It’s Friday, and your inSync editor has been through a lot this week setting up new computer systems and wrestling with SCSI. Then, this idea just came from nowhere (those are always the best kind), well, actually it came from a friend, but I’m stealing it for our inSync readers.
Use your sampler to mix down if you don’t have a DAT machine. With a good sampler and plenty of memory this is a snap. For RAM you will need 10 megabytes per stereo minute of 44.1, 16-bit audio. A five-minute pop song can be sampled with 50 MB of RAM. Some samplers even have digital I/O you can use with a digital mixer. Record the mixdown as a sample then save it to a hard drive. You can then SMDI the sample to a Mac using Peak software. Once it is edited in Peak you can open the file up in Toast and burn a CD. Of course you could just buy a good sound card for your computer and mix directly to the computer’s HD, but it isn’t as adventurous!