Ableton Forum

So the audio that was imported was still 16 bit but my ableton is set to record at 24 Bit. The audio is not being recorded, so do I still have to adjust this parameter down from 24 bit to 16 bit if I am just bouncing with no effects at all other than the fades in the clips? I.e. should I switch it t...

Right, but I was confused if the output of the DAW would need to be dithered to reduce any new artifacts that could be introduced from the bit depth downsampling, since Ableton runs with 32 bit floating point and wasn't sure what that meant for the output in terms of how I would have to treat the re...

That's what I figured, I also have a bitter meter on the master in the new project with the fades and everything is topped out very distinctly at 16 bit on the master channel. It is a blank set, literally nothing on the track or master channel when rendering, even removed the bitter meter just in ca...

hey y'all Had my mastering engineer give me 16 bit masters but the fades were all wonky. I reimported the 16/44.1 masters into ableton and fixed the fades, but my question is do I set it to no dither now for the final at 16 bit? My sound engineering friend said this would be best, just want to doubl...