3 Feb
2013
3 Feb
'13
7:08 p.m.
On Sun, 3 Feb 2013 08:39:22 -0800 linux-audio(a)to11.net wrote:
If I have two ADAT tapes that comprise a 16 track
recording but I
only have one ADAT recorder, can I transfer the tapes one at a time
into Ardour on my computer via an ADAT cable and, in the end, be able
to have all 16 tracks still synchronized somehow? I have heard that
Broadcast Wave files have embedded timecodes that can be used for
synchronization but I'm not really sure how to create them or, in
this situation, if they'd even be applicable.
When you transfer the audio over digital cable, that is with the
optical adat, a sample is a sample. So even if you don't get absolute
time-code sync between your adat-machine and ardour, the clock will
still be the same.
So you can just transfer both tapes one at a time, then manually sync
the two groups of tracks and they will stay the same till the end of
the song.
Unlike what you get when you digitize two analog 8-tracks one at a time
without exact time-code-sync...
Have fun,
Arnold