audirvana sampling rate switching on ipad

#AUDIRVANA SAMPLING RATE SWITCHING ON IPAD HOW TO#
#AUDIRVANA SAMPLING RATE SWITCHING ON IPAD DRIVER#
#AUDIRVANA SAMPLING RATE SWITCHING ON IPAD MANUAL#

I've also heard people say that Windows' resampling algorithms are poorly implemented between certain frequencies but I've never seen any measurements on it and never bothered to test myself. That does have the potential to be audible or measureable.

If the sample rates of the source audio and the Windows mixer are different then Windows will resample the source to match the mixer's rate. If the Windows mixer is already set to the same rate as the source audio, all the Windows enhancements are turned off, the Windows volume is set to 100%, and nothing else is playing on that device's mixer then everything should pass through bit perfect and there won't be any differences to hear or measure. If all the programs you use that need to change the sample rate use WASAPI that's pretty easy but if you have to use ASIO then you'll need to change things manually after using an ASIO capable program. I don't use Spotify, but I'd bet it only plays into the standard Windows mixer and would probably sound (or at least measure) best if you kept the mixer rate at 44.1 and skipped Windows' internal sample rate conversion.

#AUDIRVANA SAMPLING RATE SWITCHING ON IPAD DRIVER#

The ASIO driver will leave the Windows mixer sample rate set on whatever you last played through ASIO while WASAPI will leave it as is. Either one will be bit perfect and automatically change the sample rate but WASAPI will only work with the Windows Class driver so you have to uninstall the ASIO driver first. Does Ableton Live let you select WASAPI as a driver type?įoobar has both ASIO and WASAPI plugins available. I think they all have that name so you can mix and match channel mapping between different RME devices but I'm not 100% sure. 'MADIface USB' is the name of RME's ASIO driver so select that to use ASIO with it. I've been leaving it on 100% and using the DAC's inbuilt volume ofc, but does the fact that the Windows system volume still works indicate that the data being sent to the DAC is not bit-perfect? This seems weird, but is it correct? If I just want the DAC to receive all audio at the original sample rate - is there anything I can do to make it do this?Īnd if this is not possible, could there be anything wrong with the PC upsampling everything to say 88.2KHz (which is the normal sample rate I use when producing music in Ableton Live).įinally, the windows volume control in the taskbar still affects the volume of the audio going to the DAC.

#AUDIRVANA SAMPLING RATE SWITCHING ON IPAD MANUAL#

If I understand the manual correctly, the user must choose the sampling rate through the RME driver software, and the PC then sends all audio to the DAC at the selected sample rate, regardless of the original sample rate of the audio file being played.

#AUDIRVANA SAMPLING RATE SWITCHING ON IPAD HOW TO#

However, I'm confused about how to set it up optimally. When I got this DAC, I installed the RME driver package and there has never been any problem with getting the device to play music. I know bits and pieces of this question have been discussed on other threads, but I'm still a little stuck here as to how best to set up this DAC with Windows 10.

Audirvana sampling rate switching on ipad