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Old 03-19-2023, 03:54 PM   #32
serr
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Sample rate clock sync is still the make or break element. Word clock or digital audio sync'd devices will run for years until the power cuts off one day. Goes from 100 back down to zero trying to sync over USB or virtually.

There's some modern slickness now with a lot of this. Getting the multiple channels digitally from these devices. Stuff in Reaper like the track offset built in. (Useful for that extra MIDI round trip.)

The one thing that blows my mind is specifically Roland's lack of word clock or a digital input on these otherwise flagship-like devices of theirs! They could be SO bulletproof and rule everything!

Good workaround for that V-Drum kit back then!
The album I recorded around that time was a V-Drum kit, live vocals with live fx, my guitar, guitar synth modules and Line6 fake amp and all the delays and loopers all patched into a Mackie 1402 and mixed on the fly. The live stereo is all that was recorded. It turned out just well enough to piss me off about the lost opportunity. And MIDI theremin. Can't forget about that!
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