PCI Interface ?

dpredbird wrote on 1/25/2005, 6:37 AM

I've got a Ramsa DA7 console using analog out to an analog PCI card and thinking of upgrading to a digital PCI card. Will Vegas even record more than two tracks at a time? It seems not. If not, there would be no reason to upgrade my soundcard to an ADAT pipe (which my Ramsa has). If Vegas has no mutlitrack capability I could go with SPDIF or AES instead.
Thanks for your respones and input!

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drbam wrote on 1/25/2005, 7:20 AM

My understanding is that Vegas is capable of recording as many simultaneous tracks as your DAW system and soundcard can handle and support. Users have regularly reported recording 24+ tracks at a time. Again, the limit is determined by the rest of your system – not Vegas.

drbam

pwppch wrote on 1/25/2005, 7:35 AM

Vegas will record from as many audio inputs as you hardware and its driver expose.

You have to set up Vegas to "see" the inputs. This is done from the Audio preference page in Vegas. Typically you will need to choose either the Wave Classic Driver or the ASIO driver for your hardware.

What brand of audio card are you using currently?

What brand of card are you considering?

Peter

dpredbird wrote on 1/25/2005, 9:21 AM

Peter, If Vegas sets up to open as many tracks as the card will allow I'd probably consider an ADAT card some kind. I have looked at a couple of used MOTU 8024s with the 324 PCI card. Not the MK2 or 3, but the original. Any reccomendations? And thanks for the response!

pwppch wrote on 1/25/2005, 10:08 AM

Vegas wont open up automatically to do this. You will have to configure things the way you want depending on the features of your hardware.

There are any number of ADAT capable cards on the market. Just make sure they have ASIO drivers.

The MOTU AudioWire devices are very nice. However, the PCI 324 card is not as good as the 424 card. If you can, get the 424. You wont regret it as it provides a number of far more flexible routings and the Cue Mix app is very nice.

The MOTU Firewire boxes are also very nice. The older 828 Firewire is out of production and does not support any software based mixing, but it is a brute force ADAT and Analog i/o box.

Peter