[RWP] Little OT: Looking for a program for recording multipledevices

[Chris Belle]

What do you mean by multiple devices?

If you want to aggregate devices, ie use your usb mic and your other sound 
cards all together in one daw, sonar comes the closest to doing this 
decently in windows.

You can generally only use one asio device at a time in most daws.

Reaper does allow to be re-wired though which is cool, and you could run two 
daws with different devices synced together this way.

Otherwise, your pretty much stuck getting hardware which has enough out-puts 
and inputs to suit your needs, and some drivers let you aggregate similar 
devices together, like two of the same sound cards or audio interfaces 
rather chained together, and there is also in the better interfaces to to 
adat syncing of extra pres for more input channels and such, but I don't 
like that so much because you give up channels to go above 48k with esmux, 
and one has to be the close and it's just a pain in the but so that's why I 
got the mackie 1640i so I could have 16 channels with no fuss and bother.

Audacity is a good little free daw, but it doesn't support low latency 
protocols like asio or wdm and you have to mess with off-sets to get your 
timing right for multi-tracking, so it's ok for free but not a professional 
tool enough in that regard, it's great to dump in stuff to mix for podcasts, 
and I like it's noise reduction too, but not for pro recording so much.

The mac is much better with core audio to aggregate devices.

But I can only speak generally to the mac since I don't own one, our friend 
Patrick and others who are mac users can tell you much more than I can.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Alexander Westphal" <ich at alexwestphal.de>
To: "Reapers Without Peepers" <rwp at reaaccess.com>
Sent: Thursday, June 13, 2013 6:06 PM
Subject: [RWP] Little OT: Looking for a program for recording 
multipledevices


> Hello all!
>
> I am working with Audacity for my audio projects, but I am searching for a 
> program, that is accessible and can record multiple devices in own tracks. 
> Does anyone know a good program for this and for audio editing as well? Or 
> is Reaper able to do this?
> -- 
> Best regards
>
> Alexander Westphal
>
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