Buchalter forum metric integer mode:

"Well, I can tell you that do a FW loopback in the MIO (e.g. you Set the direct out of DAW 1 strip to FW 1) and compare the signal coming back to the signal being sent to the unit, it is exactly the same for both floating point mode and integer mode. So, Integer Mode does not have any effect on any of the parts of the stack that we (Metric Halo) have control over. The being said, it is possible that the DAW or Playback app is doing something different between Integer and Floating point transport, so it is *possible* that there is a difference. But I would submit that if there is a difference, it means that the app in question has a bug somewhere. 24-bit Integer is exactly and losslessly representable in32-bit float."