important question

[kale]

Does sound card quality and actual hardware specs effect how something will sound when recorded inside ableton live? I don't mean from a microphone, but recording tracks through the mixing process (bouncing) as well as the final export.. thanks.

[efence]

No unless some sound comes or goes out of the box.

[__________]

No unless some sound comes or goes out of the box.

What?

OP: your soundcard basically just passes on the waveform from your DAW/media player/etc to your speakers. Your mixing and final bounce-down of the tune is completely unaffected by your soundcard. There's a chance a good soundcard might help you mix better (since you would theoretically hear the waveform more accurately) but compared to decent monitors, acoustic treatment, good ears, etc, the affect of your soundcard is minimal. All the actual mixing together of tracks is done by your CPU and RAM - you could bounce the same quality tune on a system with a £2000 soundcard and a system with no soundcard at all.

As long as your soundcard has a good signal to noise ratio (e.g its not a built-in laptop soundcard) and enough inputs and outputs I wouldn't worry about it

[Samuel_L_Damnson]

another quality £10 post.

[kale]

much appreciated, thank you.