I use 24 bit 44.1 khz all the time.
 
Julien

you guys that do use 44/24..do you need to dither down or does x1 take care of this for you..just wondering becuase im thinking of moving up to 24?

24 - 44.1 here!

WDI
Sounds like a conflict of sharing drivers between programs. There are several ways to avoid these conflicts. But I've always found the easiest way is to configure windows to use the onboard sound chip of the mother board and configure Sonar to use ASIO with my Edirol or Fireface.

This was Plan B. I was trying to avoid it simply because I'm trying to minimize the number of cables leaving my computer (and going into the mixer).

Another reason to avoid it was that I am often comparing my projects with popular songs, sonically, for mixing purposes. So if I've got, say, Adobe Audition or WMP playing something, I like to be able to switch back and forth between that and Sonar X1b. Just to compare lows, mids, highs, etc. and it would seem to me that if one of those two was using a different "soundcard" I'd be comparing apples and oranges instead of apples and apples (ie, both using same card).

But definitely Plan B if I can't get this resolved. I just don't know why I can't get Sonar X1b and WMP to play at the same time on the same card if "Share with other applications" is checked.

does any one use 64bit floats (wavs) when they are mixing, obviously setting sonar to record at that bit depth. i can imagine not many due to the fact once the audio has been throught the coverters its zero and ones sonar is ****ing with, even from a softsytnth point, i bounce to audio to mix from softsynths, and sometimes am tempted to use 64 bit float wavs, but a lot of softsynths or most are 32 bit float, can any one see what am saying ??

48kHz, 64bit all the way except Wave-files 32bit floating....

FastBikerBoy


48/24 here.

I'm only surprised that someone hasn't claimed they can hear the difference yet.

I said that...until I knew better! LOL EQ and filter sounds better in higher sample format like 48... 96though..

Hello : remember that your are listening to final masterd CD.. I
often use a known good CD when mixing. then do the mastering to
get the final sound im looking for..Now why isnt everything using
ASIO...

     WAR!!! kHz WAR!!! and bit WAR!!!   ....awesome...just hold on... I'm just getting some popcorn...

jyeager11

WDI
Sounds like a conflict of sharing drivers between programs. There are several ways to avoid these conflicts. But I've always found the easiest way is to configure windows to use the onboard sound chip of the mother board and configure Sonar to use ASIO with my Edirol or Fireface.

This was Plan B. I was trying to avoid it simply because I'm trying to minimize the number of cables leaving my computer (and going into the mixer).

Another reason to avoid it was that I am often comparing my projects with popular songs, sonically, for mixing purposes. So if I've got, say, Adobe Audition or WMP playing something, I like to be able to switch back and forth between that and Sonar X1b. Just to compare lows, mids, highs, etc. and it would seem to me that if one of those two was using a different "soundcard" I'd be comparing apples and oranges instead of apples and apples (ie, both using same card).

But definitely Plan B if I can't get this resolved. I just don't know why I can't get Sonar X1b and WMP to play at the same time on the same card if "Share with other applications" is checked.

When using the Share Drivers setting what happens is that the program that has Windows' focus gets the driver so you can never hear 2 programs playing at the same time. It sounds counter intuitive but you need to uncheck that setting.