I take it you have never used FL Studio then?
I did use it for a while and chose different.
If you have 8 kHz 8 bit samples, everyting above 4 kHz will disappear. You'd have to have very bad hearing
I was talking about the resampling algoritm, not about the material of the source.
that's irrelevant since we're talking about samples that will be processed and mixed
You're right. As with graphic files, all the editing must be done with the best possible original.
Besides this, I think there is a bit too much emphasis on the element 'quality of the sound' as defined by frequency-ranges and clock-speed. An underestimated aspect of the representation is the 'quality of dynamics'.
The resolution of the amplitudes, the quality of a sound being very soft or very loud.
People say : well, this mp3 sounds good enough, despite the original from audio-cd. But they only pay attention to the quality of the sound-'color', while the whole dynamics of the song are more or less gone.