USB audio at 48kHz

    Quote from BayouTexan

    Sample Rate Converter? This is all beginning to sound like "Liquid Sampling" is coming to your favorite DAW. :/


    I know you can resample from 96k to 48k or 44.1k but can you up-scale from 44.1k to 48k with no problem, or does the DAW handle that? Like if I set my project to 48k, then any lower sample with be upscaled to that 48k?


    Yes. Liquid Sampling is quite an appropriate term.


    Upscaling is a standard technique similar to downscaling.

    It is even a bit easier, as it does not require an anti-aliasing filter. It's just interpolation.


    On most DAWs you can import 44.1 k files to a 48 k and they are automatically resampled. And vice versa.

    Logic does that same resampling in realtime during recording.

    thanks for all the explanation. what I had mentioned was only a suggestion. Btw, I was very pleased with this feature (audio interface), even though it is designed for 44.1 . I think this feature just makes kemper more versatile. For the moment, i kept my scarlett in the box 😄


    here is another suggestion. If you have time, i aprecciate if you read and think about it

    USB Output independent

    Quote from BayouTexan

    Sample Rate Converter? This is all beginning to sound like "Liquid Sampling" is coming to your favorite DAW. :/


    I know you can resample from 96k to 48k or 44.1k but can you up-scale from 44.1k to 48k with no problem, or does the DAW handle that? Like if I set my project to 48k, then any lower sample with be upscaled to that 48k?

    Yes, it is all just simple mathematics. It still involves a great many calculations because you are dealing with an audio stream with millions of samples. This all involves a burden on the KPA processor.

    Quote from ckemper

    I am aware that Protools is one industry standard DAW. I am sure they are watching the innovations of another industry standard DAW, that is Apple Logic. The latter have managed to implement realtime SRC for recording and playback a while ago. And Aggregated Driver, to combine two or more audio interfaces. To me, this developement was obvious, and just a matter of time for such big companies. Protools will have to follow, if they feel the request of the users.


    I would feel a bit old-school to fill this gap on our side, while a much more intelligent solution is obvious and visible.

    I'm currently testing the Profiler audio device in Pro Tools within a 48kHz session via the PT Aggregate I/O and it's working fine. I'm using the clock source of my MacBook Pro's built-in audio device currently (probably not the greatest but I'd only ever use this setup in a pinch anyway) but monitoring back through the Kemper headphone output. Pro Tools has done this for a while it's just not as user friendly as how Logic implements it as you were saying. The latency of course is a bit sub-optimal but your direct monitoring option helps.