>> >> * no real-time CD recorder (i have a somewhat working prototype) > >> >this is important to people? why? > >> to me, anyway. so that i can burn CD's direct from audiostreams coming >> from external devices without having to first record them to disk. if >> a client comes to the studio and they have a DAT they want to burn to >> CD, i want to be able to that in one pass. similarly if we have the >> mix on a set of ADAT tapes plus the Digital 8 Bus mix editor, i want >> to be able to burn that without creating a WAV file first. > >Even the Alesis MasterLink buffers to disk first. Can you say 'Buffer >Underrun"? Real-time burning is hard to do right, without a faster-than >real-time buffered source. Of course, BURN-Proof helps.
sorry, but this is not true. go and get a tascam dedicated cdrw unit. it works 100% of the time, perfectly, with a s/pdif real time input. at least, the one i have access to does. it can only do "audio time" burning, but given the dedicated nature of the beast, thats ok. i very much doubt that its internal mechanism is significantly different than the one in my yamaha computer-mounted burner. the technique to implement this is very simple, and even cdrecord does it: you just buffer N seconds of the real time source before you start the burn. --p
