Basically, in a fit of rage over not being able to quickly record studio quality audio for my videos I went out and bought the "10 year" setup. I tried a bunch of shit but what ended up working best was: http://www.rme-audio.de/en/products/fireface_ufx-plus.php … http://www.rme-audio.de/en/products/octamic_xtc.php …https://www.tcelectronic.com/Categories/Tcelectronic/Signal-Processors/Compressors-Limiters/FINALIZER-96K/p/P0CJA#googtrans(en|en) …
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Now I do *not* recommend buying this stuff. I started with just an RME Babyface and DAW plugins. That worked just fine, except that workflow added about 30-60 minutes of audio processing time *per video* and it wouldn't work at all for live video due to CPU use.
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Once I threw in a Rocktron Hush http://www.rocktron.com/hush-ultra.html I was able to get very reliable fully live on-air audio and cut 30-60 minutes out of my workflow per video. I went from 1-3 videos a day to easily 10 a day just doing that. Time is money, so it was worth it.
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However, the RME UFX+ was mostly just not being used given its power, so I grabbed the OctaMic so I could connect it to the UFX+ with MADI and now I can do 32 channels of 96K audio like it's nothing. Almost zero CPU usage and easily controlled through software and midi/osc.
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Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm I mean, I basically have enough gear to do full live recordings of just about anything....and I wanted to get back into music....soooooooooo, I took the last few days and wired everything I could into this setup just to see what it can do.
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I have a Drumbrute Impact with 6 audio outs, a Headrush pedal board with stereo i/o, a EHX 95000 looper stereo i/o, micrphone to the hush in stereo, finalizer on AES, a total of around 16 channels all at 96k full stereo recorded into Reaper.
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Then I just tested it by turning everything on and it damn near worked. I had some lost signal causing clipping, so had to boost a couple buffers but after that it records with only about 3% CPU usage and no lag I can feel, and this is off USB3.0. RME's gear is amazing.
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Now, the thing people don't get about the RME equipment is that it is digitally controlled connections inside and you can do all your routing right in their TotalMix UI. It's a super weird UI that took me forever to figure out, but once you do it beats the pants off manual wires
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What you do is you just connect all your gear to the RME ports, making sure to get what's input and output right. Then in TotalMix you can select how anything goes to anything in software, WITH full dynamics & EQ processing. That alone eliminates about 80% of my hassle.
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But the key thing with the RME is that--while you control the devices through the TotalMix UI on your computer--it does not __use your computer to do any of the processing you request__. *This* is what speeds up my audio processing since now my CPU can do useful shit like video.
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So when I say this is doing 16 channels of 96k audio with no lag or CPU, I mean it's doing EQ, auto leveling, expander, compressor, gain, routing, monitoring, AND all in the rackmount, not on my computer. Now I just have to...do some music thing with all that. LOL.
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