On Monday, April 1, 2002, at 01:26 , Haven Siguenza wrote: > Ronald C.F. Antony wrote > >> In LAMP 5.0, dither is no longer a plug-in, and I'm not sure I'm >> thrilled about that change (actually, I'm quite sure that I'm not >> thrilled.) >> >> What's the reasoning behind this change? Also, during a bounce >> the file first seems to be written, then dithered. Does that >> mean first a 24bit file is created, then it's dithered down to >> 16bit? > > that is a bit disturbing. can you turn off the dither? > I ask because perhaps a person may want to use Waves IDR, (L1) The issue is not that one can't turn off the dither, but that one can't turn it on. Dither seems to be only available now in the bounce pop-up panel, and it seems to be applied in a separate step after the file is written, which means the temporary disk space requirements are higher than one might otherwise expect. The biggest problem is that there's no way to switch live between different dither/noise shaping versions to check which sounds the best for a particular track... Ronald ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~ "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man." G.B. Shaw | rcfa @ cubiculum . com | NeXT-mail welcome