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MultiChannel WAV to multiple files for DL32R recordings for Mac and Linux
WK154:
If space is a issue and you have a current iPad that can dual task try Audia or some of the other DAW's for recording. Most record individual channels. You can probably do all you are currently doing in them.
JohnMHoyt:
--- Quote from: WK154 on November 12, 2016, 05:43:36 PM ---If space is a issue and you have a current iPad that can dual task try Audia or some of the other DAW's for recording. Most record individual channels.
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I get this. I've done thousands of shows where I have recorded the entire show using analog and daw. It's fine it works okay. It's just more setup, and something else for people to have to remember to do, with room for errors.
But, the mackie records perfectly. The recordings direct to disk are fantastic.
If the developers would implement an option to record individual tracks to individual wav files, it would be a huge benefit to not just me. I know more than a handful of people who upon finding out that mackie only did multiway format into small chunks (where they had to stitch them together because songs are split in the middle as it creates a new file) they went another way. Lost revenue for mackie, and the image thing too as these people whine about it loudly.
I deal with it because of the convenient ability to record via the master Fader. I don't have to step over to another computer to start it, don't have to worry about my MacBook crapping out again right before a show. I just start the recording.
My punishment is dealing with it in post =)
IF mackie would implement the option to do individual tracks, it would enable every small band to record in the normal way, send the wavs to someone else to mix and master. As it stands, no studio is going to take 2 hours of live music in multiwav and stitch it together, then mix it. No pro studio... maybe home studios.
Kenny Chesney's sound guy, what's his name? Sidephil? Uses a dl32r for their backstage jams... working up new music. Ask him how valuable it would be to record a session and then take the drive and just import the whole session in individual wavs to be able to quickly isolate one song they want a scratch demo of....
RoadRanger:
I'm confused - is there not a simple program available to do that conversion?
My video cameras record .mts files in 2GB "chunks" and I found a simple program that stitches them together into a single file. I can then run a simple a conversion to MP4, with or without normalizing the audio and reducing the resolution (I usually go right to 720P30 - my cameras only record 1080i60).
JohnMHoyt:
--- Quote from: RoadRanger on November 15, 2016, 01:51:10 AM ---I'm confused - is there not a simple program available to do that conversion?
My video cameras record .mts files in 2GB "chunks" and I found a simple program that stitches them together into a single file. I can then run a simple a conversion to MP4, with or without normalizing the audio and reducing the resolution (I usually go right to 720P30 - my cameras only record 1080i60).
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Maybe someone can give us a simple process to do the following.
Convert several hours of dl32r recordings which are multitrack wav files, into individual channels, of one single wav with no gap in them.
I record from 18 to 26 channels at each show.
If I had 18 to 26 wav files that were gapless, that would rock.
My current process is using audacity, I load the first saved file, do my mix, then save each song to two track stereo.
Ultimately one song will be split to the next file.
So, write down the level of each channel, and the l/r pan
Load the next file, set the mix to what I wrote down, save the half song, then any other songs.
Load the first half of a split two track song and add the 2nd, remove the gap.
Adding effects, eq'ing etc, this way is a nightmare.
I can't use protocols because I have lost my ilok dongle and don't have a backup.
I have 30-50 songs on each of these gigs.
RoadRanger:
https://www.sounddevices.com/products/accessories/software/wave-agent ?
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