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Re:Struggling to do live multi-track recording :-(
2011/05/14 06:23:38
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I believe it's called an express card. I have one on my laptop which is about 6 years old. Not sure if they are available on newer laptops. Beagle
jimmy - i'm not sure what you mean by "a separate USB card may help"
are you talking about a Cardbus to USB card?
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Re:Struggling to do live multi-track recording :-(
2011/05/14 13:27:16
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Phish record live @ 48kHz and they get pretty good results
Umphreys Magee do theirs @ 44.1kHz I believe.
16 tracks @ 96k is the same as 32 tracks at 48k ... I don't see that happening on an AMD 2.2 dual core.
I'm not making this up - I record multitrack all the time - up to 32 tracks @ 48/24 - without issue ever - right onto the built-in 500GB 7200 rpm drive on my MacBookPro (boot camped to XP).
One thing you should do is set Sonar to allocate disk space in chunks when recording. This will prevent file-resize thrashing as the system constantly recalculates remaining disk space. I have mine set for 300 secs - I've used as high as 600 secs. This means the system will allocate 5 or 10 minutes chunks per recorded wave file. This alone may solve your issue
Another thing is turn off waveform generation while recording .... it eats RAM - yes RAM - not a lot - but the waveform calculation also steals CPU. Turn it off. (you will need to wait for the waveforms to generate after recording. If you don't want this to happen immediately after recording - minimize the waveform view window.
Of course - no plugins - routing - anything that "works" sonar is bad. Close all other programs. disable wireless, defraggers, everything.
and definitely check your machine's DPC latency as suggested by others
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Re:Struggling to do live multi-track recording :-(
2011/05/14 13:39:51
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Oh - here is my live setup ... Focusrite Octopre Platinum v 1.0 (four units) Presonus Firestudio Lightpipe interface ADS Pyro 1394a ExpressCard (genuine TI firewire chipset) 15" Macbook Pro @ 2.66GHz 8GB DDr3 OSX 10.6.7 / XP 32 Internal Seagate 7200rpm 500GB hybrid Sata drive The OctoPres connect via ADAT to the Firestudio, which goes into the ExpressCard via firewire. I run the Presonus in Safe Mode 2 (higher latency) - though I'm not sure this matters - since the deciding factor in this case is hard disk speed. I also record using ProTools 9 on the same machine - same track counts - without issue.
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Re:Struggling to do live multi-track recording :-(
2011/05/15 02:45:54
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wintaper
Phish record live @ 48kHz and they get pretty good results
Umphreys Magee do theirs @ 44.1kHz I believe.
16 tracks @ 96k is the same as 32 tracks at 48k ... I don't see that happening on an AMD 2.2 dual core.
I'm not making this up - I record multitrack all the time - up to 32 tracks @ 48/24 - without issue ever - right onto the built-in 500GB 7200 rpm drive on my MacBookPro (boot camped to XP).
One thing you should do is set Sonar to allocate disk space in chunks when recording. This will prevent file-resize thrashing as the system constantly recalculates remaining disk space. I have mine set for 300 secs - I've used as high as 600 secs. This means the system will allocate 5 or 10 minutes chunks per recorded wave file. This alone may solve your issue
Another thing is turn off waveform generation while recording .... it eats RAM - yes RAM - not a lot - but the waveform calculation also steals CPU. Turn it off. (you will need to wait for the waveforms to generate after recording. If you don't want this to happen immediately after recording - minimize the waveform view window.
Of course - no plugins - routing - anything that "works" sonar is bad. Close all other programs. disable wireless, defraggers, everything.
and definitely check your machine's DPC latency as suggested by others
I've already done 16 @96, without issue and without having to disable a ton of other processes, ports etc etc and whilst running off the battery at one point having forgotten the power strip. So you can imagine my frustration at supposedly having a better system now, with [far] worst results. I've done a lot of tweeking at home, but until the new RAM arrives, I won't know how much effect it will have made. The allocation thing I've yet to do though. I've been multi-track recording live bands for years, but had always used dedicated hardware like the HD24 at venues, whilst having the usual kind of PC rig at home. This is the first real venture into using laptops/software for that situation and I did initially go down the Presonus Lightpipe route, but with no working express card slot, that had to go. When I started checking what other people were offering, I decided that to be able to make use of the 96 angle if need be would be good and, having already had that working successfully, why not. That may well change, it may well get limited to 48 for the sake of an easy life, but not until I've fully investigated why the 96 isn't working.
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Re:Struggling to do live multi-track recording :-(
2011/05/15 23:05:48
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The file-allocation setting will make a big difference - unfortunately the RAM won't.
More to the point...
A fair number of people have chimed in with solutions. Near as I can tell, you haven't tried any of them. At least you haven't posted about it. Instead, you're waiting to try the solution you had already arrived at before posting this thread. So I'm wondering what you expected. It seems like you have an answer for every proposed solution. If you already know the answer - why ask the question.
I'm glad you think your system should be able to handle what you're trying to do ... good luck with that ... let us know how it turns out...
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Re:Struggling to do live multi-track recording :-(
2011/05/16 06:10:34
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wintaper
The file-allocation setting will make a big difference - unfortunately the RAM won't.
More to the point...
A fair number of people have chimed in with solutions. Near as I can tell, you haven't tried any of them. At least you haven't posted about it. Instead, you're waiting to try the solution you had already arrived at before posting this thread. So I'm wondering what you expected. It seems like you have an answer for every proposed solution. If you already know the answer - why ask the question.
I'm glad you think your system should be able to handle what you're trying to do ... good luck with that ... let us know how it turns out...
I'm sorry if I've come across that way, my replies were not intended to give that impression. I thought I had discussed using things like the latency checker, external drives etc. I'm pretty poor at the moment - I have to wait for the RAM to arrive before I can report back on how much of a change any suggestions have made, simply because I cannot afford to go backwards and forwards from the studio in the meantime. I'd expected it to have arrived already, but it has yet to be seen. If I'm still having issues when I do go, then my intention is to bring the interface back with me.
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Re:Struggling to do live multi-track recording :-(
2011/05/16 11:25:44
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Just to cheer you up, I think your doing the best you can and seems your biggest frustration is you can't even get at the computer to mess around with suggestions.
The RAM, while always a good upgrade is not the big issue. Things are pointing at your hard drive configuration and possibly the drivers and the OS. If it was my rig I would install Windows 7. Read a lot of poeple recomending that. I'm still on XP so cannot verify but my couple of run ins with Vista kept me from changing. Thank goodness I missed the whole version and can move on to W7 with next computer.
Your older computer you say ran fine was I bet XP.
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Re:Struggling to do live multi-track recording :-(
2011/05/16 14:16:57
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Sorry if my last post was a bit edgy. Let us know how you make out with the RAM when it comes.
-Dan
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Re:Struggling to do live multi-track recording :-(
2011/05/17 02:38:28
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Don't let the anti-96k crowd get to you. Some on here love to present their opinions as facts, and try to bash those who disagree. Most professoinal studios I've been to record of at least 96k. Some, especially those in LA who do classical recordings, use 192k.
I was able to track 16 tracks of 96k audio on my now retired live computer with 3GB of ram. It was a old Desktop system with EIDE hard drives. However, the hard-drives have to be very fast. Hard drives are usually the cause for many problems in doing digital audio production. They have been the bottleneck for years in computers. One day, we'll have SSD that are fast as RAM. Then, life will be good! :) I've seen users on this board replace nearly everything in their computer when, in the end, it was a slow HD which caused dropouts, unstable performance, and freeze ups.
I will say that I couldn't get it to work right when my firewire bus (card) had more than the interface plugged in even if the other things were not being used. It's odd how some things can conflict that dont seemingly be the problem.
Tascam interfaces have excellent sound quality. However, their drivers usually stink.
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Re:Struggling to do live multi-track recording :-(
2011/05/17 14:59:37
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Most professoinal studios I've been to record of at least 96k
true, but live recording is very different - especially with a laptop. For starters, the acoustics won't be as good as in the studio. And you'll get much more bleed across channels. And then there's the microphones. In the studio you can use very sensitive condensers - but live you're probably looking at dynamic mics for the most part. I can guarantee you an SM58 sounds the same at 48k or 96k. Then there's disk space. 96k/24bit burns over 1GB per (mono) track per hour (2GB/hr stereo interleaved). So a 2 hour performance at 32 tracks would eat over 60GB of disk space. ... and ... hopefully its not a continuous 2 hour set - because the resulting wav file will be larger than 2GB and that can cause problems of it own. Finally, at 96k you can run about half the plugins you can at 48k before exhausting your CPU. I find I run a lot more plugins on live recordings and that ceiling isn't high as you think. -Dan
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mark s
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Re:Struggling to do live multi-track recording :-(
2011/05/17 19:14:12
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Perhaps true enough with the mics and all in the electronic/rock world.
What I've been doing, it's the jazz world, so I'm mostly using mostly LD condenser mics and tightly set directional condensers. Sometimes there's a direct in from an electronic keyboard or an electric guitar,... I'm supplying no sound to the room. It's more like an acoustic/electric hybrid. I choose to use 24/96. It works for me.
Sets are rarely anything more than 45 minutes, but I always have all the sets pre-set as different projects so I can quickly move into a second or third set by changing projects. If I'm concerned, during an an extended applause after a number, I can also hit stop and then record again. Now I'm back to zero time for the file.
I do not worry about latency since I'm only doing audio. And no plugs to contend with, no processor load with that. Besides, why would you really need to? It's about getting the track down.
It's really about how much bandwidth can you push through the buss into your hard drive. It doesn't take a lot of proc for that but does require two hard drives and a reasonable amount of ram (2gig for xp 32 bit, 4 for 64 bit) and a machine that's tweaked for audio. (Davii: get the second hard drive! Your system might be getting bogged down trying to read and write at the same time. This is DAW 101 Shoot, borrow one for a test if the money's an issue.)
Again, hard drive is cheap these days, and the projects are easily moved onto DVD for back ups and to clear the space out for new projects,
The projects are then transferred to my studio computer where I do all the post live work. The external drive makes this easy. ( and I usually have a better chair to sit in!)
And as I said earlier I'm using a Pentium M for this. It's 6 years old but it's tweaked only for audio, has an external USB drive and 2 gig of ram. I'm also using Motu heads for the 16 channels I get. Even using the Nvidea firewire, go figure.
For what I do I like to do it this way.
It works for me,...
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Re:Struggling to do live multi-track recording :-(
2011/05/17 19:45:05
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+1 Mark. I work about the same way as you and set up a bunch of pe meditated project files ready to go. If one song runs into the next I just leave it be. There's usually enough time during applause to stop n' save. If not I have all the songs minimized in the bottom and just open and hit the master record button. I don't have the horse power for 96 so am happy with 48. I agree with wintaper, the equipment being used live is already compromised anyhow, funky AC, HVAC and trucks rumbling on the highway. I believe capturing the energy of the performance is most important. As many feeds as you can steal from the FOH and a clean recording. and I guess each type and style of music will be a different approach, the last thing I'd waste bandwidth on would be loud rock or death metal. Just compress the snot out of it and watch for overs.
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Re:Struggling to do live multi-track recording :-(
2011/05/19 17:44:14
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wintaper
Sorry if my last post was a bit edgy. Let us know how you make out with the RAM when it comes.
-Dan
It's cool  RAM is in, have brought the interface back from the studio, so will look to get to work on all this after a good nights sleep...otherwise I'll no doubt hurl the laptop out of the nearest window 
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Re:Struggling to do live multi-track recording :-(
2011/05/19 18:08:49
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Ha ha, and remember - It's never the machine, it's the operator... so don't hurt yourself.
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Re:Struggling to do live multi-track recording :-(
2011/05/19 19:51:28
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johnnyV
Ha ha, and remember - It's never the machine, it's the operator... so don't hurt yourself.
I said that to an ex girlfirend once... ...I still have the scars  I've been dabbling with the rig this evening, even though a tired head probably isn't a good thing to be working with. I did manage to dig out an external HDD though, albeit a 7,200rpm one, but that was only happy up to 48. Strange thing is, the internal SSD won't manage 48 without a "disk might be full" error. I'm going to put the previous (not the original) HDD in, as I'm sure I did band stuff on that, just out of curiosuty. The comments about genres/mics are something I think I may need some clarification on, as they are an unknown at the moment.
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Re:Struggling to do live multi-track recording :-(
2011/05/20 09:45:57
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Here's a link for some pc tweaks if you need to double check. http://www.pcmus.com/TweakXP.htm If you're running sata drives some of the HD buss stuff will be out of date. The 7200 drive should be fine. Make sure all ports (serial parallel, etc) are turned off in bios. Turn off any WIFI What are your driver buffer settings?
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davii
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Re:Struggling to do live multi-track recording :-(
2011/05/20 10:44:22
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mark s
Here's a link for some pc tweaks if you need to double check. http://www.pcmus.com/TweakXP.htm If you're running sata drives some of the HD buss stuff will be out of date.
The 7200 drive should be fine. Make sure all ports (serial parallel, etc) are turned off in bios. Turn off any WIFI
What are your driver buffer settings?
Thanks Mark, though the link gives a page not found error? Update: I put the previous HDD (7200 one) back in the laptop and put the SSD into the external caddy, cleaned it off, disabled all the usual suspects etc and... Hey presto. 16 tracks @96/24. There's occassional cracks to be heard, but as I forgot to bring some mics back yesterday, that could be the bits n' pieces I've had to dig out which are less than brilliant. Plan to talk a friend into doing some real world tests, fingers crossed! Think I might do what others have mentioned too and look to having templates setup for different sample rates - especially as the large number of bands are likely to be noisy guitar bands through 57s/58s. Think the 7200 HDD will get changed for an SSD too, as money allows. Buffer size is greyed out, but showing 2ms/192 samples by the way. Thanks for all the input everyone
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Re:Struggling to do live multi-track recording :-(
2011/05/20 17:52:39
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Read through the page earlier and now I get a 404 too!
Since the old drive seems to be working I'd suspect the new one has less buffer memory built into it. Good to har it's going better for now.
You must be using asio mode for the driver? You should be able to change it in the driver interface some how. increasing the ms should help you out. I do about 6ms on my rig.
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Re:Struggling to do live multi-track recording :-(
2011/05/21 07:40:35
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mark s
Read through the page earlier and now I get a 404 too!
Since the old drive seems to be working I'd suspect the new one has less buffer memory built into it. Good to har it's going better for now.
You must be using asio mode for the driver? You should be able to change it in the driver interface some how. increasing the ms should help you out. I do about 6ms on my rig.
The old drive has 16mb cache, but as it's not a spec that's given for SSDs, I've no idea there. One thing I will say though, is that the Disc activity bar in Sonar was a lot higher than I expected it to be. I'm of the opinion at the moment, that the "disc might be full" error is a result of a bottleneck, prompting Sonar to assume the disc has run out of space. You'd think an SSD would have no such difficulty, through it's lightning speed, but judging by that status bar... There are settings for latency available; Lowest/Low/Normal/High/Highest. For now, I've left it on normal, with the view of possibly raising it depending on real world testing.
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Re:Struggling to do live multi-track recording :-(
2011/05/22 11:37:23
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ultimately, for straight-up live recording, the real determining factor is the hard disk speed. Btw - disk cache size doesn't really make a difference because in this case you are streaming to disk one-way (and in many cases caches are write-through)
Knowing that the disc will be the weak link, lightening the load on the host machine is also a good idea. Obviously don't use any plugins. I generally record into projects that have no routing - no sends/inserts/groups al all. Anything you can do to remove potential problems. Disable screen savers, turn off power management - disable wireless. Set latency at the highest setting - you're just recording after all - it doesn't matter.
And (yes I keep harping on it) set Sonar to allocate disk space in larger chunks - 5 or 10 min is good. turn off wavefile rendering while recording.
This will give you the leanest possible capture setup. In my case - I transfer to a workstation for processing. If you are actually working on this machine, you'd need to reconfigure for mixing mode.
-Dan
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Re:Struggling to do live multi-track recording :-(
2011/05/22 22:52:21
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Wintaper,
with you there about the hard drive speed. Assuming you mean dedicated HD too.
With all the extra load on computers things like wireless connections need to be paid attention too. I've found this one out the hard way in low load scenarios; but I think you're also saying that.
It's about keeping a clean route from the digital head to the drive.
And thanks for the tips about allocation. Though I've not had any troubles with what I've done in the past I'll always look for a better margin of safety.
best,
Mark
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Re:Struggling to do live multi-track recording :-(
2011/05/23 07:17:50
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your problems seem to be almost solved... I've done a few multitrack-recordings, 44KhZ@24bit x 24 up to 26 tracks on a very old Laptop. I've also seen a decrease in performance when I started upgrading parts of my system.. so from what I've experienced: XP(32bit) is the way to go.. ram is not an issue, and an internal 7200rpm drive is sufficient Vista is the worst in terms of performance (DPC latency) Win7 is better than Vista, but worse than XP So, if you don't get the basics right you'll not get a good performance no matter how hard you try. The Harddrive needs a constancy throughput performance.. you'll not get that with a SSD drive (unless maybe you'll spend really lots of cash). I am a bit too lazy to do the math right now, but a 7200rpm should do fine. I had an IDE Hitachi drive that worked very well.. the 2,5" 7200rpm ide drives have been discontinued,.. I guess you are still getting them as SATA drives.. I don't know your audiointerface,.. doesn't it have a direct monitoring feature ? I used to hook up my ff800 and 2 octamics in series (mics/line -> rme audiointerfaces->output to foh).. direct monitoring enables.. latency within Sonar/audio driver at a very save setting.
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Re:Struggling to do live multi-track recording :-(
2011/05/23 08:29:28
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Actually I've done all my remote sessions (32 x 48k/24) right onto the 500GB 7200rpm Seagate Momentus drive in my Macbook. Originally had figured on an external drive - but haven't needed one yet.
I use both Win and Mac on the MBP ... Sonar on Windows XP, Pro-Tools on Mac. Win partition is a dedicated DAW setup for capture.
As far as the OS goes... properly tweaked XP, Vista and Win7 are all capable...
*BUT*
Vista and Win7 will have much higher DPC latency on machines that have HPET turned on in their BIOS. If your laptop has HPET (high precision event timer) permanently enabled, you will be *far* better off with XP for capturing large amounts of tracks. XP is not affected by the HPET / DPC problem.
I've done multiple installs on the same laptop - DPC latency on XP can be as much as 100/sec *less* than Vista/Win7 on same exact machine. For capturing on laptop - this is critical.
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Re:Struggling to do live multi-track recording :-(
2011/05/25 08:47:17
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One additional thing that I had to do with my new SSD drive is to go to aud.ini (Sonar must be closed), edit it- by changing the dropout time from 256 to 500, I may have gone all the way to 1000...
That made all the difference in the world with sudden dropouts on my new win7 64 bit SSD system.
Try THAT!
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Re:Struggling to do live multi-track recording :-(
2012/09/03 14:02:13
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Hi all, This may have been answered somewhere else in these forums, but I have not been able to find the answer myself. I am using a Dell 15R laptop (500GB HDD, 6GB RAM) with a TASCAM US-1641 interface, using Sonar X1 Essential. I can't seems to get all 16 different inputs to show up on the inputs drop down for each track. All I get is the left and right mono, and a stereo. I am using 1 XLR input and 4 TRS inputs. Any help would be great.
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Bristol_Jonesey
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Re:Struggling to do live multi-track recording :-(
2012/09/03 15:14:42
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Start a new topic in the X1 forum.
This thread is older than me! (joke, but you'll get more hits by posting it as a new topic)
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timidi
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Re:Struggling to do live multi-track recording :-(
2012/09/03 18:10:34
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As far as the 96 thing goes, just tell them "yea, OK 96k, and then record at 48. What are they going to know.
If it gets testy, just upsample.
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Cactus Music
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Re:Struggling to do live multi-track recording :-(
2012/09/03 20:04:37
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Very old thread and some good reading.
As you can see from my signature I have the us1641
Your inputs under ASIO will show as
Left US 1641 mike in 1 This is input 1
Right us1641 mike in 1 This is input 2
Stereo us 1641 mike in 1 This you use when your doing a stereo track of 1#2
This is how most ASIO drivers show in Sonar
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Re:Struggling to do live multi-track recording :-(
2012/09/04 10:25:12
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timidi
As far as the 96 thing goes, just tell them "yea, OK 96k, and then record at 48. What are they going to know.
If it gets testy, just upsample.
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