J-Station - Sample Rate Question
I'm trying to get rolling with Cubase, and intend to use my J-Station with it in S/PDIF mode.
The J-Station's sample rate is 44.1 and I'd prefer to record in 48. Does this create a problem, or is the sample rate in an outboard modeler irrelevant? I suspect the latter, but I thought I'd ask.
Thanks for any help!
Cubase may be smart, but....
Your software will record an incoming ANALOG signal at whatever you have set your soundcard to... but it can't record an incompatiable DIGITAL signal.
So Cubase may record automatically at whatever sample rate you set your soundcard to... BUT if you set the soundcard to 48 and feed it a 44.1 digital signal, you will get the results I described. You simply cannot play or record a 44.1K digital signal in a 48K environment (well, you can, but it will play back at the wrong speed and pitch).
Also, you will be feeding your soundcard an S/PDIF signal from an external device... so even if your sample rate does match, you will be clocking your soundcard to the internal clock in your J-Station, introducing more jitter and smear than you probably would have gotten if you have just used the analog outs on the J-Station.
An this is why hardly anyone really records digital signals... because transfering digital signals from device to device is a can of technical worms. For most home recordists, makein music through the internal soundcard on their PCs, you will NEVER hear the difference between the analog signal and the digital signal from yoru J-Station,
Re: Cubase may be smart, but....
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Originally posted by Gravity Jim
And this is why hardly anyone really records digital signals... because transferring digital signals from device to device is a can of technical worms.
Jim has it right. For serious stuff I'll borrow a tube preamp, but the rest of the time I use the analog outs through the mixer into the interface. The J-Station is not the best source for your clock anyway.
The music editors that I work with always want AIFF's @ 48kHz. They tell me something about film being 24fps blahblahblah...When I tell 'em the video that they are cutting to is 29.97 NDF I get blank stares. Now I just give 'em what they want. :D