As we get closer to implementing our Rivendell 2.10.3 network for on the air, I still need to work out how we will produce audio in the studio. Currently we run old XP machines with ENCO along with Adobe Audition 1.0. They can both access the same ASI sound card so the console set up is straight forward allowing the back up studio to be used for production or go on the air in a moment's notice (as long as someone remembers to shut Adobe down when fin9ished before it fills up the RAM and kills ENCO). However, what I am learning about Rivendell is that it takes over the ASI card leaving any other sound app to use ALSA on another card or MB audio. Jack is apparently an audio router but I haven't figured out if it will do what we want yet or how.
Questions: It's been said that production shouldn't be done on a Riv machine. Is that still best advice even if it's not the on-air playout machine at the time? I am looking at Ardour as a possible Linux editor if I could make it talk to the ASI card and use one card and one set of channels on the console. Would I have to shut off Rivendell on that machine to use it? Any suggestions? Otherwise it looks like we keep a backup Riv machine ready in the backup studio and use a Win7 machine with Audion 3.0 for recording and editing, using more channels on the console or an audio switcher. If we go digital, then routing the same console channels between machines would be easier. Comments? Suggestions? Tom Van Gorkom Radio Esperanza Engineering, KRIO AM/FM, KOIR FM Office: 956-380-8150 Cell: 865-803-7427 Rio Grande Bible Institute 4300 S US Hwy 281 Edinburg, TX 78539
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