Originally posted by pianodano:
Hi YamahaAndy,
Thanks for your reply. I will be looking forward hearing what you think with a decent sound card. I bet it will sound great through your 824's. I must say that I love my pair. BTW, I know you ruled out the DM24 with IF/FW, but I really believe Tascam will do the right thing shortly and release the update so that the IF/FW will run at 96K. The mixer is a joy yo use for me because I have a lot of outboard effects. I add some effects "in the box", send some out of the box via track busses to outboard effects and usually send everything back in the box, plus I have plenty of inputs to keep every thing plugged in at all times. About 6 mos back, I finally got the DM24 controlling Sonar including the auotmation (either in the box or DM24 automation). The only disappointment I have ever had with Tascam is that it took over them over a year to release the IF/FW. I almost bought the MOTU/w tdif but I am glad I waited. The set up works flawlessly. I am now just about ready to get the UA Studio pak but it seems like a lot of the guys are having trouble with it over at the Cakewalk forum. My whole system is running so well I am really afraid of introducing anything that could screw it up. I would be very interested in knowing if you have any thoughts on this.
Thanks,
Danny
[This message has been edited by pianodano (edited 03-14-2005).]
Hi!
Yeah I finally chose to go analog. I did it for a number of reasons, the nr one reason was the price. The price wouldn't have been so high if I would have been able to record @ 96 KHz with the Tascam. But I also wanted to be able to play virtual instruments at 192 KHz sampling rate because such samples will be reality within a couple of years. The second reason was that I thought I wouldn't at least now start mixing manually and therefore wouldn't lose anything with a high quality analog mixer with high quality mic pre amps, since there would be only one A/D conversion in the signal path on the recording. I plan on MIDI mixing in the computer with my keyboard tracks and the audio tracks manually in the computer, but if this will be efficient enough remains yet to be seen. It will have an impact on the recording process and that might become a problem but I thought in that case I could buy a programmable USB MIDI controller. I also imagined doing digital mixdown, but when I started thinking about digital outboard effects it became way too expensive for me. So I thought on this kind of a budget I get much sound quality for the price even though I go analog and I thought I would still be able to work pretty flexibly. But I admit it would be nice with digital mixing automation together with the sequencer.
Regarding the UA Studio PAK I don't know so much about it yet, I know what it does, but I haven't tested it or read any reviews of it yet so I think I cannot comment on it at this moment. But effects are very important and getting great effects at 192KHz speaks for itself.
I myself won't go with Cakewalk. I think it is not as robust or powerful as Cubase SX. I have tried all the versions of it. To me Cubase SX seems a little more professional working with and the Nuendo package from Steinberg really tells me they have deep knowledge. The SX v2.2. should be pretty stable.
BTW, I bought a new hard drive today, a Maxtor Diamondmax 10 @ 300GB and SATA, NCQ. I will spend 10% - 40% (30GB - 120GB) of it max and it will be a dedicated drive. It is faster and quieter than a lot of SCSI drives and is great value for the money right now. Everything will be fresh when my studio is finished.
Danny, I would like to know more about the UA studio PAK. Well, a friend of mine is waiting for me to visiting him so I have to run now...
Best regards,
YamahaAndy