Looking to see if anybody here has done extensive work on Midi Clocks. Apogee Electronics has Big Ben and MH Labs LIO-8. Weiss Engineering has a clock built into the DAC-2mk2, but all are 24 bit units. Are there any clocks that will support 32 bit word length at 192k? It appears that Apple will only support 24bit@96k natively through any of their programs. Has anybody done further research on this?
I believe the bit depth of an audio AD/DA doesn't (or shouldn't) affect the clock setting.
IE a 192 khz sample rate would use the same reference clock whether or not the audio word size was 24 bit or 32 bits.
On my Mac I can set 16 or 24 bit audio word size for the audio I/O. (Logic Express with a Presonus Firestudio 2626 attached). I'd assume the internal audio math is done at a higher resolution (32 bits?) since the CPU doesn't want to work on 24 bit math.
Did you find someone selling a 32 bit AD/DA audio widget? (hint - that's 192 db of headroom, from one molecule jostling to the universe exploding - I don't want our planet destroyed by your recording session - see the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Universe books :)
I think 24 bit AD/DA is the biggest word size you'll find.
This is actually not a midi question.. More of a DAW question really..
You are mixing up MIDI clocks with sample clocks. The two are entirely different things.