Re: [LAU] ADAT tape transfer

On Sun, 3 Feb 2013 08:39:22 -0800 linux-audio@email-addr-hidden wrote:
> If I have two ADAT tapes that comprise a 16 track recording but I
> only have one ADAT recorder, can I transfer the tapes one at a time
> into Ardour on my computer via an ADAT cable and, in the end, be able
> to have all 16 tracks still synchronized somehow? I have heard that
> Broadcast Wave files have embedded timecodes that can be used for
> synchronization but I'm not really sure how to create them or, in
> this situation, if they'd even be applicable.

When you transfer the audio over digital cable, that is with the
optical adat, a sample is a sample. So even if you don't get absolute
time-code sync between your adat-machine and ardour, the clock will
still be the same.
So you can just transfer both tapes one at a time, then manually sync
the two groups of tracks and they will stay the same till the end of
the song.

Unlike what you get when you digitize two analog 8-tracks one at a time
without exact time-code-sync...

Have fun,

Arnold

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