Specifications

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DigiRack Plug-Ins Guide60

If you want, you can choose not to use the

Dither plug-in and instead utilize the full 24-bit

resolution of Pro Tools’ digital output, depend-

ing on your destination device. If you are using

a 24-bit audio interface (such as the 192 I/O,

96 I/O, or 888|24 I/O) and are outputting audio

to an analog destination, we recommend that

you do not use dither.

Noise Shaping

This button engages or disengages Noise Shap-

ing. Noise shaping is on when the button is

highlighted in blue. See “Noise Shaping” on

page 59 for more information.

POW-r Dither

The POW-r Dither plug-in is an advanced type

of dither that provides optimized word length

reduction. It is designed for ﬁnal-stage critical

mixdown and mastering tasks where the highest

possible ﬁdelity is desired when reducing bit

depth. For more information on dithering, see

“Dither” on page 58.

POW-r Dither Controls

Bit Resolution

Use this pop-up menu to choose either 16- or

20-bit resolutions for POW-r Dither processing.

Set this control to the maximum bit resolution

of your destination.

16-bit Recommended for output to devices with

a maximum resolution of 16-bits, such as DAT

and CD recorders.

20-bit Recommended for output to devices that

support a full 20-bit recording data path.

The DigiRack Dither plug-in only provides

eight channels of uncorrelated dithering

noise. If DigiRack Dither is used on more

than eight tracks, the dithering noise begins

to repeat and dither performance is im-

paired. For example, if two Quad DigiRack

Dithers are used, both Quad instances of

Dither will have all of their dither noise un-

correlated. However, any additional in-

stances of the Dither plug-in will begin to

repeat the dithering noise.

Refer to the Pro Tools

Reference Guide for

details on using the Dither plug-in during

mixdown.

POW-r Dither plug-in

The POW-r Dither plug-in does not run on

third party applications that use DAE.

The multichannel TDM version of the

POW-r Dither plug-in is not supported at

192 kHz. Use the multi-mono TDM or

RTAS version instead.