Processing power with 192k vs 96k

[Whateva]

So I've been experiencing some issues with both recording and mixing recently where Nuendo craps out on me. Basically when I'm recording it tells me I have too many tracks recording and just stops, even if I only have 1 track recording (the most I ever have recording at one time is 2). And when I'm mixing/playing back the sound just straight cuts out on various tracks here and there. The sound cutting out only happens when I have like 4/5+ tracks recorded, it seems fine with 1-3. I'm thinking it might be the sample rate that I'm recording at. My interface handles 192 and I have the hard drive space so I've just figured that I might as well go as high as I can even if I can't tell much of a difference in quality. All my drivers for everything have been recently updated. I'm running Nuendo 3.2 on an Athlon XP 2800, 1 gig of RAM (soon to be 2), 5700rpm IDE HD and I use a M-Audio Firewire 1814 interface. I've defragged my HD and it's helped a bit with the too many tracks recording error but that error has popped up again within 24 hours of doing that. So does anyone have a clue if the sample rate (192) I'm using is just putting the hurt on my processing power or what?

 

[wheelema]

Seeing how as CDs are mastered ar 44.1KHz recording at 192KHz... specially when it doesn't, accoording to you, buy you very much... seems rather silly. Why don't you step it down to 48KHz and see what happens?

 

[ssscientist]

If your version of Nuendo allows it, try tracking at 44.1kHz but using 24 bit resolution. That's what I've finally settled on and I get all the tracks I can use.

I wait until the mastering stage to dither the 24 bit down to 16 bit for CD use.


.

 

[xstatic]

I disagree. If your system can handle it and you have the capabilities, there is no reason why you should not record at 192khz. In your specific case however, at least right now, your system is not handling it. There are several possible causes that I can think of off the top if my head. First, being the fact that what you ahve listed is only 1 hard drive and it is a 5700 RPM drive at that. This leads me to believe that it is not up to the task of what you are asking it to do and quite possibly may be much too slow for what you need. Second, you should take a good look at all of your buffer settings. You may need to lower your buffer and extend your latency in order to keep files flowing smoothly.

 

[Massive Master]

Seeing how as CDs are mastered ar 44.1KHz recording at 192KHz... specially when it doesn't, accoording to you, buy you very much... seems rather silly. Why don't you step it down to 48KHz and see what happens?

48kHz resampled to 44.1 usually sounds worse than 44.1 by itself.

I'd say if you're going "hi-res" then use 88.2 or 176.4 instead of 96 or 192 (44.1 still being well beyond the capabilities of most gear anyway - Not to mention human hearing).