34–KOMPLETEAUDIO6–Manual
• Format:Chooseasampleratethatiscompatiblewithyourmusicapplicationandsuited
toyourcomputingpower.Ahighersamplerateimprovestheaudioquality,butalso
causeshigherCPUload.Bydefault,thesamplerateissetto44100Hz(CDquality).
Thesampleratedeneshowmanysamplesareplayed/recordedperonesecondofsound.
A higher sample rate results in higher audio quality; however, 44100 Hz (as used for
recordingaudioCDs)isacommonsettingandabsolutelysufcientformosttasks.Ifyour
naldestinationisCD,youshouldusethissettingoramultipleofit(88200Hz).Fora
betterunderstanding:48000HzisusedbyDATrecordersandforDVD(lms)recording.
96000HzandhigherratesaretypicalforDVD,HDDVD,andBlu-rayDiscaudiorecord-
ing.YoushouldbeawarethatahighersampleratealsocauseshigherCPUload.
• Thru:TheThrucheckboxesenabledirectmonitoring.Thissendstheinputsignalsdirect-
lytoitsoutputatzerolatencywithoutanyinternalsignalprocessing.Tickthecheck-
boxoftherelevantchanneltoactivatedirectmonitoring.Thissettingisalsoaccessible
fromthehardware’sfrontpanelintheMONITORsection(seealsochapter5.1).
Thechannels’volumesettingscannotbecontrolledfromtheAudioMIDISetuputility;use
therelevanthardwarecontrols(seechapter5).
6.2.2 OutputPane
AllrelevantoutputsettingsoftheKOMPLETEAUDIO6arecontrolledfromthehardware
(see5).Seechapter6.2.1forgeneralsettingsandinputchannelsettings.