31 May
2009
31 May
'09
6:54 p.m.
On Sun, 2009-05-31 at 22:07 +0200, Fons Adriaensen wrote:
Not too big of a problem for what it gives me in term of flexibility
with extra tracks. A trade-off I'm happy with.
Yep.
And of course that will also give us the ability to record drums and
things on the 16-tk, and transfer to digital.
I assume that Ardour can lock up with SMPTE if I stripe a track onto
the analog deck?
Seems like this should be a high-priority big fix. Why isn't it??
Yep. But hey, that's why clients have money. ;-)
Rich...
Having used Neves I can only say I loved them. More
than
Harrison or SSL.
I've been fortunate in my (former) career in that I got to use some
pretty serious analog desks.
For converters, a good choice to use with MADI and
MADI/ADAT
are the 8-ch units from Aphex. They are great in fact.
My experience with their stuff (analog stuff) is that it is decent. Of
course Apogee is a good choice also.
Ideally
I'd like to submix the drums down to a stereo pair of outs so I
only use 2 channels on my console, same for guitars, percussion
overdubs, etc...
That would be perfectly possible. The only consequence is
that you have to divide you focus between routing done
on the mixer and within Ardour. For such use cases the
autoconnect works against you, so you have to do all of
it manually. It's no problem during mixing, but it takes
time during a recording session. I'd be
comfortable with either. After all, they made records with
destructive editing for decades. :-)
And using less than 16 tracks... Sgt. Pepper's was 4 track IIRC. Well that
changes things considerably for me. Punch-ins (and outs) are
a fundamental function for any recording device like this. Why is it
unstable in this area?
What happens regularly with my current setup is that after
one second or so you get an error saying that writing to the
disk failed for some reason. Restarting doesn't seem to help
in such cases, saving and reloading the session may help.
It's not something you'd want to happen twice in front of a
performing customer trying to concentrate on getting his/her
side of the punch right. From what
I've seen there should be a workaround for this, right?
Record another track, or region in the same track and drag the regions
to fit around the punch. No?
Yes, but that means you have to switch the monitoring manually
at the right points during the punch, and of course edit the
transitions later. The latter takes time.