Re: 96khz Is it necessary?
96K is absolutely NOT needed to make good sounding rock/pop recordings. 96K audio files take up twice the room on your hard drive. Latency is something I'm not sure about. I highly recommend you use 24 bits though as the headroom is much better. I can't answer about converting although you could experiment by importing 96K audio into a 48K session and see if it converts correctly. You will know if its wrong as the pitch will be off. Hopefully someone else with more expertice will chime in. Don't forget you need to dither to 16 bits eventually. I like to bounce to disk in 24 bit, then import the mix tracks to a new session(24 bit) and (after I trim head and tail and add a fadeout if required) place a dither plugin in the last insert slot and bounce to a 16 bit/44.1K stereo-interleaved wave which I can then burn onto a CD with any of several programs(Nero, WaveLab, CD Architect to name a few).
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