's "audio card bit depth" audio setting to 16, all is right with the world, with the exception of the fact that the tracks are stored in the VS at 24-bit, and I'm assuming it's getting shaved down to 16 by the DIO, please correct me if I'm wrong there. I can monitor the recording, it records nicely, yada yada. Great. At this point, it doesn't matter if I have the SONAR project file bit-depth set to 16 or 24 (another of my assumptions is that in this scenario, it would be pointless to SET it to 24 if everything is getting converted on the way in, since I don't intend to record additional tracks, I'm essentially wasting space storing a 24-bit version of these tracks that would end up being sonically identical at 16-bit. Correct? Not even close??)
Everything I'm reading says all of the components in this chain can operate at 24-bit. But when I change the soundcard setting ("enable S/PDIF 24-bit I/O checked"), start with a new SONAR project with the file depth set to 24-bit (after re-staring SONAR), and start to record a track... CRAP-tacular results. I can HEAR the track fine if I monitor the digital in via the mixer setting, but what ends up in SONAR is a mess. Gobs of static/distortion with the slightest hint of the track hidden in there.
Anybody have any idea what gives? I re-ran the "wave profiler" thing when setting up the 24-bit configuration, as instructed. My results still suck.
I don't know if this helps, but I get no windows audio when the card is set to 24-bit, and set as the preferred device like it does in 16-bit mode. I figured that was due to the fact that those (the "dings" and what-not) are 8 or 16-bit wav files, or something like that.
The SONAR version is 1.3, and I'm running under Windows/98 second edition.
I beseech thee, help me save my 24-bit tracks! Any assistance is greatly appreciated!