One of my core principles for audio production is to record and mixdown at a high sample rate (96kHz or above) and then use a high quality SRC to downsample from the master as needed.andypryce wrote: Sat Nov 01, 2025 7:05 pm It asks if you want to convert the audio files and if yes, creates new files.
Why would you change it in mid project though?
I have two templates, 44.1 for songs and 48 for video projects and never needed to change during a project.
Rarely at the beginning if the file I received is different.
CPU usage, though, is directly related to sample rate. Double the sample rate, double the CPU. So I mix at 48kHz. This requires switching the sample rate in the song, depending on what I’m doing. It also means that I no longer have to think about my sample rate, and don’t. There is simply high-resolution source audio, and high-resolution export audio.
It also means not having to keep track of originals and copies, and swap in the original high-resolution files every time you want to switch back to a higher sample rate. If you worked the way I do in Cubase and didn’t swap in the original after changing back to 96kHz, your audio quality would suffer from the cumulative degradation of repeated resampling. Studio One makes that a non-issue.
At the time that I switched from Cubase to Studio One, Cubase had a limitation where audio could only be routed or sent to a destination channel physically to the right of the source channel in the mixer.