Higher Sample Rates Sound Bad(44100, 4800)

[Hannah]

To be honest with you I've tried higher sample rates, they all sound similar. Buzzing or stopping during playback. I've noticed while playing around with cakewalk Cakewalk will disconnect from my audio devices(my speakers and mic). Weird. @bitflipper

[reginaldStjohn]

If this is the same device that is used by windows then make sure that windows sound has the sample rate and bit depth set to the same thing you are trying to set it too in Cakewalk

[bitflipper]

10 hours ago, Hannah said:

To be honest with you I've tried higher sample rates, they all sound similar. Buzzing or stopping during playback. I've noticed while playing around with cakewalk Cakewalk will disconnect from my audio devices(my speakers and mic). Weird. @bitflipper

OK, now we're making progress! 

Please try this: increase your buffer size to the maximum value, set the sample rate to 44100 and open a new project. Throw some audio in there and see how it sounds.

 

[Noel Borthwick]

If using onboard audio make sure that you have set the audio driver mode in Cakewalk to WASAPI Shared here:

 

This is the default for windows onboard audio devices and should work for all sample rates even those that the audio interface doesn't directly support because Windows does the sample rate conversion.

In WASAPI shared mode the latency is locked at 10 msec but it should be good enough for most use cases.

[Hannah]

@bitflipper It's greyed out for me but I increased playback buffer size  in sync and caching.