On 2003-07-12 19:24, eliam wrote:
I might have 2 computers in the studio, but I want to see if I can do it anyway with only one. As for an ADAT adaptor, why would I need one exactly?
If one computer has digi and the other sfp, you need something to exchange audio between the 2 of them, adat... digi as 8 adat ios
Pulsar as 16, so you could use adat loop between pt and sfp...
But if you use sfp and pt on the same PC, you can use only ONE of the driver inside a given software.
For example would you use PT or Logic?
If PT, you can only use pt drivers... so talking with sfp, even on the same machine is going to happen using adat.
If you use logic, you can choose between using pt OR sfp drivers, not both... So again, you'll still have to communicate thru adat for pt and sfp to talk togheter.
SO! To point is, do you WANT pt or do you want inputs (ad/da)? If you want inputs, buy something else, no need for PT here.
You got plenty of choices for 8 or 16 inputs module that use adats.
low price range, you have nehringer that do a 8 inputs/ouputs (balanced analog on 1/4" trs) to adat ios.
In medium price range, you have for example, presonus doing a 16 IO rack that connect to PC using firewire, or using 16 adat ios.
In hi price range, you have apogee that do bunch of differents models.
I think I can use the protools native drivers on the digidesign card along with the asio on the CW, am I right? I haven't really figured it all yet, so thanks for the help!
No you can't.... Drivers don't talk togheter... Anyway, you would have to run both pt and sfp and logic at the same times to use both drivers, and they still would talk togheter. You would still have to use adat between them.
A good setup using pt and sfp would be a pt with plenty of adat plugs, same for sfp.
You would use PT sequencer, and use SFP as a turbo effects rack + a bunch of synths all in realtime, and wired thru adat to get the sounds in PT. So, in SFP you wouldn't even load ASIO drivers. Unless you would want to route for example a standalone VST instrument to record in PT, since protools doesn't support VST or VSTi.
But since PT now support ASIO, you could run PT with Logic, so you wouldn't even need that...
Basicly, PT with plenty of adat ios + sfp + plenty of adat ios running Logic would be somekind of 'the ultimate setup'
But frankly, it just seem you don't know exactly what you want or need yet, do some research...define clearly your needs before spending.
I think a know pretty well where you're heading...It's ok, the digi is a good thing for your needs, specially with the new studio in 2 mountains...
But this will change your way of working alot for sure. Unless you're still using logic (with pt hardware and pt asio), forget your vsti.
If you use sfp asio drivers and pt hardware on the same machine, there is no use at all for pt... execpt maybe for pt input, but you'd still have to route them to sfp thru adat. And using pt hardware only for input seem abit expensive, for average inputs...
For 500$, you can get better inputs, and more inputs, standalone, and still compatible with the 2 mountains studio (adat).
That's a long and annoying post isn't it?
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