MultiChannel WAV to multiple files for DL32R recordings for Mac and Linux

[JohnMHoyt]

Okay, I'm back to having a little time to play with the recordings....

Let's say I use SoX and want to join two multi-wav files together - how does one stitch them together... I tried the sox -m firstfilename secondfilename newfilename thing, and it just created a new file the same size as one of the specified files but did not add the first to the second.

If sox isn't the tool, what tool is available to me?   I know, we talked about this, but now I've got actual time to play with it =)

Thanks!

[Topsøe]

RME has a bach prossersor software:
Fireface UFX - RME Multichannel WAV File Batch Processor
That can do it it has some naming rules though , so the file names has to follow a specific pattern

[JohnMHoyt]

RME has a bach prossersor software:
Fireface UFX - RME Multichannel WAV File Batch Processor
That can do it it has some naming rules though , so the file names has to follow a specific pattern

I cannot figure out how to make it add a 2nd, 3rd, 4th, etc multi track wav to the first one and save it as a new file.   

For instance, last night I recorded 25 channels with the DL32R. Each set is about an hour, and the recording was started at the beginning of each set, so I have half a dozen of these multitrack wav files and I would like to combine them into one big multitrack.

[RoadRanger]

Did you read post #25 in this thread?

[JohnMHoyt]

Did you read post #25 in this thread?

The RME utility seems to work fine but is particular about input filenames - The must be:
UFX01_00.wav
UFX01_01.wav
etc.
The two digits after UFX can be any two digits but obviously the same for all the files in the set.

This utility can generate a HUGE single multichannel WAV file choosing the "Multichannel" option - supposedly some DAWs can directly import that.
It also has a "1-Channel Files" option to generate all separate mono WAV files.


That One?   I just must be dense...    let's say I have a folder with 7 files (a whole set) from the dl32r.
I want to join them all together into one file.

Can you talk me through that whole process with this tool please? I read the help file, it didn't help me.

[JohnMHoyt]

OMG, I *AM* dense....   

You quite literally meant that the filenames had to be changed to their format.  ugh.
Then you select the first file in the folder named that, and edit the output name and type.
It automatically selects the last file (highest number)...   And hit start.

This is sure not an elegant process =(

[dpdan]

John, you are correct,
it is pathetic

[JohnMHoyt]

John, you are correct,
it is pathetic

It's just a lot of work when other mixers and stand-alone recorders give me individual tracks straight to a USB hard drive (or flash drive even).   It's so easy on other devices to just hit "record" and let it record a set, or heck, I've done entire 2-3 hour events and had 18-24 individual tracks right off the preamps and it imports directly into any DAW without any stitching multitracks together, no fuss, no muss.

Seems like they could just have an option, so whoever wants multitrack.wavs can have that, and flip a config item switch and boom, individual wavs that are not broken up every x minutes.

That is my only real complaint about the DL32R, everything else works pretty darn great on it.

[dpdan]

I agree

[RoadRanger]

The help file for the RME utility does a great job explaining why segmented multichannel wav files are necessary.

[dpdan]

I have no problem understanding multichannnel wav files.

I have no time for all the crap that is involved in transferring, converting, editing those files.
It is just sad that this format is used with the DL32R.