So, I imported Periphery’s song ‘Insomnia’, which I know for a fact that reaches the ceiling of 0dB, into the sample editor just to experiment. Curiously the meter in the output track only reaches -6.020dB which interestingly corresponds to a half power decrease.
I think that it’s probably related to the sampling properties of Renoise.
Can someone explain to me the reason for this phenomenon? And is there something you can change in Renoise preferences/settings to avoid it?
The thread talks about rendering to sample, but a lot of the same stuff applies. Essentially, there’s a -6dB headroom on every track in Renoise. If you want to avoid this, then you need to apply a 6dB gain boost at some point.