[Rwp] setting optimal sample rate and depth/rendering etc

James Teh jamie at nvaccess.org
Sat Oct 10 23:02:43 EDT 2015


As I understand it, you can't actually set the sampling rate in 
Preferences. You can only set whether the project should override the 
device sampling rate; i.e. the rate configured for/by your device, not 
by REAPER. I think the idea is that REAPER wants to configure sampling 
rate and bit depth per project because you might choose to use different 
settings for different projects. That said, as an x-Sonar user myself, I 
too was expecting to find it in Preferences.

Jamie

On 11/10/2015 8:10 AM, Chris Belle via RWP wrote:
> I'll have to experiment, but what makes me nervous is that when I push 
> that button, I don't think it changes the settings in the dialogue in 
> preferences.
> device.
> So that makes me think you can change it both places,
> whether it matches yoursoundcard abilities or not.
>
> For instance, you can set 8 bit recording in soundforge,
> even though your audio device might not support it directly, so when 
> ever possible, I want to see what's really going on, and not be faked 
> out.
>
> So I wish this sort of stuff was a global setting strictly.
>
> Or that project settings tended to follow the global settings.
> in sonar they do unless you force a difference.
> But two different animals, two different ways of doing things.
>
>
> On 10/10/2015 11:17 AM, Scott Chesworth via RWP wrote:
>> I'm not in front of Reaper, but I'm pretty sure that somewhere within
>> that project settings dialogue accessed with Alt+Enter there's a way
>> of saving those settings as your defaults. That doesn't explain why
>> the checkbox in prefs isn't working though.
>>
>> Hth
>>
>> Scott
>>
>> On 10/10/15, Chris Belle via RWP <rwp at bluegrasspals.com> wrote:
>>> Ok, I'm scratching my head here.
>>>
>>> I have set 44,100
>>> and 24 bit in my
>>> device settings and checked the check box to not let projects over-ride
>>> sample rate.
>>> I've tried it both ways, but maybe that's just for sample rate, and not
>>> depth.
>>> But to get 24 bit recording, I always seem to have to set that in
>>> individual project settings with the alt-enter and same for rendering
>>> settings.
>>> Is this standard behavior, or is there a way to globally set this
>>> someplace else,
>>> so it always defaults to 24 bit, recording, and we always want 32 
>>> bit or
>>> better rendering right for fx and such?
>>>
>>> Otherwise, everything seems to default to 16 bit.
>>> when I start a new project.
>>>
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