Mogers
10-07-2008, 05:24 PM
Hi Bob
I'm preparing for my first major SAC outing, and I've been asked to do the following:
(1) Playback some premixed surround material during the show - with full start/stop/locate control by me at the FOH position. This would best be done, I guess, by playing a SAW EDL, with lots of XY-pan swirling automation. The 6 outputs from SAW would then be routed into 3 stereo inputs in SAC, and sent off to the 6 surround speakers. Control would ideally be done using my Frontier Tranzport.
(2) Record the entire show, in full unprocessed multitrack, for subsequent editing and mixing. This would best be done using the SAC to SAW link.
The thing is - can both of these be done at the same time? Can I run 2 instances of SAW - one for the playback, which will start and stop and jump around, and another that will just keep on recording? Does the SAC<->SAW link allow feeds to and from different SAW instances?
If this can't be done, I'm wondering if I could use the RME Digicheck record function to do the recording, and only have SAW for the playback. But Digicheck will only pick up the ASIO inputs, and therefore won't get the SAW playbacks.
Or maybe I could use a surround capable VST-instrument sample playback thing to fire off the existing recordings instead of playing via SAW. Is there such a VSTI?
Any ideas?
cheers
Mark
I'm preparing for my first major SAC outing, and I've been asked to do the following:
(1) Playback some premixed surround material during the show - with full start/stop/locate control by me at the FOH position. This would best be done, I guess, by playing a SAW EDL, with lots of XY-pan swirling automation. The 6 outputs from SAW would then be routed into 3 stereo inputs in SAC, and sent off to the 6 surround speakers. Control would ideally be done using my Frontier Tranzport.
(2) Record the entire show, in full unprocessed multitrack, for subsequent editing and mixing. This would best be done using the SAC to SAW link.
The thing is - can both of these be done at the same time? Can I run 2 instances of SAW - one for the playback, which will start and stop and jump around, and another that will just keep on recording? Does the SAC<->SAW link allow feeds to and from different SAW instances?
If this can't be done, I'm wondering if I could use the RME Digicheck record function to do the recording, and only have SAW for the playback. But Digicheck will only pick up the ASIO inputs, and therefore won't get the SAW playbacks.
Or maybe I could use a surround capable VST-instrument sample playback thing to fire off the existing recordings instead of playing via SAW. Is there such a VSTI?
Any ideas?
cheers
Mark