Lose quality by bouncing & then importing audio?

[brandin]

I'm thinking of doing some sub-mixing (if that's what you call it) to utilize more tracks.

I'm working on a session (main session) that's 24bit, 48khz.

I'm going to be creating a new session, recording some vocals, and then bouncing those tracks at 24 bit/48khz/mono summed.

My question is this: When I import the boucned audio tracks back into the main session, will I be losing any sound quality?

Thanks!

[hubad]

Well back in day, analog multi-track bounces there was a loss of quality. But bouncing in the digital domain , the degradation is miniscule at best. So technically no.

When tracks are low, its even considered normal to bounce all tracks to a stereo mix if you run out of tracks or plug-in capability.

[Shan]

When I import the boucned audio tracks back into the main session, will I be losing any sound quality?

Thanks!

No. In fact, they will even null with the original.

Best trick so far to get more tracks going is to stream them using Ableton LIVE via ReWire. Search some of my old posts. I explain how to do this to a few people.

Shane