Not to be difficult - but I disagree.

I currently use reason 2.5 (and have used all the versions of Reason)
and to my knowledge Reason does not dither/alias audio when exported
either as an entire song or as an individual track.
The only way the quality of the audio id degradated (dithered/aliased) is if
when exporting you _select_ a lower bit rate than what your original samples
are to begin with.  I've read the Reason manual (almost entirely) from front
to back, and there is nothing that indicates a degredation of signal when
exporting.  My ears tell me the same thing: no dithering or aliasing.

I suspect you monitors are fine.

However I use Reason differently than most people...
I run Reason 2.5 on a Mac G4 400, output each mixer from Reason to my Motu
828 analog output via firewire.  The output of my 828 goes to a mixing
board.  A second computer (Mac G3) runs Cubase sending midi to the G4
running Reason as slave program.  The purpose for doing this is because I
have music hardware that has to be triggered/controlled by midi also.
I simply use Reason as if it were another rack unit.

When I record my songs I have the SPDIF output of the mixing board running
back into the SPDIF in on the 828 sending it into the G4 via firewire.  I
record the song signal with Peak.  No degredation other than the negligable
digital to analog conversion from the 828 to the mixing baord, or by when I
want things to distort intentionally.

There could be obvious differences between what I'm doing and Rewire'ing
Reason through Logic that _could_ cause degredation.  However again - I
would doubt it.  Especially if you are exporting individual loops and then
importing them into Logic as an audio file in an audio track.

MK2    


on 5/30/03 3:28 PM, Andy Abang at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> So way back when, I asked a question about dithering along with several
> other mixdown questions; I learned (thanks Trust) that Reason dithers tracks
> to a certain rate when you export them.
> 
> So my question is - are you sacrificing much in the way of sound quality if
> you export them as such pre-mixdown / engineering / mastering? I can't
> notice much difference, but then... my monitors are shit. so i'm deciding if
> it might be better for me to rewire specific modules one by one into logic
> to engineer instead of exporting all the files.
> 
> thanks y'all.
> 
> ~andy
> 
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