the vast majority is 48k minimal.
CD’s Were the only thing 44.1 and there are people today that weren’t even alive when those were the thing. Furthermore - I think a Kemper user can easily set up sample rate - I mean look at all the other Kemper features that aren’t “plug and play”. This thing is deep. Default it to 44.1 but have a 48 option. Protools is the industry standard - so should have that in mind - and why put excessive strain on the host computer recording. ALSO - sample rate conversion is re-sampling - might as well go analog… so this feature is great, but if it can’t do 48 - it’s worthless to many.
Sorry so harsh - but “plug and play” translates to an excuse to me.
But thanks for the “kind of usb” option.
The Profiler has been designed for running on a sample rate of 44.1 kHz. This gives us a determined amount of calculation power and thus a stable system for the user.
Internally we utilize sampling rates up to the MHz region, where needed. (Maybe in contrast to some PlugIns, that sound better when driven with higher sample rates from the outside.
Therefore the Profiler would not gain better sound quality at higher rates. For guitar stacks with its speaker high end roll-off even 32 kHz or 24 kHz sampling rate would be totally sufficient. Many users use the HighCut to eliminate very high frequencies.
If we provided selectable sample rates for USB, we would utilize sample rate converters as well, as we already do with S/PDIF, we had to use an SRC for each USB input and output.
That truly would put a some strain on the USB interface, but mainly on our system , which was originally meant to be a digital guitar amp.
I am sure that SRCs running in a DAW in a pure software environment will not cause significant strain.
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.