Ableton exporting

[billcarroll]

I'll offer some more information here.

Andrew from Cytomic advises working at 88.2 kHz or 96 kHz for various reasons quoted many times on these and other forums.

Also, it makes sense to work at 32-bit, and then send 32-bit files to your mastering engineer. This allows the mastering engineer to take care of dithering, one time when they are finished. If you export at 24 bit, you need to dither (according to Ian Shepard, Paul Frindle, and others).

http://productionadvice.co.uk/when-to-dither/

It would be cool to have all of this discussion as a sticky somewhere since this question seems to come up about once a month on various forums.

[stone123]

Thanks! Conclusion: I keep on exporting mixed projects at 24bit/48kHz.

Thank you all for clearing things up. The bits and depths were a bit smoggy areas before this, but now I got at least some things cleared out and can continue to do the main thing.

More questions coming up later, but in another thread. Let's make some good music meanwhile!

[zethus909]

the sample rate needs to be "more than" twice the max freq.....if it's just twice the max then it wont provide enough data to reconstruct the wavelengh

if the highest frequency per second (in a given analog signal) is 1, and you have a sampling rate of 2,
in order to extrapolate the correct frequency of the waveform...we need to have a sample both on the positive side and the negative side but then at least one more to get the slope of the waveform...so then that will tell us the correct wavelength....and then that will be the right representation of the actual frequency (per second) of the audio signal

because if we get two points only for one cycle...you can draw a line between them with an infinite number of different slopes...you need that 3rd point...to get the full cycle picture.

right? thats kindof how i understand it in an easy way