Any experienced WL users know how to mimic that workflow when WL is catching? I've been through the ASK tutorial and spent loads of time poking around the menus...couldn't find anything.
Lynx AES16e card arrived today, set it up, Core Audio & soundBlade 2.0 3286 picked up the card instantly. Set it up for External sync on W/C BNC from my Forssell A/D at 44.1kHz, everything locked beautifully. Created a new session in sB, fired up PT's 9.0.2 at 96kHz for playback, set sB to catch at 44.1kHz. Played back PT's & enjoyed a glitch free experience. Mastering through this signal flow was everything I was hoping it would be. With the exception of working/listening to the 16bit 44.1kHz all day (not as rewarding sonically as hearing hi-res 24bit 96kHz all day). After some testing it was quite apparent that the finished product using this work-flow, sounded more natural than an offline SRC'd version of a 96kHz capture. The most noticeable thing I discovered was that the image felt more stable (stronger center), less smearing of transients (drums retained more snap/punch), more body in the LF's, less hype in the HF's. Negatives... distortion from limiting or A/D clipping was a touch more obvious than the 96kHz pass. Good news is that sB 2.0 build 3286 is extremely solid on Intel/Snow Leopard. Looks like I jumped in at just the right time.
Mastering through this signal flow was everything I was hoping it would be. With the exception of working/listening to the 16bit 44.1kHz all day (not as rewarding sonically as hearing hi-res 24bit 96kHz all day).
Dirty, low down, rotten, shameless nerds. Good way to be. So Matt, are you catching at 16-bit as well? I am still going 24 until the last possible moment so any final processing can benefit from the extra depth.When I get 24bit files that is.....
...it's best to capture at 24bit so you can do all fades at the higher bit rate before dithering/exporting the final product to 16bit.
You can do that with WL6 by opening the ASIO plug in the top slot and setting it to external input and selecting the sample rate if you're wanting anything other than 44.1.You then press play to monitor the audio with any plugs you want in slots 2 to 8.Just select render to record and press stop once you've put it down.I couldn't seem to get WL7 (mac) to do this when I tried it this morning.Actually managed to crash it too!
That's actually a pretty big issue with WL7 on a mac!Many ME's will wanna audition their capture via a plug.soundBlade can do that with no problems.
It's times like this I wish I could run two instances of PT's on the same machine.
We capture the file at 16 bit res, since we are doing fades in Source EDL to mix file before processing.
I agree! The workarounds needed to mimic this (basic) function are ridiculous. For real. For me logic is perfect except it can't do assembly, and waveburner (while it's easy on the eyes and easy to use) makes me paranoid with all those well documented problems. Plus it can't catch (no record/input dialog). I dunno...anyone ever tried wave editor?