8 in, 8 out

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I have a PC, an ADAT, and an Aardvark dig I/O that lets me import and export to and from the ADAT to my pc.

I need help: I want to record in 8 audio tracks at the same time. I do this no problem with cakewalk. But what I REALLY want to end up with is 8 discrete WAV files of each track. You see, I archived 8 individual tracks of audio info on each adat track. it isn't really multitracked; it is just 8 tracks of info.

Does anyone have a tool that would let me record 8 tracks into my PC at one time, creating 8 unique WAV files that I could then edit individually?

Does cakewalk keep all the audio it records as individual WAV files/tracks somewhere or is it in a proprietary format?
 
Not sure I understand your question. If you set up 8 individual tracks in Sonar, each with their own unique input source, that is exactly what you will get. :confused:
 
dachay2tnr said:
...If you set up 8 individual tracks in Sonar, each with their own unique input source....
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Wait buddy... he didn't say it was Sonar... What Cakewalk do you use, pmoran?
 
James Argo said:
Wait buddy... he didn't say it was Sonar...
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That shouldn't matter. As long as he's able to record 8 tracks a time... ;)
 
moskus said:
That shouldn't matter. As long as he's able to record 8 tracks a time... ;)
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Well, I thought he recorded 8 tracks into ADAT. He asked if he can "dump" the whole 8 ADAT tracks into 8 Cakewalk tracks separately at once. I assume so far he didn't have problem "dumping" 8 ADAT tracks into 2 Cakewalk tracks (or did I miss something here?). Older Cakewalk like HS2002 will only lets you record 2 tracks simultaneously. So it does matter...

;)
Jaymz
 
What he said was that he had archived 8 tracks of audio onto each ADAT channel and now he wants to separate them back out once he transfers them into whatever Cakewalk program he's using. Or at least that's what it sounded like to me:

pmoran said:
IYou see, I archived 8 individual tracks of audio info on each adat track. it isn't really multitracked; it is just 8 tracks of info.
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I don't know a lot about ADAT, but I don't think there's a way to separate out the different tracks once you've combined them into one ADAT channel. When you do that you're creating one .wav file made up of all the other files. Essentially, you are commiting to your mix at that point.

The question would be- "Why'd you go and do that??"

Do you still have the original tracks before you combined them in the ADAT? If so, you can transfer them into whatever program you're using and put them each on a different track. Once in SONAR or whatever you're using, you can work whatever magic you like on them!

Ted
 
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pmoran said:
Does cakewalk keep all the audio it records as individual WAV files/tracks somewhere or is it in a proprietary format?
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This is the only part I understood.

The answer is yes, Cakewalk stores each track as a seperate wav file, that can be played on its own in a media player
 
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