GINA24 - DA Conversion (Disribution)

[mark4man]

For GINA 24, Is there a way to route various track outputs from my audio multitracking software, so that different tracks utilize different outputs; & hence different DA Converters? (I'm not asking this relative to the front end...I understand track output assignment. I'm asking relative to internal routing in the GINA 24 Console.)

What I am concerned with is: I believe GINA 24 provides DA conversion for each set of stereo output channels (playback), correct? At present, I have all tracks (for all compositions) set to utilize "Gina24 1/2 Analog Playback". That means that all those tracks are being converted to audio for playback using only one Converter; & the other 3 Converters are doing nothing. Wouldn't I get higher quality audio output if I assigned different tracks to different output channels (track 1 to 1/2, track 2 to 3/4, etc.) so that I was utilizing all of the DA converters instead of cramming all my tracks through just 1/2?

Can this be accomplished? Is it necessary, in that audio quality would benefit by conversion being more evenly distrubuted?

Thanks in advance.

mark4man

 

[Osbick Bird]

I don't think the quality would necessarily be better, but you would gain the flexibility of being able to process the individual outputs by themselves, assuming you have a way to mix everything down outside the PC. If this mixer doesn't sound as good as mixing the signals in the digital domain does, you may end up with worse sound.

On my older 20-bit GINA, it was just a matter of telling the software (Cakewalk, Cool Edit Pro, etc.) to send the track in question to "Gina 3/4 Analog Playback" or "Gina 5/6 Analog Playback" or "Gina 7/8 Analog Playback" and panning appropriately.

OB

 

[mark4man]

OB,

Thanks...you're right. Received an e-mail back from tech support at Echo Audio stating it couldn't be done internally (& of course, as you said, external mixing wouldn't sound nearly as good.)

They also stated that there is no signal degradation with all tracks being processed via one converter.

Thanks again,

mark4man