Naturally Digital
06-26-2004, 11:17 PM
Hi,
Just trying to "keep it light" with the title! :D Please don't think that I'm trying to 'push through' any features by discussing these types of things. I just think it's great to share ideas on this forum. :)
We were talking SRC on another thread. I actually had a big long reply typed the other day but I hit the wrong key and deleted it by accident. I was so ticked that I didn't bother re-typing it. That is exactly why I don't use web-based email. :mad: Anyway...
We know that with multiple passes/steps, just about anything is possible with SAWStudio. As far as I'm concerned it could stay just the way it is for years and I'd be perfectly happy. The thing is, I've always liked the 'realtime' aspect of SAWStudio and for various reasons I tend to use it that way. Often I record a loopback from somewhere in the chain, onto a new track for my final mixdown/master/process... whatever. I've always favored the idea of a 'one-pass' process while working. I find that making revisions or changes after delivering a test master is sometimes easier or quicker (although sometimes it isn't).
I don't even know whether this could work or not but I've been thinking about this discussion and I came up with a way that I would use Bob's SRC plugin if it existed. I think it could replace some hardware bits if used creatively. Imagine this scenario: :rolleyes: (don't know why that smilie is called 'sarcasitc' or 'roll your eyes'. Personally I like to think of him as 'pondering'...). Let's say...
I receive tracks from a client for mastering. They're delivered on CDR as 24bit/48Khz wav files. I load them into saw, using the common 'staircase' mastering layout (one song per track, end to end, assembled in one EDL). I've set the multitrack resolution to 24bit/192Khz and the realtime SRC to highest quality. All plugins/internal processing would be kept at this resolution. Say I'm monitoring at 96Khz (the limit of my D/A). It would be nice to use a high quality SRC on the output of SAWStudio to drop down to 96Khz. There may be some soundcards that could SRC the stream I guess but my LynxOne (digital out) doesn't know what 192 is.
Now say we've got a piece of hardware we want to use on the Aux bus for reverb and it only supports max. 48Khz SR. In my case it'd be the Mixtreme but it could just as easily be a Lexicon PCM80 connected by s/pdif or whatever. Imagine being able to patch in an SRC to the AUX out, before the hardware. (I know there's no FX patch point there now but hey, it could be added. ;) ) If we were mastering, this might be on an output but you get the idea. Multiple streams going in and out of SAWStudio, at any SR...
Would this even be possible??? I'm just wondering if there isn't some potential for ground-breaking things here.
Just some thoughts.
Thanks for reading.
Dave.
Just trying to "keep it light" with the title! :D Please don't think that I'm trying to 'push through' any features by discussing these types of things. I just think it's great to share ideas on this forum. :)
We were talking SRC on another thread. I actually had a big long reply typed the other day but I hit the wrong key and deleted it by accident. I was so ticked that I didn't bother re-typing it. That is exactly why I don't use web-based email. :mad: Anyway...
We know that with multiple passes/steps, just about anything is possible with SAWStudio. As far as I'm concerned it could stay just the way it is for years and I'd be perfectly happy. The thing is, I've always liked the 'realtime' aspect of SAWStudio and for various reasons I tend to use it that way. Often I record a loopback from somewhere in the chain, onto a new track for my final mixdown/master/process... whatever. I've always favored the idea of a 'one-pass' process while working. I find that making revisions or changes after delivering a test master is sometimes easier or quicker (although sometimes it isn't).
I don't even know whether this could work or not but I've been thinking about this discussion and I came up with a way that I would use Bob's SRC plugin if it existed. I think it could replace some hardware bits if used creatively. Imagine this scenario: :rolleyes: (don't know why that smilie is called 'sarcasitc' or 'roll your eyes'. Personally I like to think of him as 'pondering'...). Let's say...
I receive tracks from a client for mastering. They're delivered on CDR as 24bit/48Khz wav files. I load them into saw, using the common 'staircase' mastering layout (one song per track, end to end, assembled in one EDL). I've set the multitrack resolution to 24bit/192Khz and the realtime SRC to highest quality. All plugins/internal processing would be kept at this resolution. Say I'm monitoring at 96Khz (the limit of my D/A). It would be nice to use a high quality SRC on the output of SAWStudio to drop down to 96Khz. There may be some soundcards that could SRC the stream I guess but my LynxOne (digital out) doesn't know what 192 is.
Now say we've got a piece of hardware we want to use on the Aux bus for reverb and it only supports max. 48Khz SR. In my case it'd be the Mixtreme but it could just as easily be a Lexicon PCM80 connected by s/pdif or whatever. Imagine being able to patch in an SRC to the AUX out, before the hardware. (I know there's no FX patch point there now but hey, it could be added. ;) ) If we were mastering, this might be on an output but you get the idea. Multiple streams going in and out of SAWStudio, at any SR...
Would this even be possible??? I'm just wondering if there isn't some potential for ground-breaking things here.
Just some thoughts.
Thanks for reading.
Dave.