http://www.redbullmusicacademy.com/lect ... -takahashi
...with the chaps from Korg. Some interesting tidbits to be sure but what caught my attention the most was this paragraph:
"To make digital closer to analog you need to align them into sequence. To make that possible, you must raise the sampling frequency up to megahertz. And the resolution to, maybe about 32-bit these days? Doing all that, analog is still finer. But to the human ear, maybe not to people with exceptional hearing, but to the people outside of the music industry, the day is near when digital meets analog quality."
You can search for the paragraph yourself on the aforementioned link of course.
I tend to agree about the resolution thing. Analogue seems to have really high resolution (especially evident in the higher register). His reasoning seems sound as well.
I use a 12 core mac pro and 192khz is possible but it does tend to punish the computer a lot more than say 44.1. I realise some of the software upsamples internally anyway. Is the upsampling a multiple of the base sampling rate?
Curious to hear your guys' thoughts on, well, all of the above...
Cheers.
