# WASAPI sample rate issues

**URL:** <https://forum.juce.com/t/wasapi-sample-rate-issues/6421>\
**Category:** Windows\
**Created:** [February 14, 2011, 11:47pm UTC](https://forum.juce.com/t/wasapi-sample-rate-issues/6421 "2011-02-14T23:47:06Z")\
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**Author:** ![yairadix](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/forum.juce.com/yairadix/32/1114_2.png) [@yairadix](https://forum.juce.com/u/yairadix)\
**Post date:** [September 1, 2020, 7:04am UTC](https://forum.juce.com/t/wasapi-sample-rate-issues/6421/9 "2020-09-01T07:04:56Z")

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Since Windows 8, WASAPI will do SRC for you, enabling using input and output devices with mismatching native rates. Here’s a patch to enable it:

> [@Enabling Windows Audio's SRC](https://forum.juce.com/t/enabling-windows-audios-src/41509):
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> Some audio devices, like Microsoft’s LifeChat LX-3000 USB handset, have different input and output sample rates (41.1k & 48k Hz in its case), and JUCE with Windows Audio (WASAPI) doesn’t support that. But, since Windows 8 it seems that Windows Audio supports SRC, if you ask it to. So I made a [commit](https://github.com/soundradix/JUCE/commit/1162b8d1ec2542ced126f1d00a7e4ea075615395) to enable it. Seems to work slight_smile Many thanks to [PortAudio](http://www.portaudio.com/) whose source I looked at to discover the right Win API chants for this. Feel free to use it (note that our master branch is JUCE …

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