"Mike" wrote in message
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Hi,

If you set the samplerate at 48khz in Cubase SX (which is recommended
when you use an Audigy card) or even higher if you card supports 96khz
and you want to import a standard 44.1khz wav file, I believe SX will
ask to resample it, am I right?

Yep.

How does that work?

It just resamples it/converts it... what else is there to know?

If it resamples during import, how good is the quality of the resampling
process of SX

Not too shabby, IMO, YMMV.

or is it better to use an external program like Sound Forge to resample
all 44.1khz files to 48khz first, which would be time consuming?

Using an external conversion process would be more time-consuming by
nature, but we're also talking only a few seconds difference per track,
however. OTOH, I also don't think that SF's conversion is any cleaner than
CubaseSX's.

How good is the quality of the 44.1khz to 48khz resampling of Cubase SX?!

IMO, it's adequate in most cases that I've used it in, in any event. See
fine print coming up near the end, though.

When Cubase SX resamples to 48khz, does this affect the quality of the
audio file in any way, like is there any noise or a little bit of
distortion added or something to the file when resampled or does the
quality of audio the file stay completely perfect after SX has resampled
it to 48khz?

Whenever you resample on any application, there might possibly be 'some'
errors - the errors that are most common are rounding errors that result by
going from non-evenly-divisible numbers... like 48k to 44.1k, for example.
Going from 88.2k to 44.1k is less likely to result in rounding errors
because it's evenly devisable, as compared to going from 48k to 44.1k. Guys
like Arny may also have some input on this topic.

Anybody here with an Audigy 2 who can tell or if you have another card,
could you do a small test where you set samplerate in Cubase SX to 48khz
and then import a 44.1khz wav file and let Cubase SX resample it on
import. Does the audio quality remain the same?

It shouldn't have anything to do with the card, really... those
calculations are done internally.

Here's the fine print I mentioned befo Go here if you want to check out
the best (IMO, of course) samplerate-conversion utility on the planet...
look about 3/4's of the way down the page for a free app called "r8brain".
You CAN hear the difference...

http://www.voxengo.com/downloads/

....or if you can't, then you don't need to worry about the answers to your
other questions
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