Tascam X-48 to ProTools?

Jim vanBergen · 4th July 2011

Hey Remotesters-

I have an audio for video gig coming up where the video truck has offered us a Tascam X-48 at a reduced rate for the recording medium. I have a lot of experience using ProTools for live remote recording and have Mackie HDR24s as backups, which port pretty well into ProTools sessions but require time and hardware to do so.

Problem is, the show will be posted in ProTools, and neither the post mixer or I (as the remote recording engineer) know the X-48 or how to port files from it into ProTools. I'm highly concerned about having to spend hours dumping files into hard drives, compiling them (which on the Mackie takes quite a while and is a drag), or unforseen problems. I'd like to just rent a decent ProTools System but the cost is the object right now. Of course, one small mistake and the $ saved can be a terrible mistake if the show is ruined.

Any info, insight, suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance!

muziqfreek · 4th July 2011

well - i'm not as much an expert as some others on the X-48 - but the few times i've used one - transferring a recording from the internal drive to an external one was seamless and relatively painless.... N.B - the external drive has to be formatted in NTFS format which PT unfortunately won't recognise - i therefore partitioned the external drive into 2 partitions - one NTFS and one Mac HFS+ ... used the X-48's onboard utilities to copy from internal to NTFS - and then just dragged and dropped the files from NTFS partition to HFS+ one... a bit of a ballache - but worked 100% - Hope this helps

DannyL · 4th July 2011

Hi Jim;

Steve Remote does this all the time. You should ask him exactly how he loads the files.
I think it is very straight forward and you will not need a bucket of chicken parts or anything.

Best;
Danny

huub · 4th July 2011

The X48 records timestamped Bwav files to an external drive, with the right settings the wavs have the tracknames, these can easily be imported into protools..

very straightforward

Jim vanBergen · 6th July 2011

thanks for your help, guys!

JvB

4th July 2011	#1
Jim vanBergen Lives for gear Joined: Apr 2005 Location: New York Friggin' City Posts: 2,562 Thread Starter	Tascam X-48 to ProTools? Hey Remotesters- I have an audio for video gig coming up where the video truck has offered us a Tascam X-48 at a reduced rate for the recording medium. I have a lot of experience using ProTools for live remote recording and have Mackie HDR24s as backups, which port pretty well into ProTools sessions but require time and hardware to do so. Problem is, the show will be posted in ProTools, and neither the post mixer or I (as the remote recording engineer) know the X-48 or how to port files from it into ProTools. I'm highly concerned about having to spend hours dumping files into hard drives, compiling them (which on the Mackie takes quite a while and is a drag), or unforseen problems. I'd like to just rent a decent ProTools System but the cost is the object right now. Of course, one small mistake and the $ saved can be a terrible mistake if the show is ruined. Any info, insight, suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance!

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4th July 2011	#2
muziqfreek Gear addict Joined: Jan 2004 Location: UK Posts: 374 7 Reviews written	well - i'm not as much an expert as some others on the X-48 - but the few times i've used one - transferring a recording from the internal drive to an external one was seamless and relatively painless.... N.B - the external drive has to be formatted in NTFS format which PT unfortunately won't recognise - i therefore partitioned the external drive into 2 partitions - one NTFS and one Mac HFS+ ... used the X-48's onboard utilities to copy from internal to NTFS - and then just dragged and dropped the files from NTFS partition to HFS+ one... a bit of a ballache - but worked 100% - Hope this helps

4th July 2011	#3
DannyL Gear maniac Joined: Aug 2009 Location: Sao Paulo Posts: 283	Hi Jim; Steve Remote does this all the time. You should ask him exactly how he loads the files. I think it is very straight forward and you will not need a bucket of chicken parts or anything. Best; Danny

4th July 2011	#4
huub Lives for gear Joined: Apr 2005 Location: amsterdam Posts: 1,208	The X48 records timestamped Bwav files to an external drive, with the right settings the wavs have the tracknames, these can easily be imported into protools.. very straightforward

6th July 2011	#5
Jim vanBergen Lives for gear Joined: Apr 2005 Location: New York Friggin' City Posts: 2,562 Thread Starter	thanks for your help, guys! JvB