Cubase is not very forgiving if you get the same rate wrong. For example, if the project is set to 44.1 and you drag in a 48K WAV, it will sound slower and lower. Worse than that, there is no warning that the rates don’t match. other DAWs wither pop up a warning, offering to change project settings, or they might automatically convert the file.
All my field recorders are set to 48K. This is usually a nuisance when I forget to set my Cubase project to 48K. Am I missing something? Is there an option to at least get a warning?
My bigger question is what happens if I must work with a combination of WAVs, some at 44.1 and some at 48? I guess I could manually stretch them to all sound right, but that would be a drag.
I have the feeling that I am missing something really simple here.
Thank you. I have seen that option before, but I guess it never occurred to me it would apply to the sample rate. I mean, what sense would it make to EVER intentionally import a file at the wrong rate?
I guess I was expecting Cubase to pop up a dialog saying “Hey Dummy, you are tying to bring in a 48K file and your project is set to 44.1. What do you want me to do?”
And am I correct in assuming that there is no way for Cubase to handle the file unless you select the option to copy audio to the project file? I would have thought it possible for Cubase to convert the file on the fly and not permanently save both copies.