Posts by mba

    Didn't I read somewhere that a higher bitrate was planned? I'd be surprised that it's set at 44.1 and is intended to stay there.


    Yes, it's my opinion that most pro recordings are made at 44.1, and that opinion is based on it being true! :)


    Personally I prefer 88.2 or 96 but it's a lot more tricky and sometimes impossible to work that way meantime.

    You think that the SA-CD is not pro?

    The vast majority of pro recording is still happening at 44.1 so I don't see that being limited to that (meantime!) is much of an issue for many. If there's a problem with a system being externally clocked from the Kemper then the problem is with the system not the Kemper.


    Is there something else I'm missing here?

    Yes, 1 it's your opinion, 2 there are other standard with higher quality.
    With demateralized stuff you can today release music at the rate you want.

    The real problem is that with the KPA being Master then that means your project in your DAW then gets locked to 44.1 too (unless you want all sorts of problems). It may not be important for the KPA itself to use a higher bitrate, but it is important for an S/PDIF devices and /D convertors to be able to do so. Right now that means that the KPA is locked to analog output and S/PDIF is out of the question.

    +1

    If you don't hear the artifacts while playing regularly but just when recording the issue must be on the receiver since the KPA signal does not change whether you are recording or not.

    I think that you miss the point, there is no issue with the KPA.

    It's just my experience.
    I'm surprised that you find it weird specially when we are talking about digital world.
    Aliasing and artefacts are something well known in digital world or you have to explain me why you do oversampling?
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oversampling


    So i don't see anything weird when you get a bad sound of a digital gear.(and we have a long history and lot of examples in guitar world of bad sounds)
    By the way i heard that with some cheap audio interfaces you don't get the same recording result with different sample rates....
    Anyway. ;)


    Is it in your plans to make different sample rates available for spdif? (i think that's the question)

    Can you explain this further? What was the exact test?


    CK

    I had a pod xt pro. When i tried to record the analog output at different sample rates the higher sounded the worst. It's seems that higher sample rates reveal some defaults/incoherences in the spectrum of the signal. In this case low sample rates help to hide artefacts. That was my guess.


    At a time we supposed that the kemper was based on the same technology than the pod so i asked to a french user to record the analog output of his kemper in 44, 96 and 192khz. The signal is more clear more detailled but it does not sound worst by himself.
    My guess is that the signal/processing is different and better.(perhaps it comes from the DA converters)