31 May
2009
31 May
'09
3:39 p.m.
On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 01:04:16PM -0400, Ricus Vincente wrote:
I'd like to thank everyone for all of the help
they offered on building
my 16 in, 16 out DAW, and any other suggestions would be appreciated.
One thing that did strike me however, was that when I originally
suggested using four, Delta 44 cards, a few people said that would be a
problem, and to use two Delta 1010's. Cool.
What about if someone needed LOTS of tracks? Like a professional
studio with a big analog desk that wanted to eschew Protools in favor of
something like Ardour?
Say 48 in and 48 out, or even 64?
Does the RME hardware allow for that?
I've been using MADI cards from RME, each of them provides
64 ins and 64 outs and they work a charm. For interfacing
to analog you need external converters (first to/from ADAT,
the RME ADI648) and then to/from whatever your budget allows.
The cheapest converters are Behringer, performance is not
top grade but if you use only the line inputs you can
modify them so that the line signals goes directly to
the converters instead of being attenuated and added to
the mic input. Signal quality goes up considerably by
doing this, and you get rid of the variable gain.
Regarding Ardour it sure can do the job, but coming from
a 'real' (or 'reel') multitrack you will have to adapt a
bit. No more rocking the reels to find the exact punch-in
spot...
Provided you have enough physical ins/outs, the tracks
will autoconnect to them, so you don't even have to
open the mixer window if you just use it as a tape
machine, just create a template with mono outs for
each track.
You can set up the tracks as 'tape' tracks which means
that if you punch the original signal will be overwritten
as would happen on a real tape. The alternative is the
standard mode, where a new region will be created (on
the same track) if you punch, and you can edit the
transitions later.
Regarding punching, I've found Ardour on the unstable
side when doing that, even recent versions.
Ciao,
--
FA
Io lo dico sempre: l'Italia รจ troppo stretta e lunga.