I don’t believe this thing. The DAWs should not have differernce in the sound quality. If we talk about only the DAWs. Their built in effects and instruments would cause difference yes. And also maybe the different dithering algorythms on rendering, if you render lower than 32bit. Plus consider there would be a difference in how each DAW programmer implemented the soundcard drivers. This might cause a difference. But I saw tests when people mixed the same audio files in different daws with same setting than they did phase cancellation test with the rendered ones. The result was 0. So if the DAWs engines count at same bith depth and render at same bitdepth, there would be no audible difference.
Nope! It did not work. I just exported same audio from two daws. Then I inverted phase on one track but sound goes through.
I don’t want to argue with you. Let everyone decide for themselves.
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there are a few different quality settings you can configure on the master in most daws, some daws apply dithering to the audio render which would cause the waveform to be slightly different if there was no dithering in the output of another daw. but while the audio might be different, does it really sound different to human ears?
I’m not sure… but if you clip the track in one daw (for science) and compare it to another daw - then it might sound different
Lots of voodoo involved in this subject.
Some are designed to sound different, case in point, Harrison MixBus.
Another example is Ableton Live, in its default preference state it warps all audio files. Not only does warping affect CPU useage, but warped audio (even if it isn’t time stretched) has artifacts. You can hear them more when many channels are stacked, but it’s definitely there. I’ll only warp as needed.
In theory though, tracking w no fx into 2 different daw’s w the same converters ought to sound identical.
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