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Hello,

Win 8, 64, Asio4All v2.x, focusrite 6i6
I have 24bits in Ableton 9 Suite settings. In mixdown popup i have 24bits settings.
Why after mixdown I have "Converting bit depth" popup (with render status bar)?

All I can tell you is that it's normal.

What's actually going on? Maybe someone can volunteer some info on that.

Maybe Ableton is rendering mixdown in 32 and after that is converting to 24? But it would be strange as long recordings are made in 24 bits (in Settings>Record tab I have 24 bits). I don't know...

I have just checked. Unless I am very much mistaken, that message does not come up when rendering to 32 bit.

Which offers support to the theory that it does all the calculations in 32 bit before saving the file

re:dream wrote:I have just checked. Unless I am very much mistaken, that message does not come up when rendering to 32 bit.

Which offers support to the theory that it does all the calculations in 32 bit before saving the file

As the Live internal processing bit depth is 32bits that would be the case.

Ah indeed. That's it then

cool

And what about settings>record tab? We can choose there bit depth of our wave recordings. So is it like: Ableton records in 24bits but it is adding 8 bits of silence to work in 32?