Smooth switching of audio/midi devices

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2011/04/27 15:02:31 (permalink)

Smooth switching of audio/midi devices

Hi,
 
I have Sonar 6.2.1 Studio running on Windows 7 and it's all set up to talk to my MOTU audio interface via ASIO. But I'd like to edit audio clips when I'm mobile and NOT tethered to the interface. I have an S/PDIF High Def audio device on my laptop but how do I get that to appear in the Output field of each channel?
 
I don't like the way this version assumes that you only ever want to use a single type of audio interface with projects. If the MOTU device is not present I always get a "No MOTU audio device could be found" message and it opens the project file but if I want to point to an alternate audio device (or even MIDI device for that matter), I'm forced to manually assign all the outputs.
 
Is there a way to get around this in 6.2.1? Is there a newer version that handles this sort of thing more gracefully?
 
Thanks,
 
Jeff
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    brundlefly
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    Re:Smooth switching of audio/midi devices 2011/04/27 15:13:41 (permalink)
    Newer versions do not switch interfaces that transparently, either, but at least you get an option to choose an alternate output when it errors, which may not be the case in 6.2.1 - I don't recall.

    I would try something like this:

    1. Route all the tracks in the project to a Master bus (via aux buses as necessary), so that only the Master needs to be reassigned.
    2. Set the Output of the Master bus to None before saving the project, so you don't get an error when opening it.
    3. Set the Master bus output to whichever interface is available after opening the project and you should be ready to go.

    Changing external MIDI port routing is a whole other ball o' wax. It has gotten somewhat better, but is still wonky.


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    imaband
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    Re:Smooth switching of audio/midi devices 2011/04/27 16:44:53 (permalink)
    Thanks for the info. That didn't work but it was probably due to some system audio issue. But my take away from this is that if you assign it to a bus then you only need to re-assign the interface once.
     
    I downloaded Audacity (for free) to do my MP3 splitting and splicing and it worked out of the box.
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