--- R Parker <rtp405@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > --- Stephen Cameron <smcameron@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > It's really a very nice, convenient machine for > > tracking. > > Until you want to record and monitor 8+ tracks. And > then it's infuriating. I suppose so. That's not been an issue for me as of yet. The AW is probably overkill for what I do (record myself along with a few other tracks.) > > 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. > > I think you can redesign for a much better studio. Is > your PC hardware capable of running jackd without > xruns? I think so, eventually. That is my hope. I forget the processor speed, but it's not ancient, nor the fastest thing, an Athlon 1700+, I think. 1Gb RAM. Hard disk seems kind of slow, but that's just gut feeling I haven't tried measuring, and maybe I'm comparing against what I'm used to at work (loads of hardware RAID systems.) I still have work to do to get a suitable kernel running. [...] > Don't use the HDR but use the mixer and monitoring > interfaces with i/o routed to the RME card all the > time. Record to the AW HDR at a remote locations; > practice space, bar, etc. > > I'm looking at your setup while occupied with > something else. Am I overlooking your reasons for > recording to the AW? Probably 2 reasons. 1) it's proven to work for me (albeit inconvenently) The linux approach is as yet not working (for me, obviously it's working for others.) So I'm taking smaller steps first, rather than trying to jump to the imagined optimal solution immediately. 2) This is the main reason. The PC isn't in the room with all the music making gear, and there's not enough room to move either into the other's room. Hence my (yet unproven) 50 foot adat cables. I think they're spec'ed to 10 meters, and 50 feet exceeds that... So essentially *all* my recording is remote... my living room is remote, lol. Well, this may all end up with me buying a house that is compatible with shorter ADAT cables and having the PC in the same room as the AW, heh. Also, I've noticed it's much harder for me to get a good sounding recording with the computer, guitar pickups tend to get a lot of RF noise/whine from monitors, fan motors, etc, esp. with high gain amp settings, and mics pick up fan noise, like when the CPU fan changes gears suddenly, and none of those have been as much of a problem with my AW. But with the AW as a front end to the RME, maybe that would be alleviated somewhat, since previously my computer recording experiments have been through line-in of a cheap sound card (audigy2 value). -- steve __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
