As the title says. And holy crap, what an amazing difference! I don’t know why it’s actually taken me so long to at least try it out, but wow. I don’t want this to turn into another endless battle about Nyquist or placebo or what’s the “right” way to do things - I just wanted to share that trying this out kinda rocked my world in terms of thinking about live performance. I was under the impression that doing this might make fx and other calculations sound a tiny bit better, at best, but oh my god, it’s like my external gear got a whole new lease on life. It’s like a veil got lifted on my synths and Rytm is punching like nothing else. Just magical. I wouldn’t expect 88.2 to work any magic on the OT though, since it’s just playing back lower res samples, but I don’t know, I haven’t tried it yet. Is it true that most people can’t even hear the difference between 48 and 88.2+? My ears are crap, and it’s like night and day.
Anyway, I’m resigned to the idea that it barely matters for final 44.1 product, but damn if 88.2 won’t be killer for the live show. Now if only my aging laptop can keep up…
EDIT - I should add that I’ve never used my gear direct to a mixer>monitors with no interface in between, so don’t really have a comparison there. I’ve been working in 48k for five years or so and strictly 44.1 for forever before that.