KVR Audio

Echoes in the Attic · Post by **Echoes in the Attic** » Wed Aug 27, 2014 5:25 pm

Has anyone noticed that by default Monark is set to 88200 Hz sample rate? Setting this to 44.1 lowers the CPU by half and honestly I haven't heard much difference for most sounds. I was expecting it to be worse but I've been pushing the filters and driving it and really not hearing any difference accept for some really high notes on sharp patches with the faintest aliasing. Personally I wouldn't normally use this range where it's barely noticeable anyways.

Anyways there's a tip - Try lowering the sample rate to save cpu.

robogone · Post by **robogone** » Wed Aug 27, 2014 5:29 pm

I've done the same thing with a couple of heavy hitters from the UL. It works great!

Totolitoto · Post by **Totolitoto** » Wed Aug 27, 2014 5:44 pm

Care to tell us how we do that?

Echoes in the Attic · Post by **Echoes in the Attic** » Wed Aug 27, 2014 6:08 pm

Totolitoto wrote:Care to tell us how we do that?

All Reaktor ensembles let you adjust the sample rate in the top right corner. You should see 88200 or 882. Just click that and change to Fixed 44.1 or Host (44.1) if you're host is set at that.

You get a warning box that best quality is at 88.2 but like I said, you'll probably never notice a difference.

Totolitoto · Post by **Totolitoto** » Wed Aug 27, 2014 6:32 pm

Oh ok, I thought it was some internal settings

Ingonator · Post by **Ingonator** » Wed Aug 27, 2014 6:32 pm

Thanks for the tip, will try that.

EvilDragon · Post by **EvilDragon** » Wed Aug 27, 2014 6:46 pm

Lower sample rate = more aliasing. If you're fine with that, go ahead. I'm not, personally, so I just leave it at 88200.

Echoes in the Attic · Post by **Echoes in the Attic** » Wed Aug 27, 2014 6:55 pm

EvilDragon wrote:Lower sample rate = more aliasing. If you're fine with that, go ahead. I'm not, personally, so I just leave it at 88200.

Yes of course but my point is that it is FAR less noticeable than I expected in Monark for most situations. For 95% of sounds there is NO discernible difference so why waste the CPU. If you haven't compared, you might want to.

EvilDragon · Post by **EvilDragon** » Wed Aug 27, 2014 7:04 pm

Higher resonance and filter FM sounds will indeed benefit from higher SR. I did compare, that's why I'm keeping it at 88.2k, well at least that's my 2c

penguinfromdeep · Post by **penguinfromdeep** » Wed Aug 27, 2014 7:29 pm

Can you actually put it higher if you want super extra mega quality?

EvilDragon · Post by **EvilDragon** » Wed Aug 27, 2014 7:38 pm

You won't gain much by going above 96k is what I gather. The structure is finetuned for 88.2/96k.

Echoes in the Attic · Wed Aug 27, 2014 10:58 pm

Yeah in the rare instances that I could get a bit of aliasing at 44.1, it was totally gone at 88.2 so no point in anything higher.

Maybe stupid question but why is it 44100/48k or 88200/96k? What's with the two values?

EvilDragon · Post by **EvilDragon** » Thu Aug 28, 2014 7:21 am

Audio CDs are 44.1k, but when working with video, it's usually 48k.

Cut Monark CPU in half with sample rate adjustment