Instruction Manual

1242 Dialog Reference
Audio Options dialog—General
• Dithering—choose between five available types of dithering.
• Source Bus(es)—choose the bus or sound card driver you want to use
to export your audio file.
• Mix Enables—choose all the different audio components you want to
include in your exported audio file. You usually include everything. If
you include either Track FX or Bus FX, it’s a good idea to add an extra
measure to the end of your project to contain any reverb tails that your
effects produce. Checking Fast Bounce causes the audio export
process to go as fast as possible, as opposed to exporting in real-time.
The Audible bounce option is only available when in real-time bounce
mode (when Fast Bounce is unchecked). When Audible bounce is
unchecked, no audio output will be heard during the bounce process.
When in real-time bounce mode (Fast Bounce unchecked) and Audible
bounce is enabled, you can hear the output of the mixdown.
Note: Depending on the gainstages used in the project and the
mixdown options selected–such as bouncing with source category
assigned to Tracks, or with mute/solo or automation disabled in the
bounce settings or while freezing tracks–the output may be louder or
softer than during normal playback. Please be sure to turn down the
master output level before using real-time audible bounce under these
scenarios to avoid the possibility of speaker damage.
Audio Options dialog—General
The Options-Audio command opens the Audio Options dialog box.
Choose the General tab to control the following options:
Playback Timing Master and Record Timing Master
These two options determine which sound cards should control timing for
the song, if you’re using multiple wave drivers for playback or recording.
Note that if you’ve got two wave drivers, but all audio tracks are playing on
only one wave driver, then that driver will be the timing master no matter
what you choose.
Every sound card’s clock crystal is slightly different, which causes minor
differences in the actual playback rate on each card. These differences may
lead to slight synchronization problems if you use one card for recording
and a different one for playback. Multiple wave drivers on the same card will
not have sync problems.