--- R Parker <rtp405@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi Stephen, > [...] > > I've got fibre cables connecting them together. > > Do you mean ADAT cables? Yes. > If your talking about transfering a file rather than > doing a realtime record pass then you are correct; > assuming your using ADAT cables. I'm not aware of an > alternative cable for the 4416 and the RME cards are > ADAT. You can't use those interfaces for file > transfer. No, I'm not talking about transferring files, I mean realtime recording. (I *wish* there were a nice way to transfer tracks as wav files to/from the AW4416, but there just isn't. I think the newer (but smaller) AW2816 or 16G might have a usb port that allows something nice, but I'm not really sure. > > I would estimate less > > than ten > > people on the entire planet (and that is my inflated > > guess) > > have an RME hammerfall AND are using the ADAT > > interfaces. > > Is that about right? Am I that far out in the > > weeds? > > The AW4416 has a SCSI interface, it runs Linux > (irrelevant for this issue but see Tux during the > boot) so you could figure out the AW filesystem > format, build and mount a drive for both systems and > use that to transfer files. I suppose. Try fat32 or > whatever is used in Windows. There's a Windows > application for extracting files from AW archives. I'd > try running it in Wine. The SCSI interface is only used for backups. However, the hard drives in the AW are easily pluggable... might be possible to rig a usb/ide interface for easy access to the hard drive from a linux host... BUT... I think this has already been tried by smarter people than me. It's a proprietary filesystem called SFS, iirc. http://ampfea.org/pipermail/a-list/2001-May/004596.html Someone has had some success making a program to read the backup CDs, but it's not open source, and windows-only (AWextract) and has other limitations (doesn't really understand the complete backup format.) > Otherwise, I imagine Ardour to be the most intuitive > solution for realtime recording. The AW will slave to > Ardour MTC which works well as master for multiple > passes of eight track groups. My last tests of Ardour > as the slave weren't successful...it's been awhile. This is my plan, eventually. > > > I would really like to get this working... > > otherwise, I've > > just blown $700 (RME + yamaha ADAT interface + > > cables) > > for nothing , and I'm back to burning CDs to > > transfer > > tracks between AW and PC. > > Are you using an HDR because of mobility? That (computer is not in the music room) and because I've had it for ages, and it's basically got the majority of an O2R digital mixer in it, which is not a bad little piece of gear. Even if I didn't use the HD in the AW, the mixer section and preamps/compressors/eq's and so on that are in it would still be useful. It's really a very nice, convenient machine for tracking. Not so good for editing, and there's no nice way to get things into or out of it. Mostly what little music I do is internet collaborations, so I end up with a process like this: download/decode tracks (mp3 ->wav), burn cds, import tracks to AW, record my parts, burn cds, import tracks to pc, encode/upload. Rather tedious. Would be nice to transform that process to: download/decode tracks, transfer to AW over ADAT cables, record my parts, transfer to PC over ADAT cables, encode/upload tracks. That's where I'm trying to get to. -- steve __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
