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Originally Posted by TonyCrazyMan How do you store these messages between the sessions? What kind of protocol and sync device is behind this message based communication and automation? Can the messages be exported and imported? How can you recall the settings on your outboard gear all at once between different sessions and projects? |
Wow - ummm, we still use Gigantic Floppy discs to save mixes on our SSL4000 - never did get the Bernouli drives, but that doesn't really come up any more...
Before SMPTE-based automation, you would print mix data onto track 24, and then print any changes during the next pass on track 1, then back to 24, etc.
If you needed more than 24 tracks, you would use SMPTE on both machines, and lock them together with a synchronization device such as a Lynx or SoftTouch, and listen to the lovely wow as the tapes eventually got up to speed and locked.
As far as outboard gear settings, paper and pencil and a very good assistant always came in handy.
OK, I am feeling old now. Time to go play some nice relaxing music on my Edison cylinders...