[LAU] Zoom R16

[Kevin Cosgrove]

On 17 March 2012 at 3:31, Jan Depner <eviltwin69 at cableone.net> wrote:

[snip]
> > > kick, snare, drum overhead, and I still have 3 inputs left!  There is,
> > > as advertised, about a 2ms delay on the second unit
> > 
> > > but when I insert the tracks into Ardour I can nudge the tracks
> > > from the second unit.
> >  
> > What does that last statement mean?  Does that mean that when two 
> > R16s are being operated that the 2nd of the two sort of, kind of, 
> > works with Ardour?
> > 
> 
>     I read the tracks from the Zoom R16s as WAV files and insert them
> into an Ardour session.  Since the two R16s are linked by USB when
> recording there is a very small delay (about 2ms) on the slave R16.  You
> can nudge the tracks from the second R16 to get them to line up exactly
> with the tracks from the first R16.  In practice, it's very difficult to
> detect the 2ms delay and you usually don't have to do anything to the
> second set of tracks.

OK, I get it.  The audio gets nudged in time in ardour.  My
wishful-thinking interpretation was that nudging the sliders on
the 2nd unit would work as a control.

Thanks for the clarification....
 
--
Kevin