24 bit Asio Driver ?

Hi !

I´ve just bought the UR28M.
i like the sound quality :slight_smile:
i have a pair of Adam Audio ´s S3a with a Adam audio sub12.
there are 2 things that cound be bettered…
signal to noise ratio, and… i don´t know why… the asio driver is 24 bit… not 32 bit … is this normal ?

All the best,

Paulo Medeira

Hello Paulo,


What do you mean with 24 ASIO driver ? It has a 32-bit driver and a 64-bit operating system driver. That has nothing todo with the sound quality.

Cheers,

Chris

24 bit device resolution / driver comunication :
on nuendo/cubase you can´t see that.
but on sanplitude and in other you can… :
16 / 24 / 32 bit device resolution / driver comunication
you can change between modes .
on the RME hardware, the drivers can also work in 32 bit resolution… ( float , i guess )
even o the new drivers of m-audio and avid, they also can word in 32bit resolution…
it´s a bit strange happenning this limitation in the UR28M…
nothing to say about the sound quality. i´ts great.
may only be about the driver optimization on the OS…

All the best,

Paulo Medeira

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HI !

No it´s just a matter or asio hardware - sotware comunication . RME , Avid , M-audio comunicate the asio driver in 32 bit… not in the old 24 bit… as the old drivers from digidesign had once… ( 24 bit )
yes , the driver works well… but … still is a bit strange… :slight_smile:

Cheers,


PM

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i also use Samplitude pro 11.
on the driver setup you can see and change the driver mode communication / resolution…
but on OSX you also can see that in audio midi setup.
it says: 24bit interger in output and on input…
on other brands you can see 32bit …
why ? i dont know…

Cheers,

PM

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well… dont know technical details …but…
it migt be something to do with 32 bit floating point and 24 bit fixed point … the old one :slight_smile:
it might be only the way the asio driver communicates with the audio applications…
but still… everybody is abandoning 24bit fixed point… even avid pro tools … that always laughed about the 32 bit floating point supporters… went that way …

Cheers,


PM