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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I'm pretty sure I went into this a long time ago, but just for
clarification, the entire signal path of the XL-7 after the resamplers
is 24-bit.  The samples are 16-bit.  The filters are 24, the FX are 24.
 S/PDIF might be 20, might be 24, but you should *certainly* record
44.1/24 off the S/PDIF and only ever record off the analog mains if,
for some reason, you like the hiss of analog or the non-linearities of
the DACs.

And, a quick reason for 16 bit samples and 24 bit signal path:
one 16 bit sound = 16 bits
two 16 bit sounds = 17 bits
four 16 bit sounds = 18 bits
eight 16 bit sounds = 19 bits
... 16=20, 32=21, 64=22,
128 16 bit sounds =23 bits!

And that's not even counting filters (which can go past 24 and into
distortion even on one sound!) and the effects section.

-Aaron

--- oneal.patrick@... wrote:

> 
> 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 
> Check this page out
> 
> 
>  
> Yahoo! Groups Links
> 
> 
> 
>  
> 
> 
> 


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I think think that clears that one once and for all...
Gonz


--- In xl7@yahoogroups.com, Aaron Eppolito <synthesis77@...> wrote:
>
> I'm pretty sure I went into this a long time ago, but just for
> clarification, the entire signal path of the XL-7 after the 
resamplers
> is 24-bit.  The samples are 16-bit.  The filters are 24, the FX are 
24.
>  S/PDIF might be 20, might be 24, but you should *certainly* record
> 44.1/24 off the S/PDIF and only ever record off the analog mains if,
> for some reason, you like the hiss of analog or the non-linearities 
of
> the DACs.
> 
> And, a quick reason for 16 bit samples and 24 bit signal path:
> one 16 bit sound = 16 bits
> two 16 bit sounds = 17 bits
> four 16 bit sounds = 18 bits
> eight 16 bit sounds = 19 bits
> ... 16=20, 32=21, 64=22,
> 128 16 bit sounds =23 bits!
> 
> And that's not even counting filters (which can go past 24 and into
> distortion even on one sound!) and the effects section.
> 
> -Aaron
> 
> --- oneal.patrick@... wrote:
> 
> > 
> > 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 
> > Check this page out
> > 
> > 
> >  
> > Yahoo! Groups Links
> > 
> > 
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > 
> > 
> 
> 
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