Emu XL-7 & MP-7 User's Group

Fwiw, very few people actually record at 24-bits, even today. The audio usually ends up in the 18-22 bit range. It is still very difficult to try to record anything at 24 bits without "clipping" the audio.

Yu should be able to get perfectly respectable and cd-quality recording at 16 bit/44.1 plus you have the added benefit of much less cpu load, smaller space etc. 


You can do that, but remember you will gain nothing by recording at a 
higher resolution with the XL-7 digitally. You could try recording the 
analogue outputs at 24bit, it will sound differant, better or worse..   
You might well have no choice, maybe you get the choice of 16 or 24.
Go for it, it should be fine 
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