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Originally Posted by Action508  Bump. Still trying to find out how to sync an analog console, and trying to find out exactly what happens when you move a fader, and how it effects whats in the daw. Does the daw re record each time you play it back so the levels are different? That sounds like a poor idea so I doubt thats how it works. |
How is an analogue console made in the 60s going to change levels (or affect ANYTHING) in a DAW?
you really need to go back to basics...you've got far more questions than can possibly be answered on a thread on a forum. Get a book on basic home recording, which will answer your more basic questions.
For example if I say to sync an analogue console and a multitrack (doesn't have to be a computer, could be tape) one needs to be master, and one needs to be slave. The master generates smpte timecode - the slave locks to it and follows it. The mixing desk computer (separate to the DAW) records the fader moves, and plays them back whenever the multitrack is being played. You're then able to update the mix with more moves, cuts or whatever.
At no point does the mixing desk affect what's in the DAW, nor the DAW affect settings on a mixing desk. This is where you're confusing a controller for the computer (eg C4, icon etc) which doesn't carry audio, and a mixing desk, which does. Part of the confusion stems from the fact some more modern desks CAN act as a controller for a DAW as well - but that's separate to the mixing desk function.
You may understand the above, you may not - if you don't it's your lack of foundations on which to build your knowledge and experience. Mixing desk automation, as FS pointed out, is quite a long way after "basic signal flow" in the recording engineer's manual.