Platinum XP Sample Rate

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I know the Platinum XP samples are 24-bit. But what sample rate are the samples within the .nks files? Not what they are recorded with, but as they are stored.

Thanks

[JMDNYC]

44.1

[shadowbox]

Interesting. So if your session is 48k or 96k is it constantly doing a sample rate conversion in Kontakt 2? And does this cause more CPU usuage in addition to processing 48k instead of 44.1k? Is there any loss of quality when upsampling?

[JMDNYC]

This is one of my old pet peeves. I run most samples on a separate computer and use an analogue connection to my ProTools. That way the samples stay at 44.1 while my master session is 48k.

I also find that if I do a digital connection and let the Digidesign interface do the sample rate conversion, it sounds pretty good. What DIDN'T sound good to me was to let Logic do a SRC internally.

I'm not sure how Logic Studio compares, or for that matter how Kontakt 2 or 3 compares since I've had this two computer set up for a while.

I've seen past posts where people opined that developers should offer their libraries as either 44.1 or 48 (for primarily CD or film music users). If this were the case, I would certainly opt for a 48k library.

JD

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Maybe one solution is to compose in a 24-bit, 44.1k session and export any mixes and/or stems ot 24/48K?

It's very annoying that (somewhat) arbitrary decisions made 30 years ago by Sony, Philips, and the recording industry have had such a long negative impact on production houses and composers.