But as you can see from the red circle, Audition CS6 isn’t actually playing it at 96 kHz – it’s downsampling it to 44.1 kHz. Look:Īs you can see from the yellow circle, the files that’s loaded is 96 kHz all right. But in fact you’re not listening to 96 kHz at all, because Audition CS6 is resampling the file to 44.1 kHz. So you load both files in Audition CS6, listen to the 44.1 kHz version and then switch to the 96 kHz version. Then you decide you want to compare the 44.1 kHz version of a track with the 96 kHz download, using Audition CS6. Let’s say you’ve been listening to a bunch of 44.1 kHz files on your PC, using iTunes or JRiver Media Center and your soundcard. It’s exactly the same situation on playback.
It’s a matter of pure chance as to whether that happens to be the sample rate you asked for, and if it’s not, then the incoming material has to be resampled. So, not knowing what to do, it simply defaults to whatever sample rate was last used and sends that. This is thoroughly confusing for the poor old soundcard which is waiting to be told what sample rate to deliver. Instead, it simply accepts what it’s given. The reason Audition CS6 does this is because, unlike most other programs, Audition CS6 makes no attempt to tell the sound card what sample rate it requires. But if you look at that very small and inconspicuous message in the red circle, you can see that it’s not actually recording at 96/24 at all – it’s recording at 44.1 kHz, then upsampling to 96 kHz. If you look at the yellow circle (OK, ellipse) in the next picture, you can see that Audition CS6 has created a 96/24 file. So I hit the record button and start recording, thinking I’m recording at 96/24. So I put the LP on the turntable (which is connected to the soundcard’s analogue line in) and open Adobe Audition CS6 on my PC, ready to start recording.Īs you can see in the following picture, I tell Audition CS6 that I want the LP recorded at 96/24:Īll is fine. These, of course, are played back through my soundcard at 44.1 kHz.
Now, let’s say I wake up one morning, turn on the PC, fire up iTunes or JRiver Media Center and start listening to some CDs that I’ve burned to my PC’s hard drive. (In my case the soundcard is a Lynx Hilo digital-to-analogue and analogue-to-digital converter.)
ADOBE AUDITION CS6 NOT PLAYING PC
Let’s say my digital setup consists of a Windows PC and an external soundcard connected to the PC with a USB cable. That probably doesn’t make much sense so here it is in pictures. Instead, Audition CS6 does this weird thing whereby it simply accepts whatever random sample rate was last used on your soundcard and then gives you a resampled version of that signal. The problem arises because setting the sample rate in Adobe Audition CS6 doesn’t actually determine the sample rate you record at. It’s taken me years to realise this but thanks to Adobe Audition CS6, I think nearly every LP I’ve ever needledropped – thankfully, not that many - has been recorded at the wrong sample rate and then resampled.
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