Plug-in upsampling on bounce/freeze/export

You can specify whether a VST or DirectX plug-in effect or instrument should be resampled at 2x the project sample rate when bouncing, rendering, freezing, exporting, etc. This is a global setting that affects all projects.

To globally enable/disable upsampling for a plug-in, click the FX icon in the upper left corner of a plug-in window, and select Upsample on Render on the drop-down menu.

When selected, at bounce time SONAR will upsample the incoming audio to 2x the project sample rate, process the plug-in at the new rate, and downsample the resulting output to the project sample rate.

Upsampling provides several benefits:

Allows plug-ins to process the source material at a higher level of precision.

Drastically reduces the likelihood of intersample clipping when you maximize the level.

Undesirable digital artifacts are shifted much further outside the range of human hearing.

Phase shift is drastically reduced.

Benefit from 96kHz processing without the hard disk and CPU strain that recording at 96kHz produces.

Non-linear processors, such as EQ and compressors, benefit from upsampling to lessen aliasing of high frequency components.

 

See:

Plug-in upsampling on bounce/freeze/export

Plug-in upsampling on playback

Plug-in upsampling global bypass

Using real-time effects

New features