[Ardour-Users] Saving disk space

Axel 'the C.L.A.' Müller axel-mueller-74 at web.de
Sat Oct 1 03:17:38 PDT 2016


On Sat, 1 Oct 2016 10:27:55 +0200
Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf at alice-dsl.net> wrote:

> On Sat, 1 Oct 2016 10:08:55 +0200, Alf Haakon Lund wrote:
> >I guess for my main use of Ardour to edit stuff for airing on radio,
> >the extra hifi bits doesn't make much sense anyway.
> 
> Using floating point makes much sense when editing. 
> 
> >I guess for my main use of Ardour to edit stuff for airing on radio,
> >the extra hifi bits doesn't make much sense anyway.
> 
> Not for broadcasting, but for editing floating point makes much sense.

I think it should be pointed out that this setting only affects the
audio file format. If switching to a lower bit depth, Ardour will still
use 32 bit float internally for processing. So there is no real gain
importing 16 bit audio files at a higher bit depth. Only exception
where the audio file bit depth might matter a little again is when you
plan to do internal bounces. But then you could still switch to a
higher bit depth after the imports have been done.

And export has it's own file format settings anyway...




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