| System to compliment Paris [message #66953] |
Mon, 17 April 2006 03:48  |
Dan B
Messages: 54
Registered: June 2005
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Given that I move my rig around a fair bit and that's driving me nuts (MEC
with 8 i/o, adat card, 2 eds cards, desktop pc, flatpanels, separate pres
and mixing desk, etc), I was thinking about getting a laptop and an interface.
assuming a quiet laptop, i could then probably also track in the same room
which would be very sweet!
Interface wise, the goal is really to have something capable to tracking
acoustic guitar with at least 3 inputs. That said, might be useful to have
the option for midi and extra inputs (you could just about track drums with
8). I think the focusrite sapphire pro is the best bet here (8 pre amps,
adat, midi and spdif i/o, etc).
however, where i'm more stuck is the software front. since most of my ongoing
projects are trapped in paris, it'd be very useful to have some kind of communicability
between the systems. e.g. exporting projects. i'm guessing OMF works for
protools. but i've heard good things about cubase sx3. it'd be nice to have
something that can handle softsynths, midi, automatic latency compensation,
etc.
it'd be great to be able to transfer projects from paris to the laptop, do
most of the additional tracking and editing in the laptop, and mix in paris
(perhaps streaming out of the laptop into paris). otherwise mixing would
i guess require rendering out from the laptop as 24bit wavs with the same
start time, converting individually to 24 bit pafs (is there a bulk utility
for this?) and importing.
i'm leaning towards sx3 and doing transfers via adat (or even d/a then a/d).
a little worried about unnecessary a/d and the 20bit limitations on adat.
is there a more elegant solution, perhaps?
finally, i'm pretty clueless beyond paris in terms of interface, so something
logical, similar or relatively straightforward to learn (but not necessarily
limited in features) would be great.
many thanks for any thoughts,
dan
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