dithering to 16bit

[Mr. Tingle]

If I want to dither down to 16bit from 24bit using a VST (say MDA dither), should I set Tracktions export bit rate to 16 or 24 bit?

I ask because I want the VST to do the dithering, not tracktion.

what do you do?

[IIRs]

16 bit

make sure Tracktions own dither is turned off (settings page)

[Mr. Tingle]

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[peteralston]

16 bit

make sure Tracktions own dither is turned off (settings page)

is that the 'add noise to avoid denormalisation' thing??? Cos I can't see where else there is a dither setting.

Peter

[peteralston]

to anybody who's interested I found it - it is in Settings - then Audio Devices, and then click on the audio device you are using, 3 'radio' buttons should then appear, one is which is a dithering option

cheers

Peter

[davor]

I ask because I want the VST to do the dithering, not tracktion.

Where do we place the VST plugin that does the dithering, as it should be post-fader? Is there such option in traction?

[Hypertone]

Correct me if I'm wrong but the way I understand dither is this: Reducing word length from 24 bit to 16 bit is not dithering. Dithering is introducing shaped noise into the signal, so if you want to dither you should put a dither plug into the chain and just save it as a 16 bit file. Then it's "dithered".

[jtxx000]

It does but it also reduces the word length to 16 bit and any adjustments afterwords defeates the point of using dithering in the first place. I usually master in a seperate file so as for the slider I just render it with 24 bits then master dither and leave the master volume alone.