I'd go analog. I'm curious why you have to keep the projects in 48k though? Have you already recorded many audio parts at that rate?
yes, all the other instruments are recorded in 48k, and after me there will be more recordings in 48k.
so sad that the kpa doens't give the choice to choose 48k 
yes, all the other instruments are recorded in 48k, and after me there will be more recordings in 48k.
so sad that the kpa doens't give the choice to choose 48k
I'm one of the users on here who would love 48k and slave mode I'm hoping this will come in a very near future update 
I would go analog. If you down sample to 44.1, there is absolutely no benefit to trying to upsample back to 48. In fact, given the vast majority of music consumption is MP3, or "CD" quality 44.1, unsure of what the benefit is of tracking at 48.
Why do you use 48 kHz at all?
Why do you use 48 kHz at all?
I was wondering the same. I can only guess that either they do a lot of video production or they use a DAW which was initially rooted in video production. Seems to me that recording at 48 and then down-sampling would result in a worse end product than staying in 44.1 the whole time.
Why do you use 48 kHz at all?
Hmm ... better sound, more harmonic overtones. All the music and movie industry wants at least 48Khz. You can not only produce for a CD today. A 48Khz mix is always better than the same mix with 44.1Khz. And maybe at the end a little more future security, for the time you have invested in the song.
This has been discussed multiple times on these forums! This thread had some good answers from Engineer Kemper:
SPDIF setting
One of the outcomes of the thread was that if you want to sync between 44.1 and 48 khz, integrate an external SRC into your setup like the Behringer UltraMatch Pro.
Hmm ... better sound, more harmonic overtones. All the music and movie industry wants at least 48Khz. You can not only produce for a CD today. A 48Khz mix is always better than the same mix with 44.1Khz. And maybe at the end a little more future security, for the time you have invested in the song.
The vast majority of music productions are recorded in 44.1 Khz today.
Golden ears keep failing 48 vs 44 A/B blindtests and most of the biggest producers record music in 44.1.
Claims that 48 sound better don't hold up to scrutiny, but it's needed for video audio.
Besides video there are no reasons at all not to record music in 44.1.
Just record in analog.
Unless you have converters from 3000 BC, they're going to be fine for the task.
Generally recording at 44.1 is the best option - no sample rate conversion for later in the process. I still work at 48 because it was the highest rate you could get with ADAT (which I still use). I just haven't changed across yet, but at some point I will move to 44.1 and draw a line in the sand with old projects.
I generally will still record the Kemper analog though because I sometimes use a hardware compressor (LA2A/1176) to track with ... and the result is still excellent.
Why do you use 48 kHz at all?
Higher KHz also allows for lower latencies, processing power depending. Would be great if you gave it a second thought.
We would not get lower latency by using 48 kHz.
We would not get lower latency by using 48 kHz.
We would on PC/Mac side though, that's my point.
Yep. You reduce latency by 8% while increasing calculation power by the same amount.
Calculation would be increased by 8.843% while latency would be reduced by 8.125%.
Ok ok, I shut up again, hehe. 
