airborne50caliber
12-22-2005, 11:22 AM
Time to open a discussion thread instead of another help thread.
So within the next week I'm getting the ESI Quatafire 610 interface.
http://www.thomann.de/prodbilder/167767.jpg
I am getting it because of its 4 analogue inputs, but it also has 8 analogue outputs. This means during mixdown in Logic, I'll be able to route each track to a different output (If I have more than 8 in a project, I'll stem-mix beforehand), take each output to a desk channel and mix the proper old way, with real faders and with immediate access to my rack. This should be a much harder way of working and I'm guessing I'll never do the final version of any important mix this way, due to the reduced control I will have, but I'm very attracted to the immediate control of everything (Kinda like a control surface but way better) and the real stuff i shove onto the signals from the rack. If my desk had solo-in-front it would be even better, I'm very into the 'melting-into-the-mix' thing and thats very hard to do with the workstation workflow. But only big-*** studio desks have solo-in-front.. any ideas how to get round this?
Just to see what you guys think about the whole thing and maybe inspire some people and give em ideas. It might be a very common thing with people who have firewire interfaces and this thread would therefore be stupid and ridiculous, but I've never heard of computer studios doing this kinda thing, I stole the idea straight off SSL studios.
So within the next week I'm getting the ESI Quatafire 610 interface.
http://www.thomann.de/prodbilder/167767.jpg
I am getting it because of its 4 analogue inputs, but it also has 8 analogue outputs. This means during mixdown in Logic, I'll be able to route each track to a different output (If I have more than 8 in a project, I'll stem-mix beforehand), take each output to a desk channel and mix the proper old way, with real faders and with immediate access to my rack. This should be a much harder way of working and I'm guessing I'll never do the final version of any important mix this way, due to the reduced control I will have, but I'm very attracted to the immediate control of everything (Kinda like a control surface but way better) and the real stuff i shove onto the signals from the rack. If my desk had solo-in-front it would be even better, I'm very into the 'melting-into-the-mix' thing and thats very hard to do with the workstation workflow. But only big-*** studio desks have solo-in-front.. any ideas how to get round this?
Just to see what you guys think about the whole thing and maybe inspire some people and give em ideas. It might be a very common thing with people who have firewire interfaces and this thread would therefore be stupid and ridiculous, but I've never heard of computer studios doing this kinda thing, I stole the idea straight off SSL studios.