Hey Brian On Jun 14, 2010, at 4:23 PM, Bryan Smart wrote:
> Besides Pro Tools, your only other professional accessible solution is Sonar. > You'll have to setup BootCamp on your Mac, and boot in to Windows to run it. > Thanks for your response. I am not willing to run windows. I guess I will try some of the other solutions and see how I get along with them. > You'll need: > Snip... > > Sonar doesn't impose artificial limitations on how many inputs you can record > at once. You just need the interface and computer to pull it off. A newer MBP > can record to 24 tracks at once via Sonar easily. However, if you're working > exclusively from the internal drive, you'll need to live with some latency in > order to have everything operate smoothly. A higher-end iMac or Mac Pro can > handle it no problem at all. I don't know of any 24 input Firewire interfaces > that can be stacked off-hand. Most that I've seen stop at 16 inputs. If > you're using a Mac Pro, though, you can high-end Lynx or RME cards, which > will work fine with Sonar under BootCamp. The trick, of course, is getting > something that can also be used with Pro Tools when you need to operate on > that side. > Like I said in past posts I was really hoping to be able to use the Echo Audiofire 12. I was going to get a second one and slave them together with coreaudio. > I haven't tried this, but Reaper, at least on Windows, might be able to help > with the tracking on the cheap. There is access to it via Jaws. It's mixing > capabilities aren't on the level of Sonar or Pro Tools, but it might be able > to track that many inputs for you, if raw tracking is all that you need. > > Let us know how it works out. > I just got off the phone with a salesman at sweetwater. It's even more then I thought it would be. $8000 for just an hd1 core card and $3,000 for each aurora. The hd2's are $10,000. $16,000 grand for a fancy tape machine. I might as well buy a radar. I'm gonna give IZ a call. I guess I'll still buy the low-end MPowered version when it happens. Thanks --FC > Bryan
