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FP wrote on 3/16/2000, 7:37 AM
What exactly do you mean by drift?

I'm assuming your tracks are going out of sync in some way, but are
you saying that don't play back properly or that they actually move
within vegas so you have to put them back in place?

I've done exactly what you describe and have never had a problem like
remotely like it? Sounds frightening though.
saff wrote on 3/16/2000, 11:39 AM
Are you recording each of the 8 tracks seperately (i.e. recording
track one into Sound Forge, saving it, then recording track two into
Sound Forge, saving it, etc.)? If so, then there's no way for you to
know that each .wav file of each track is starting at the same
identical point as on the analog tape. Even If you had a click track
on each of the eight tracks and tried synching up (visually, I
suppose) each track's copy of the click, I doubt you'd be able to
synch eight tracks flawlessly. This is in part due to that fact that
in addition to ensuring that the tracks all start at the same
identical time, there are other factors with analog decks, including
extremely slight, almost imperceptible, speed variations that can
make the same track played back twice differ in length by a
millisecond or more; not perceptible in real time, but when trying to
make multiple tracks synch, I'm sure it would start to become much
more apparent!

The only way to transfer multitrack masters from an analog deck into
Vegas for mixing/editing is to use an 8-input digital sound card and
an 8-channel A/D converter (Frontier Dakota WaveCenter PCI or Sonorus
Studi/o w/ outboard 8-channel A/D converter) or an 8-channel card
that comes with built-in A/D conversion (Layla, Sek'd Siena, etc.),
so you can record all 8 tracks *at the same time*.

I do the 16-track equivalent of this all the time with my Tascam
MSR16 and my Frontier Dakota card, using ADATs as my A/D converters.
Works flawlessly with Vegas.

Luaole Kaluna wrote:
>>I threw down 8 seperate old tracks from my Analog Multi-
>>track to SoundForge to edit individually and then threw
>>them all on VEGAS one by one, peice by peice. Now no
>>matter how much I line up the tracks - they freakin' drift
>>so bad, it ain't even funny - ummm, what in the world is
>>going on???
Flatulus wrote on 3/16/2000, 7:28 PM
Here it is, get ready. All the tracks are running at different
speeds. You need to move them all (at the same time) from your
multitrack recorder to Vegas then edit them individually in SF.

Luaole Kaluna wrote:
>>I threw down 8 seperate old tracks from my Analog Multi-
>>track to SoundForge to edit individually and then threw
>>them all on VEGAS one by one, peice by peice. Now no
>>matter how much I line up the tracks - they freakin' drift
>>so bad, it ain't even funny - ummm, what in the world is
>>going on???