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Kris Gerhardt Member	posted 03 October 2001 09:50 Just a (possibly) quick question. I have recently been approached by a fairly successful local musician to "Kyma-fy" one of his songs. I've never attempted this sort of thing before but it sounds both fun and a good challenge so....... He has 16 tracks of audio on a Korg D1600. What is the best way of importing his 16 tracks into Kyma? Originally I had suggested burning a CD-r with each 'Korg-track' as a separate audio track but I'm not entirely convinced that this is the correct option. I guess the thing I am most worried about is keeping the original tracks in sync with each other. It may be possible to go directly from the back of the D1600 into the Capybara but then I would still have to sync tracks 1 - 8 with 9 - 16. I know that this should be a simple problem to solve but I just can't get my head around it. Any suggestions? Kris IP: Logged
SSC Administrator	posted 03 October 2001 10:24 Aren't the Korg tracks already digital audio files? If so, then perhaps they could burn a CD-ROM for you with the WAV or AIFF files on it, one file per track. IP: Logged
Kris Gerhardt Member	posted 03 October 2001 10:33 Yes, I believe the Korg tracks are digital audio files (I'm not sure what else they would be)but would a CD-ROM of separate .wav files eliminate the problem of sync'ing the tracks? It is possible that I am worried about a non-issue but my question stands none-the-less. Thanks for the reply Kris IP: Logged
SSC Administrator	posted 03 October 2001 11:46 If you put the files as DiskPlayers into a timeline and give each one the same start time, there's no reason why they would not stay in sync. IP: Logged
Kris Gerhardt Member	posted 03 October 2001 12:03 Thanks, I'll give it a try. If I come up with anything truly revolutionary :-) I'll let you know. Peace Kris IP: Logged
pete Member	posted 03 October 2001 13:04 Hi Kris I think you should think about what you are going to do once you imported them. Kyma is a very powerful tool but doing the job of a hard disc recorder is not its most suitable job. Remember that you can only read a few tracks off of your computers hard disc at the same time. If your lucky you might get 8 tracks. If you are going to load them into kyma RAM then you are limited in duration, so the track would have to be very short. If it's not important to hear the rest of the tracks when you are kymafying one or two of them then there is no problem but if you do then it's probably better to have the Korg sitting along side. If thats no possable then you could try using hard disc recording software on your computer and making sub mixes, (just for monitoring), so that you reduce the number of tracks needed to be played. just a thought. IP: Logged
SSC Administrator	posted 03 October 2001 17:19 Since Kris has a Capybara-320 with a PCI interface card running under Windows, he should be able to play back around 19 mono tracks or 10 stereo tracks directly from the disk without having to use RAM or submixing. IP: Logged
pete Member	posted 04 October 2001 06:50 oophs I seems Kyma efficiancy has been creeping up and I haven't been keeping note. sorry. Thats the great thing about Kyma, what you buy and what you endup with are so different. It grows and improves so much without spending one penny (cent) more, it's so easy to lose track (or tracks). [This message has been edited by pete (edited 04 October 2001).] [This message has been edited by pete (edited 04 October 2001).] IP: Logged
Beale Member	posted 15 October 2001 00:07 Would this also be true for a current Mac (G4) running a Capy PCI card? If so, I might have found yet another way to completely lose track of time with my Kyma rig... -beale QUOTE]Originally posted by SSC: Since Kris has a Capybara-320 with a PCI interface card running under Windows, he should be able to play back around 19 mono tracks or 10 stereo tracks directly from the disk without having to use RAM or submixing.[/QUOTE] IP: Logged
SSC Administrator	posted 15 October 2001 09:03 For the Macintosh with PCI, you should be able to get 16 mono or 8 stereo tracks. IP: Logged

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