[HuxbyParticipant]

In fact I have just converted all my WAV files to 48kHz and the problem has gone away. Simples. Obviously an SRC problem. There are still occasional small “ticks” at the beginning and end of files though. Hopefully if A&H put in some soft muting, this will go away too.

[HuxbyParticipant]

I admit it is an odd finding because, as you say, WAV files themselves had no such limitation. I know this problem from years of CD production, especially when mastering discs with continuous audio across track boundaries. CD audio tracks are always a complete number of frames so ripped CD audio tracks should not splat when played on the Qu-Drive. Quite why the Qu-Drive should be affected by this issue is beyond me, but my tests do bear this out. I only took delivery of the Qu-16 4 days ago and am now too busy to look into it further. I have tried replaying a stereo file which was recorded on the Qu-Drive and, interestingly, this was not affected. However this file is a 48kHz recording so maybe it is something to do with the way the Qu-Drive converts the sample rate. As I say – if only I had more time!…

[HuxbyParticipant]

I have just bought a QU-16 and need to play stereo backing tracks from the Qu-Drive and came across this problem straight away – loud digital splats at the end of every file. However, I have found a solution. The problem is caused by files which have an incomplete frame at the end of the file. My files are 44.1kHz and these comprise 75 frames per second of 588 samples. If I produce files that are a whole number of frames, then these do not splat at the end. How you achieve this is down to your DAW. I used Adobe Audition (CS5.5) to produce the files. To use this to trim files to an exact number of whole frames, select View/Time Display/Compact Disc 75fps. Then select Edit/Snapping/Snap to Frames, then use your cursor to highlight all the audio with the exception of the remaining part frame at the end and select Edit/Crop and save the resultant file. This should fix the problem in the short term, but hopefully Allen & Heath will sort this out in the next firmware upgrade.

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