I hope I can explain it without making it sound more complicated that it is.Hi. Forgive my ignorance here, but can someone enlighten me with the "Virtual Tracks" function? Everytime I attempt to create one it erases the one I just did. I thought I could do 8 takes on one track and then go back and review. Thanks in advance!
Hi. Forgive my ignorance here, but can someone enlighten me with the "Virtual Tracks" function? Everytime I attempt to create one it erases the one I just did. I thought I could do 8 takes on one track and then go back and review. Thanks in advance!
hey guys, I have been reading with interest your comments re the DP24. I got mine about a month ago and so far, so good...except; I intend to use the machine as my recording tool and use Sonar 8 Producer to generate midi tracks (primarily drums etc) which I will bounce over at mix down stage.
Problem is, when using DP 24 as 'master' for syncing using MTC, and therefore using the 24's transport controls, the midi tracks in Sonar either start slightly out of sync or drop out entirely at random points during playback/record. I have tried setting up everything in reverse ( Sonar as master, generating MTC), but the DP 24 will not recognise the signal at all.
I have checked and double checked settings in Sonar and the 24 and cannot see why I'm getting these problems - and obviously can't decide which unit is to blame?
Any ideas anyone?
Dual core PC - XP (sp2) - 2G ram - Focusrite Saffire firewire audio/midi interface - Sonar set to ASIO drivers.
hey guys, I have been reading with interest your comments re the DP24. I got mine about a month ago and so far, so good...except; I intend to use the machine as my recording tool and use Sonar 8 Producer to generate midi tracks (primarily drums etc) which I will bounce over at mix down stage.
Problem is, when using DP 24 as 'master' for syncing using MTC, and therefore using the 24's transport controls, the midi tracks in Sonar either start slightly out of sync or drop out entirely at random points during playback/record. I have tried setting up everything in reverse ( Sonar as master, generating MTC), but the DP 24 will not recognise the signal at all.
I have checked and double checked settings in Sonar and the 24 and cannot see why I'm getting these problems - and obviously can't decide which unit is to blame?
Any ideas anyone?
Dual core PC - XP (sp2) - 2G ram - Focusrite Saffire firewire audio/midi interface - Sonar set to ASIO drivers.
Hey Jed, it's interesting that we appear to have similar symptons on different slave devices :/I am using the DP24 as master and the clock as MTC. Boss BR1600CD as slave. It does take about 3 bars for the sound to kick in from the boss once I start the DP24. I have had a problem where the sound from the boss will drop out for a few seconds and then kick back in. It is intermittent and I haven't solved it yet. If you are having the same symptom with a different slave device, it indicates the DP24 might be the source of the issue.
What I do is pick the tempo for the song and record the synced slave device back into channel 23/24 of the DP24. It is taking a couple of goes to get the entire song length recorded with no drop outs but then I use channel 23/24 as my click track and disengage the slave device. It's not too much of an issue for me as I'm recording live drums later to replace 23/24.
I wish the DP24 had the option to loop an audio phrase like the Boss BR1600CD because then it would be easier to change tempos for song writing and arranging.
Oh yeah, I found another limitation as well. In the metronome section, you can only pick whole beats per second!! 60bpm or 61bpm, NOT 60.7bpm.
This is a pain because I have songs half finished on my boss at 117.3bpm than I want to complete on the DP24 but now the bar count wont line up... I am hoping there is a firmware upgrade to fix the MIDI master clock drop outs and to allow partial BPM for the metronome.
Well....I know that the DP24 does not Slave to my Korg Triton Extreme....It Masters like a champ....I set it to Master and the Midi to CLOCK......of course my Triton Extreme is set to EXTERNAL.....For my purposes I don't use MTC....
Don't have a DAW.......but you would need your Sonar to Slave....On the DP24 do you set the MIDI to CLOCK?
It is my understanding that the DP24 doesn't send any Midi, so that is why I can't slave it in my situation....
Set the DP 24 MODE to Master and Sync Generator to Clock......let me know if that works for ya.....
It's what I do.....
Commercial CD import: It worked fine. Will save me tons of time. Hit the CD button - put a CD in the tray - select import track and 15 seconds later the stereo track is in the Audio Depot folder. Then create a new song and import the track from the folder.
I am learning the ins and outs of this machine day by day via trial and error.
One thing I am not too keen on is the panning knob. Suppose I want the guitar lead to go back and forth. It is impossible to go from far left to far right in one sweep...
Say what now!?
Please tell me you're mistaken....'cause if that's true it's, frankly, an incomprehensible design fault by Tascam.
What's the point in having a dedicated pan knob if it doesn't actually work properly?!
I too am confused I just got my dp24 and the pan works fine here..........I take it your using the dp24 as a mastering? and your doing panning on the final mixing master??? I take all tracks to my pc and master in SonarX1.
It pans right to left fully but since it's a digital knob it must be rotated several times around to go from one end to the other. An analog knob has a complete swing of maybe 300-330 degrees from one side to the other.
It will sweep from one side to the other, it just requires MANY rotations.Hi boxy!
I just naturally assumed the pan control could be assigned to pan from one side to t'other.
Like you, I really like to experiment with real-time sweeping of guitars, etc.
Sigh!
Please let us know how you get on with your 'fader idea' to sweep guitars.
Cheers.
On the DP 24 or NEO Does anyone import wav. files which has drum patterns programmed on them already??? If so where do i find them?