Can Audiophile actually do this?!?

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My idea of composing music is quite simple: I want to record HQ 24bit 88.2kHZ guitar and vocals into Cubase. Also I'm programming drums and other instruments with gigastudio. Then I could record the final mix with Soundforge (of course with 24bit 88.2kHz)...

CAN U GUYS ACTUALLY DO THIS??? Somehow gigastudio "steals" the 44.1 samplerate and I can work only with that rate. All the gigasamples are of course 44.1kHz. I am sure that my problem is very simple but I just don't seem to get it. Is this linked to multiclient driver? Has any of you had this problem and later solved it? Sorry for the stupid guestion but I hope that I can figure this out. I actually had the same problem with Hoontech DSP24 value. What am I doing wrong?!

And a midi problem too . When I play few sounds, everything is fine. But when I play the "full orchestra" (about 30-60 polyphony), sound becomes distorded. Not actually popping or drop-outs (playback is smooth) but small distortion. Like it was too loud. I tried to turn the volume down but distortion remained the same...

Here are also my specs (hope this helps):
AMD Athlon 1000 Mhz
Gigabyte Ga-72x-1 (VIA kt-133) with latest drivers
512 sdram
IBM 30Gt ultra ata100 7200RPM
Geforce 2 MX
Audiophile 2496 (4.13) latest driver
Win 98se
Gigastudio 96 (2.52)
Cubase VST32 5.1

I appreciate all the help you can give me. Also I apologize my goofy english

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[Slackmaster2K]

No, everything must be at the same sample rate. There is only one clock involved on the soundcard. If an application can support multiple samplerates at the same time, then be assured that it is either down or upsampling.

As far as your distortion problem goes, you're right in thinking that it's a "volume" problem. The issue is not your master level, but the combined volume of all of the instruments. In the digital realm especially, there is a maximum ceiling after which everything is clipped. You can only add up so many values before you get samples that are above 0 (e.g. clipped to 0). Turning down the master volume will only decrease the clipped signal. The solution (I can't be specific) is to turn down or EQ specific instruments to find a good balance. This is essentially "mixing".

Slackmaster 2000

 

[drstawl]

>And a midi problem too . When I play few sounds, everything is fine. But when I play the "full orchestra" (about 30-60 the same...

You have to adjust the volume of each channel downward when you combine that many MIDI channels. Also check the event list to see what the actual velocity setting for each note is! Sometimes max values (128) will distort even without a max volume setting. Depends on the patch!

 

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No, everything must be at the same sample rate. There is only one clock involved on the soundcard. If an application can support multiple samplerates at the same time, then be assured that it is either down or upsampling.

Slackmaster 2000

Thanks! Just wondering, how did SB Live record in different clock? I could record 8bit 44.1kHz into 16bit 48kHz with "what U hear". How is that possible? Now I miss my old live...

I'm using cubase so does it support multiple samplerates? I really have to record my gigastudio songs in 16bit 48kHz (I'm in one small movie project and all audio should be in that samplerate). I would really like to use even greater rates with my metal music...

 

[Slackmaster2K]

Well, you can certainly use software to upsample or downsample. It's really quite common, consult the help file or documentation. The SB Live! was probably doing this for you automatically, although I am not familiar with that card.

Slackmaster 2000

 

[Sangram]

The Live! samples internally at 48.

It downsamples to the requested rate by hardware on the card itself.

 

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>You have to adjust the volume of each channel downward when you combine that many MIDI channels. Also check the event list to see what the actual velocity setting for each note is! Sometimes max values (128) will distort even without a max volume setting. Depends on the patch!

I've lowered velocity and volume, no help. NOTE: I didn't have this problem with Live card. I play the same song that I did with Live but now there is that damn distortion. So I think that Audiophile is my problem. What do you think?