tocata wrote:Please, could you explain what is needed to reap the benefits of 96Khz audio?
Hello tocata,
There are two relevant settings in Hauptwerk v6: the '
Audio engine | Real-time audio pitch-shifting quality' organ preference (which has a new 'higher definition' option), and the '
Sample rate (for audio engine and audio output)' setting on the '
General settings | Audio device and channels' screen (which now allows 96 kHz to be used for any sample set, even for 48/44.1 kHz ones).
Have a read through the '
Audio engine changes' section in the release notice for full details:
https://www.hauptwerk.com/documentation/ . (It's rather lengthy, so I won't try to cover it in depth again here.) Briefly, enabling either or both of those options ('higher definition' and/or 96 kHz) will potentially give noticeable audible improvements, with the former being the one that makes the most obvious difference in most cases.
Enabling either one roughly halves the polyphony that your computer is likely to be able to achieve, and enabling both will reduce it by roughly 75% in total. You you need to adjust the polyohony limit setting accordingly, or you may need a more powerful computer if you still want to achieve more polyphony than that.
Also, if you want to use the 96 kHz option (which runs the audio engine at 96 kHz, and also outputs audio at 96 kHz, so as to avoid any additional down-sampling) then your audio interface would need to support at least 96 kHz, as almost all modern audio interfaces do.
There's no need for sample sets themselves to be 96 kHz -- it gives much the same quality benefits for sample sets of any rates. (Almost all current sample sets are 48 kHz.)
Best regards, Martin.
Hauptwerk software designer/developer, Milan Digital Audio.