Question about SONAR and REAC and recording

I am sure you can do this. Of course if you take your 40 channel recording away and want to replace the drums somewhere else eg a studio then all the normal conditions apply.

I assuming you are saying that the drummer may want to redo their tracks right there and then while you have the whole live setup going into your laptop.

I am not totally sure of this but I would have to assume if you can get 40 channels across from the RSS V Mixer over to Sonar you must be able to go the other way and perhaps send busses or the master buss at least back to the RSS Mixer from your laptop. If this is very important to you you might want to contact the REAC people to find out. It might only be a one way connection but I would be surprised if that were the case.

I don't know the system but my guess is that your 40 tracks will be played back through the master bus in Sonar to a Stereo out which can be sent to your drummer. And I will guess that whatever audio coming in can be routed to the same stereo output, either through Sonar or via direct monitoring in the V-mixer so the performer can hear him/her self as well. And my guess is also that you don't have to re-record all 40 tracks again. You just arm the tracks you want to re-record and it will simply just playback the rest of the tracks through the monitors while recording on the armed tracks.

Like I said, I'm guessing here, but I have never come across a recording device where this wasn't possible and standard behaviour.

If you want to try this out, open one of the projects and Save As "projectnameMKII" or something - remember to un-check "copy all audio" in the save dialogue. Then try to re-record something on one of the tracks. This way you can see how it behaves without messing up your original project;)

Best of luck

Thanks for your reply.  I posted the same question here:

http://www.churchmedia.ne...o-sonar-recording.html

and the reply was it wouldn't work because of V-mixer/REAC delays.  The poster said he contacted RSS and their reply was V-mixer/REAC/Sonar was intended for live recording (not studio recording) only, I guess once at time of performance?

So I have no experience with recording, but I would think the problem of aligning multiple tracks not all recorded simultaneously at one session would be a 'solved' problem?  Or does all multitrack studio work assume you have no input delays if you want to re-record a track?