Protools 192k

[Joz]

A recording engeneer from a big studio in LA, told me that digidesign is going to skip doing protools 96k, instead they are working on 192k of resolution. I'd like to know if this is true, cause that would solve alot of the problems that digital recordings have.

[peteri]

Sure, one of the things it would certainly allow is better EQ curves (which no-one seems to mention).

BUT it will also cause a lot of problems, both storage and DSP wise, and I'd be interested to see how the PCI buss will deal with this amount of traffic (64 tracks at 192k anyone?)

Pete

[emilano]

Well, I'd like to open a discussion on the proposed benefits of higher sample rates. Or should I just do a DUC search? (pause for tomato throwing)...

Since many monitors aren't designed to playback frequencies much above 20hz, what is the point? Same goes for many microphones....Not so for many pre-amps though, many of the higher end models profess to be good way above that. But if your mic and speakers aren't recording/playing them, what's the point? Do well have to upgrade everything in our signal path to be able to reproduce these freqs once the new systems come out?

The only thing I can think of is that perhaps the way higher frequencies make things sound better is by having some sort of "influence" on the lower ones. Like maybe somehow causing them to resonate in some way or something...just going on intuition here...If this is true in someway, then you wouldn't need to upgrade everything, but then again, then I guess we wouldn't even need the 192khz systems...

I've read a study that showed that people did show more brain wave activity when played music with the higher freq's but the music was played back on monitors that were proven to be playing back freqs up to 50khz.

Anyone know more about this? Okay, okay, I'll do the search! (wipes tomato from eye).

[GW]

"The Apogee Guide to Digital Audio" is a folder that explain this problematic in plain understandble terms.

I think 24/192 sounds like a great idea and storage and DSP won´t be a problem for long - history has shown us that... [img]images/icons/wink.gif[/img]

[emilano]

I'll look at that, thanks. But I'm always a bit skeptical when the people who wrote the thing are the same ones trying to sell you the thing.

[mpayne]

http://duc.digidesign.com/cgi-bin/ub...&f=16&t=010660

Has a fair bit on this topic

Malcolm