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Sun, 05 August 2007 14:58  |
Neil
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Registered: April 2006
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I might have the opportunity to do a series of live recordings
here coming up the near future, and if I do end up doing these,
I would want to do them in CubaseSX for ease of importation to
the "home base" for mixdown. They'll all be multitracked to the
best of my ability to mic them (or to take direct outs or
submixes off the board, if possible... I'm guessing "not
possible" for the most part) in the live environment, so I'm
trying to figure out the following, and any input would be
appreciated. These questions are laptop/notebook-specific, as I
really don't want to get into ripping out my main DAW PC &
porting it around for these ventures, and while - like most of
you, I suspect - I've rigged-up several purpose-built towers, I
know virtually nothing aout laptop hardware... so:
#1.) I have two Nuendo/RME Multifaces - these are the only
interfaces I'm aware of that have a PCMCIA card available -
which would make things simple - just buy a cardbus card & Bada-
Bing!, I'm tracking with one of my Multifascia to a laptop.
Point then becomes, Can I go in at 88.2k & get a decent # of
channels? One Multiface will give me 8 analog ins, and 4
lightpipe ins at that frequency - might be bare minimum for
live rock, but 44.1k would give me 4 addtl. lightpipes (I have
no preamps with SPDIF out, so that's irrelevant in this case)
for a total of 16 - a little better... BUT.... is there any
off-the-shelf laptop that has 2 cardbus slots available, so
that I could use both of my Multifaces? There's question #1.
#2.) Would it make more sense to get a slightly used laptop
with XP already loaded, or get a new one with more CPU power &
RAM, but that I'd have to backload with WinXP, rather than the
Vista that it would come with? Again, I'm not looking at 30-or-
40-something tracks on these live recordings, it'd be in the
20's, at most, so a used one might be OK, even at 88.2k, and it
would NOT be ued for mixdown - that would be done on the "home
base" DAW. Thoughts?
#3) Would it be easier to go Firewire with something like the
RME Fireface series? Then I'd have to buy a new convertor box,
but if it would make life easier, it might be worth it.
#4) Any other thoughts would be appreciated.
#5.) And, no Chris Ludwig, I can't afford any of your $3,000
laptops! LOL! :)
Thx upfront.
Neil
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