audio interface: support 44.1khz sample rate

[Headfirst7491]

the akai mpc series only supports 44100hz sample rate for now.
would be useful to have 44.1khz as an option for the audio interface together with 48khz and 96k
this was already requested for other alien heath mixers in this forum.

[ecaep]

yes, this is relevant for me too. I am sitting here with the beautifull CQ12t and it is not working with my MPC. And this was the Reason for buying.
Is it planned to implement 44.1 kHz?

[Hugh]

In one way or another the word “OBSOLESCENCE” needs to be considered. A 12 bit, 44.1 sample rate was the established Red Book format for CD production that is now pretty much considered obsolete. Flash drives and SD cards that work very well with either 24/48 or 24/98K WAV files are todays prefered recording storage protocols. For that matter CD player/recorder production is now dead in the market. It is highly unlikely A&H will address the needs of yesterdays 44.1 recording protocols with their consoles.
Hugh

[Tobi]

CD has 16 Bit. And the CD-Audio-Format is everything, the human biology needs – you can’t “hear more”. So for delivery use cases its not obsolete at all, only the industry likes to sell “more” for a better price without a real benefit (and they really are succeeding with that strategy as today there are many people who believe, 96k/24Bit sounds better than CD quality — which is really not the case).

Considering that it is not our part to judge the question for 44.1k, I also cannot imagine, that such a change would or even can be done with the CQ/SQ/Dlive-Hardware.

Best Regards,
Tobias

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