inputs/outputs?
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Posted on Nov 10, 2002 02:23 pm
godahabit
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i understand why you need inputs for recording.. but why outputs.. on each channel? i dont get this!
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Nov 10, 2002 02:40 pm its all about what you plan on using the computer for. Not everyone has a CD burner. Some people may prefer to record each track on their PC and then mix it down with an analog mixer and tape machine, or maybe someone wants to use outboard effects processors, then the outputs become aux sends. The beauty of using a computer is you are so open to do anything you want because more is available to you. Whatever you could imagine outputs being used for, that's what they are for :O) -j
LokiCone PokerMember
Since: Apr 07, 2002
Nov 10, 2002 04:35 pm Yeah, say that I'm running my mixer into my computer,then from the computer to an effects rack, then from the rack back into the computer, then from the computer to a dat and outboard CD burner and my speakers... I'd need a few Outputs to do that
Nov 10, 2002 09:27 pm why wouldnt you just record the track.. then just add the effect on the program (plug in i think?) how would you add an effect from a rack anyway if you have to plug it back into the computer anyway? why not just instrument.rack.computer? see i dont get it!
Nov 11, 2002 01:39 am >>how would you...
with a full duplex card (most are) you can playback and record at the same time. The outputs send to the outboard effects and then return to the soundcard inputs.
>>instrument.rack.computer
The main arguement about applying effects before recording is that they can't be undone.
Really, you can whatever you want. There are no rules. The pro's swear by their racks full of effects, but I do all my editing once it's in the "digital realm" so to speak. I have dozens and dozens of free VSTs that can do more than what I need them to do, but then again I'm just a hobbyist (sp?)
LokiCone PokerMember
Since: Apr 07, 2002
Nov 11, 2002 02:32 am heh I'm not saying my example was practical, just giving an example. my chain is just mixer to soundcard to app out to headphone amp and monitors
Nov 11, 2002 05:26 am godahabit, some people are very attached to their hardware effects. Plugins do it, but some are not as good. Take reverb for example...hardware reverbs are used for a couple reasons, one because many fel the outboard, rack mount reverb units sound better, and because reverb can be a very system heavy plugin to use. There is a whole lot of math going on in the PC while running a reverb plugin and it can dog-down a system.
For reasons like that some people run tracks back out of the PC, run it through some effects and then back in.
Also, I used to use multiple outs to have one pair of outs going to my reference amp, one pair going to my headphone amp and one pair running back into the mixer, so which ever funtion I needed at the time I just assign the outs rather than go messing around with my cables.
Noize2uCzar of MidiAdministrator
Since: Apr 04, 2002
Nov 11, 2002 09:04 pm Yup, attached is a good way to frase it. I go in 3 differant dirrection's depending on what I want to do. Sometime's playing through the effect give's you a differant feel for the instrument, and make's you play it differant than you would if it were dry (no effect). But I alos will record the track dry, just so I can go back and try something else if I like, or don't like what it sound's like in the mix with the effect I recorded. I use a lot of outboard processor's just because there are some thing's you just can't do with DSP FX. I have patche's on some of my outboard gear I could never duplicate in my PC. But in the same note, there are thing's I can do in the PC with DSP that I could never do with my outboard gear. So it work's both way's. It is really just a matter of preferance.
