However, dither can be "shaped" to make it avoid lower frequencies, making it less audible to humans.ĭither uses extra CPU power, and generally isn't necessary. This gives the signal greater dynamic range than the lower bit depth allows, and can be perceived as improved, smoother sound quality, but it always comes at the price of added background noise-which, when audible, sounds like tape hiss. By exploiting a feature of human hearing-the ability to distinguish signal from background noise-dither preserves the higher bit-depth signal within the confines of the lower bit-depth format. This checkbox controls whether to add dither when playing audio that's encoded at a higher bit depth than the chosen output format.ĭither is quiet broadband noise which is added in a manner intended to mask quantization noise, which is the distortion which is sometimes audible when playing digital audio at a lower bit depth than the original.
Note that this option is not available with some output modes such as ASIO - ASIO architecture doesn't support variable data formats by design, the format that needs to be sent is determined by the driver. You should refer to your soundcard's documentation to find the optimal setting using bit depth higher than supported by your hardware might work but will not improve output audio quality in any way and may degrade performance. Use of buffer lengths below 500ms is not recommended.Ĭontrols the audio data format passed to the operating system / audio drivers / etc.
WARNING: Setting too low buffer length may cause certain visualizations to stop working correctly.
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