On Sun, 2009-05-31 at 22:07 +0200, Fons Adriaensen wrote: > 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. 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. > > 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. 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? > > 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. Seems like this should be a high-priority big fix. Why isn't it?? > > 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. Yep. But hey, that's why clients have money. ;-) Rich... _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
