Bit depths for playback

Most sound cards can play audio at 16-bit or 24-bit resolution, with a few sound cards supporting 18-bit and 20-bit resolution. When your project contains files with different bit depths Music Creator plays them at the bit depth that your sound card is currently set to. Because Music Creator can play projects that contain files of different bit depths, you don’t have to convert 16-bit files to 24 bits to play them with other 24-bit files, saving significant storage space.

When you first install Music Creator, the Wave Profiler profiles your sound card at all the bit depths that the sound card supports, so when you change the playback bit depth, you don’t need to run the Wave Profiler again (you do need to relaunch Music Creator).

Here’s how to change the playback bit depth for a project:

To change playback bit depth

1.	Go to Edit > Preferences > Audio - Driver Settings and choose the bit depth you want to use in the Audio Driver Bit Depth field.

2.

Click OK.

To rewrite audio files at different bit depths

1.	Use the Utilities > Change Audio Format command to open the Change Audio Format dialog box.

2.	Choose a new bit depth in the New Bit Depth field.

3.	If you’re changing to 16 bits, you can select or clear the Apply Dither check box. Dithering means to add a certain audio signal to 16 bit audio to make it sound more like it did as a higher-bit signal.

4.

Click OK.

Music Creator rewrites the audio tracks in your project at the new bit depth.