Okay, SB Live ain't worth it's weight in pond-scum, I already know that.
I've been using Cool Edit 2000 with the 4 track plug-in for doing mixdowns which works great. I haven't used midi for anything and even if I did, I have the ASP driver for my SB card so things ought to stay in sync pretty well if I ever do.
The problem is...any of you who have ever used SB Live knows that it has a default recording bitrate of 48kb. Well, if you're using Cool Edit it's not a problem, you just record everything at 48kb and then convert the finished product to 44.1 when you're done.
However; I just got the el-cheapo 8 track version of Cakewalk Guitar Tracks 2. When I went to set the record default bitrate for it, it only records up to 44.1 !!! Which means...I"m feeding my cheesy soundcard a 44.1 bitrate signal which it will automatically convert to it's default setting of 48 but then Cakewalk takes it and converts it again to 44.1 !!! Get it? And no, it doesn't sound as good as recording at 48kb to begin with and then converting down like I do with CE-2000, at least not to my ears. And what's more important, if you don't record at 48kb with an SB Live card, things WILL NOT STAY IN SYNC! This is especially true of midi latency problems from what I hear.
Well, here's my question, if I spring a few bucks for the full-blown version of Cakewalk Guitar Studio will it be able to record at 48kb? Does anybody have it? Could you please check? I mean if it doesn't then I'll just have to keep 4-tracking with CE-2000 till spring when I can afford a better soundcard.
Also, some of you who have other types of Cakewalk studioware might check and see if any of it allows for recording at 48kb.
Thanks in advance.
I've been using Cool Edit 2000 with the 4 track plug-in for doing mixdowns which works great. I haven't used midi for anything and even if I did, I have the ASP driver for my SB card so things ought to stay in sync pretty well if I ever do.
The problem is...any of you who have ever used SB Live knows that it has a default recording bitrate of 48kb. Well, if you're using Cool Edit it's not a problem, you just record everything at 48kb and then convert the finished product to 44.1 when you're done.
However; I just got the el-cheapo 8 track version of Cakewalk Guitar Tracks 2. When I went to set the record default bitrate for it, it only records up to 44.1 !!! Which means...I"m feeding my cheesy soundcard a 44.1 bitrate signal which it will automatically convert to it's default setting of 48 but then Cakewalk takes it and converts it again to 44.1 !!! Get it? And no, it doesn't sound as good as recording at 48kb to begin with and then converting down like I do with CE-2000, at least not to my ears. And what's more important, if you don't record at 48kb with an SB Live card, things WILL NOT STAY IN SYNC! This is especially true of midi latency problems from what I hear.
Well, here's my question, if I spring a few bucks for the full-blown version of Cakewalk Guitar Studio will it be able to record at 48kb? Does anybody have it? Could you please check? I mean if it doesn't then I'll just have to keep 4-tracking with CE-2000 till spring when I can afford a better soundcard.
Also, some of you who have other types of Cakewalk studioware might check and see if any of it allows for recording at 48kb.
Thanks in advance.