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Originally Posted by Diabelli
Hello,
all I do is classical solo recordings, and I've switched from ProTools to Reaper recently. Why I did so might be a question for some other occasion, but - being new to the Reaper world - I would appreciate some input from more experienced users.
1. I see that "Render" does what I used to do by "Bounce to disk" in PT.
a) When downsampling via Render, what library is used?
b) Is there some dither when converting from 24 to 16 bit?
2. Is it preferable to put the fades (in/out) on the master track, or on the tracks with recording (as I have only two).
3. Same question about automation - would it in case with two tracks only work better on the master track, or on the two tracks with the recording (as these send directly to the master AND the chain of two tracks with effects)?
For 2. and 3., I would normally prefer grouping tracks with audio, and do the automation (envelopes) there, but - from what I read on the forum - I have an impression that in Reaper many users seem to favor working on the master track.
Thx!!!
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#1 Yes
#1a Not sure off the top of my head, sorry. I know SOX is considered the most transparent. I've never heard an artifact from Reaper's SRC though. I'm familiar with the older crude algorithms that were pretty glaring though. Fair question based on that. (Stock Protools was one of those crude examples too.)
#1b Dither options are available yes. Probably a few different ones. I'll assume you know to only add noise like this when making a 16 bit reduction for that CD edition.
#2 Semantics here probably...
It's true that Reaper has universal tracks that can be routed without restriction. That means you can use any track as a source, aux bus (sub group), or master hardware output. (Or all 3 at the same time.)
However... the Reaper "Master bus" is a dedicated hardware output bus that isn't a normal track. It's sort of vestigial from an early very simple Reaper that had stereo tracks and an output bus. You can now route as you please with universal tracks but that "Master bus" sticks around as a master hardware output bus only. You can't put audio items into the master track or do anything else like send from it.
#3 See #2
What novices "favor" doing with the master bus is loading it up with all their limiter/booster, saturation/distortion plugins because they haven't figured out how to mix from working the individual source tracks yet.