BrentEvans wrote:I have to have two independent start/stop stereo recordings. I could do it with a separate laptop and Reaper just as easily as two zooms or one zoom or whatever... but it's much nicer and simpler just to have it in the box.
I'll join the forum over there eventually. Just not this week.
As for SAC and stable... mine's been perfectly stable since day one... except for the time the computer crashed becasue the processor fan broke loose, and that's not SAC's fault. I don't run all sorts of crazy stuff on it like some of you guys though... lol...
I see. And I get why you want it all in one box. Of course you mentioned the compact console and I don't know of any of them that would allow for 2 seperate transports going on at the same time. You would have to use the built in recorder and a laptop via some type of digital connection to get that type of control on any thing I am aware of.
As for the stable thing, I would say my SAC system was pretty good. But not as solid as say a Yamaha digital console. For me it is all the little bullshit items that some might not really think of as being unstable per say, but once you use a system where it just fucking works you realize that for all practical purposes they are bugs in SAC. For example, it was rare that I ever got SAC to behave with its remote properly so I could create scenes from the remote. Even with playing with all sorts of drive sharing and spending hours dicking around with dumb ass network settings I maybe got it to fully funtion properly 25% of the time. With AMP it has been so solid with that sort of stuff since the first beta I played with and I have almost forgot what a pain in the ass SAC always was with this shit.
I would say at least once every 6 months or so I would run into an issue where I lost control of some faders or worse those damn Group Latch submasters would get out of sync with inputs and at best you were scambling to regain control or wosrt, the old +20db fader jump would wake everyone up real quick. Luckilly this always seemed to happen during techs, not during a show. So it must have had something to do with multiple remote users logged in and maybe just too many people doing tweaks for SAC's brain. I also had one op who would crash SAC at least once during every run of a production, ussaully while recalling a scene. We never did figure any of these out and of course Bob was never able to reproduce.
Put the SAC-SAW link in use during a show and then other little bugs would pop up, often where SAW would crash and the only way to get it working again was restart SAC and SAW. Since that problem was never totally fixed that is why that one update allowed you to restart SAW after a crash without restarting SAC. It was something, but not really what I would call a fix.
And that of course leaves the obvious lack of progress on the software out of the conversation.
As I've said before. I realize why some will miss their VST stuff, but I can say with no BS that I do not miss dealing with SAC at all. Once I got to play with something better I realized just how much more buggy SAC was than I was really admitting, even to myself.
Anyway, enough on that... I have a shit load of scene writing to do... for my console that has up to 32 REAL DCAs......