How To Keep Sample Rate From Changing?

[Domlun]

So, when I open a project in one DAW (Cubase) and then try to open a different project in another DAW (Reason, FL, Ableton), I get this ANNOYING "sample rate" change dialog box. Then it asks me questions about "do you want to keep things at their sample rate position", which I have NO IDEA what that means, "do you wish to allow for different sample rates", etc., but no matter what I press, Cubase starts playing everything back at chipmunk level.

How can I set my DAWs and/or my interface to ONLY EVER WORK at ONE SAMPLE RATE? I don't want the options, every time I open up a different DAW or even a new project in the same DAW.

I spend SO MUCH TIME fighting this annoyance. After you change the sample rate in Cubase, everything is pitched way up, like the chipmunks and there is NO FIXING IT. I end up having to close the program and reopening the program and the projects.

I waste HOURS A DAY fighting this nonsense.

Is there ANY WAY to hard set my sample rate across my entire computer for ALL DEVICES AND ALL PROGRAMS AT ALL TIMES? Do I need to buy an old interface that only offers one sample rate?

I'm so sick of this.

[lfm]

I think best method might be to make all projects in various daws the same sample rate.
- I've had some old projects in 44k and converted all to 48k for this reason

Some daws when I changed setting to another sample rate than loaded project I got a dialog asking if to convert all audio.
- some do not ask, and you have to enter setting and change samplerate manually, and then getting a dialog if to convert project audio.
- some daws like Reaper never ask, it just resample in realtime

I have had really poor result historically running two different sample rates at the same time.
- I got very bad sounding sample rate conversions that was audible how bad it was

I've had that if having Windows Sound active, you could get a MessageBeep that were 44k while running a asio project at 48k, and suddenly got slow speed in daw.
- so turned off all sounds from system popping up dialogs etc to remedy that

Then finally why you need 2 daws running at the same time, is another thing to ask yourself?
- most common is to maybe have a video streamed over internet at the same time as daw runs

Since this is a nuissance for you, I mean
- either convert projects
- or continue this habit

Best chance running two sample rates at the same time is using different protocols
- asio on one and wdm on the other

[BertKoor]

You create a conflict for the audio interface. It can only run at one sampling rate at a time. So it asks you nicely how to resolve that conflict.

It's best to avoid such conflicts. Stick to one sampling rate, make it the default everywhere.

[whyterabbyt]

How can I set my DAWs and/or my interface to ONLY EVER WORK at ONE SAMPLE RATE? I don't want the options, every time I open up a different DAW or even a new project in the same DAW.

Open new blank projects in each DAW. Change the DAWs settings for sample rate for all your DAWs so that they're all the same. They'll be in 'Preferences' or 'Settings' or similar. Keep that consistent, dont change it.
Also change the settings for the sound card so that its the same sample rate as that.

Is there ANY WAY to hard set my sample rate across my entire computer for ALL DEVICES AND ALL PROGRAMS AT ALL TIMES? Do I need to buy an old interface that only offers one sample rate?

Set it in the Control Panel for the soundcard. Dont change it. Dont change it anywhere, ever.

Your problem is basically that you have used different sample rates for different projects, so when you load a project at sample rate that is different from the last project, or the soundcard's current setting, the DAW software is trying to match the sample rate for the project. If you let it do that, then its obviously going to mismatch other projects. And then round and round you go.

In other words, if you're changing the sample rate to match different projects, then you need to stop doing that.

You are going to have to do one of the following
1) Convert all your projects to the same sample rate
2) Put up with it
3) Pick one sample rate, and stop working on any projects that dont match that.

Or you can just work your projects at the existing sample rates.

Oh, and its not 100% clear to me, but if you're actually saying you're running two different DAWs at the same time with different sample rates set for the different projects, then dont do that.