Theoretically, should playback be as good in Dorico as in Cubase, once the adjustments are done? The quality of the bounce?

There will always be a market for snake oil. I used to do a bit of “moonlighting” electronics assembly work for a guy who had built up quite a reputation among “audiophools” for his hand-built audio amps (made with specially selected brands of components, of course). He had no delusions about the …

You mean 96kbps (kilobits per second) vs 48kbps? As in MP3 encoding (or some other compressed format)? 96kbps MP3 sounds pretty awful.

As I said, there are some minor technical reasons, non of which really matter to the end user. (Also wordclocks for sampling are a little more stable at 96. And MIDI-Jitter is something else than D/A-Jitter! since your DAW has to render it in some sort of linear process, it still matters, althoug…

If you use a VST with a round ribbon system, it’s not guaranteed that the same sample will always be triggered at the same point. This and other randomnesses (algorithmic reverb) that can be implemented make it quite unlikely, that you will have a sample-exact copy with each render.

I didn’t say you could hear anything above 20kHz as “a frequency”. But that doesn’t mean your brain doesn’t react to it. The frequency content of musical instruments up to 100kHz is sound-through-the-air transmission. Otherwise, microphones wouldn’t detect it. The point is that ears are not the on…

No 96k samples per second vs 48k (with the same bit depth per sample of course). Sorry for any confusion (and the sloppy proof reading).

This is getting into the weeds of exactly how VST playback is initialized and terminated. I would be very surprised if there is no way to start playback from a known, repeatable state - otherwise software debugging (and QA regression testing!) would be next to impossible.

I think to find out if Cubase and Dorico create the same audio file, a good place to start is to export a Dorico file twice and see if it is exactly the same. If this is not the case, you know that it will be impossible to determine the original hypothesis. (Although it doesn’t necessarily mean th…

Uhmmm… unless I’m missing something cochlea is the only human organ which converts vibrations to what we hear as sound*. While true that sound can travel through bone (in fact, inner ear beyond the ear drums ARE just bones), the question is what frequencies cochlea is able to convert to signals wh…

I once told my doctor that I could hear better when he put a tuning fork to the bone behind my ear than I could when he held the tuning fork next to my ear. He sent me to have my tonsils and adenoids removed. :frowning:

Playback : Dorico vs Cubase

Dorico

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It would be perfection, but we have to wait. I just wrote at least this yesterday: