We've had our first opportunity to use Nuendo Live and one of our CL5s in a live recording situation. The show is being recorded live for later production into a TV show.
Getting Dante Virtual Soundcard and Nuendo Live up and running was a fairly straightforward process, considering the last time I dealt with recording, it was with a good ol' Studer 2-inch 24-track machine, so there's how old I am! It took some head-scratching on my part, but it came together pretty easily. The one thing that was really odd is that it seemed to take quite a while for DVS to show up in the device list of the CL5. I watched, rebooted both Macbook and CL5, and at ome point, left it to get lunch and when I came back, it was mounted and working. And every time thereafter I shut down and powered back up several times, the DVS showed up quickly, just like the RIO boxes show connected (DVS showed as device #3). I played with a couple of iTunes tracks for the rest of the afternoon, recording and playing back and generally getting familiar with the process as I would have to get the visiting engineer's recording rig up and running as I did mine (and this guy had a really serious computer with Glyph Firewire drives and massive memory and processing. He wasn't new at this at all, he just hadn't used this set-up before).
Yesterday was set-up day for this event. We went about setting up his machine for the recording. Again, it went fine, except for the same thing...DVS took about a half-hour to show up as a device in the CL5. We started and a few minutes in, I said "let's just let it sit for a bit and see what happens". A little later, there it is, mounted and ready to go. And again, upon re-boot of his computer, it showed up quickly. He played some pre-recorded tracks that he had imported into Nuendo Live and all appears to be working fine. We did a line check with the band input lines (backline is arriving this morning, in fact, I need to finish this as I'm due at the venue in about 90 minutes!) and everything is showing up in Nuendo.
I know most of you guys probably do this a lot and it's no big deal, but I gave up on working in recording in the early 90s. So this is A Big Deal to me, pretty exiting stuff. I was curious if anyone else had some experience the CLs and recording with Nuendo.
Thanx, everyone be careful with the heat!
Geri O
Getting Dante Virtual Soundcard and Nuendo Live up and running was a fairly straightforward process, considering the last time I dealt with recording, it was with a good ol' Studer 2-inch 24-track machine, so there's how old I am! It took some head-scratching on my part, but it came together pretty easily. The one thing that was really odd is that it seemed to take quite a while for DVS to show up in the device list of the CL5. I watched, rebooted both Macbook and CL5, and at ome point, left it to get lunch and when I came back, it was mounted and working. And every time thereafter I shut down and powered back up several times, the DVS showed up quickly, just like the RIO boxes show connected (DVS showed as device #3). I played with a couple of iTunes tracks for the rest of the afternoon, recording and playing back and generally getting familiar with the process as I would have to get the visiting engineer's recording rig up and running as I did mine (and this guy had a really serious computer with Glyph Firewire drives and massive memory and processing. He wasn't new at this at all, he just hadn't used this set-up before).
Yesterday was set-up day for this event. We went about setting up his machine for the recording. Again, it went fine, except for the same thing...DVS took about a half-hour to show up as a device in the CL5. We started and a few minutes in, I said "let's just let it sit for a bit and see what happens". A little later, there it is, mounted and ready to go. And again, upon re-boot of his computer, it showed up quickly. He played some pre-recorded tracks that he had imported into Nuendo Live and all appears to be working fine. We did a line check with the band input lines (backline is arriving this morning, in fact, I need to finish this as I'm due at the venue in about 90 minutes!) and everything is showing up in Nuendo.
I know most of you guys probably do this a lot and it's no big deal, but I gave up on working in recording in the early 90s. So this is A Big Deal to me, pretty exiting stuff. I was curious if anyone else had some experience the CLs and recording with Nuendo.
Thanx, everyone be careful with the heat!
Geri O
