HD24 & VSTs - How do you do this?

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Just wondering if anyone using an HD24 also utilized VSTs through a computer. In other words, recording music directly onto an HD24, and then adding effects or instruments with a plugin on the computer - and then sending that track to the HD24.

How do you go about this? Do you firewire the tracks from the HD24 to your DAW Program, edit the files, and then sync/record it back onto the HD24? Same question with putting MIDI/VST Instruments onto HD24.

Thanks!!
 
You have to permanently alter the audio file though, and load it back into the HD24. Honestly, I've been doing it for a while now and it is a major pain in the butt. I'm beginning to despise it rather immensely. Maybe I'm just gettin lazy.
 
Would it not be simpler to load all your HD24 tracks into the comp and do all the mixing and editing on that. Thats the way I work using Vegas audio on the comp.

Tony
 
When you move them onto the computer - say you have a clip recorded on the HD24 that is recorded for the last 10 seconds of the song. When you move that to the computer, will it know to go at the end and not the beginning? Or are all the files rendered as a full length wave?

Second, when you process them - just to clarify - are you recording them real time back into the HD24 or are you permanently altering the waves in the computer and moving them back (as mentioned by Cloneboy).

Tony - as for that idea, yes it somewhat would be, provided you have a good D-A converter which was the reason I look at the HD24..I am trying to get away from my soundcard. It also means you need a large storage drive on the computer which was a another reason Im looking at the HD.

Is there a way to Sync Cubase (or any prog) to the HD24 so that I could record VST MIDI into Cubase (as I am hearing the song coming from the HD24) and then record it real time from Cubase into the HD24?
 
Scinx said:
Tony - as for that idea, yes it somewhat would be, provided you have a good D-A converter which was the reason I look at the HD24..I am trying to get away from my soundcard. It also means you need a large storage drive on the computer which was a another reason Im looking at the HD.
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No all your transfers remain in the digital realm they are only DA'd for you to monitor the results. As for the Hard Drive issue , have you seen the prices of HD's recently, they are now peanuts.
 
The reason I am looking at an HD24 is to 1) Get away from the computer 2) Better conversion.

I prefer mixing on an analog board, hence my DA Comment.
As for the hard drive comment, more of a timing issue than a reason. As the 2nd drive is full, I figure I could spring for an HD24XR instead of buying a drive. Theoretically in both instances Id be buying drives over time - so its not an expense issue.

Your idea is great, just doesnt fit me. Thanks for the suggestion!

Do you know anything about syncing between software and the HD24?
 
I'm interested in hearing people's experiences with adat hard rive synching too
 
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