Re: Recording in SAW
Originally Posted by
mr_es335
Good day,
I would very much appreciate some assistance with the following...
A few questions:
1. I assume that this level adjustment is performed entirely on the audio interface being used...correct?
2. What is the preferred setting for Options > Auto Audio-Monitor Switching Protocol?
***8226; There are four options: 1) Off, 2) RME ZLM Protocol, 3) Tape Style - Playback / Input Switching, and 4) Tape Style - Input Always On.
3. Do the tracks get the signal from the device ins or from the MultiTrack?
Thanks in advance!!
Input level (rec level) is typically done on the physical interface, yes.
Preferred setting for audio monitor switching is personal preference or task-specific. I usually go with OFF, and use my external hardware for monitoring mixing. Sometimes it's handy to have SAW do the monitor (in vs. out) mixing for you, though. Try the different approaches to understand the differences. I think it's all pretty well explained in the Help. RE: RME ZLM Protocol... IIRC, this allows you to do in-the-box monitor mixing with no latency (using the RME protocol/drivers), but only with RME hardware, of course. Whereas the tape style options suffer the latency of SAW's settings, necessarily. Sorry to be so vague. I haven't used these settings in a long while.
The input switching option can be handy when you're moving back and forth between tracking and playback a lot. Which is more typical, I think. Always on means you're always hearing the input, which can be annoying if you don't always want to be hearing the input.
>>Do the tracks get the signal from the device ins or from the MultiTrack? <<
Device ins, typically. If there's audio on a track, and you record on that track, you'll record right over the existing audio. However, in addition to mono and stereo device inputs, you can also select different MT tracks as the input for a given record track. E.g., you can set track 2's record source as track 1, and track 1 data will be recorded on track 1. Not sure why you'd want to do that, but maybe it's intended as a way to re-assign record inputs if tracks' input sources are set to input devices and not "MultiTrk". I'm still not clear on what that would gain you, so I'm probably missing something, here.
Haven't played with most of these options in a long time, so others may want to check my work.
Last edited by Dave Labrecque; 04-17-2020 at 09:07 AM.
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