Best program to take BWAV of 8 tracks on USB and load up to mix

[lmgoldsmith]

Reliable and Musical. The K.I.S.S. principle applies.

I'm giving thanks for your insights.


Larry Goldsmith

[David Spearritt]

Originally Posted by lmgoldsmith

Reliable and Musical. The K.I.S.S. principle applies.

I'm giving thanks for your insights.


Larry Goldsmith

If you told us actually what you are trying to do and/or the problems you are having, we might be able to assist.

BTW, software isn't musical.

[lmgoldsmith]

Ok...I have a Nagra VI, record 8 channels of live audio onto USB, and want to take that USB to a software program to upload the 8 BWAV streams and mix.

For years I thought of getting a Pyramix system and then of course there is ProTools, etc..

Thank you for any insights anyone might have...


Larry Goldsmith

[Matti]

Abouts any that understands BWAV, Protoolls, Nuendo/Cubase, Samplitude/Sequoia etc
-and mentioned Pyramix

Matti

[David Spearritt]

Originally Posted by lmgoldsmith

Ok...I have a Nagra VI, record 8 channels of live audio onto USB, and want to take that USB to a software program to upload the 8 BWAV streams and mix.

For years I thought of getting a Pyramix system and then of course there is ProTools, etc..

Thank you for any insights anyone might have...


Larry Goldsmith

Larry, I do this exact same thing and use Pyramix, which has a steep learning curve but is wonderful software which I love using now. It is very productive.

I have Reaper and Wavelab 7 and neither understands and can deal with poly BWAV's properly.

[Plush]

Hiya Larry,

I'm a SADiST running SADiE V. 6 native. With this program (and any proper editor), it is a drag and drop operation almost.

Multi-channel WAVS populate on the screen always in sync and ready to be massaged and edited.

It is worth a look. I also like Pyramix for sure, although I do not run it here.

[Petrus]

Originally Posted by David Spearritt

I have Reaper and Wavelab 7 and neither understands and can deal with poly BWAV's properly.

Which Reaper? Version 4 can handle poly WAVs, at least it can record and read 4 track Soundfield raw files and the Soundfield plugin works just fine. It is free to try for a month, then is only $70 or so, while the cheapest Pyramix is around $500 and the full version six times that.

[taturana]

I've always done this with Sonar, from various bwav sources , and it works perfectly fine... you just have to enable the bwav time offset it in the options, but it might be enabled by default...

[Larry Elliott]

Also using Nagra VI and Pyramix with great success. OT question, what are you using to feed the 4 digital ins on Nagra. I'm looking for a simple solution. Thanks

Hmm just re read OP and it seems you may be using 6 inputs and recording the mix...

Larry

[MichaelPatrick]

Wave Agent software from Sound Devices is a free download. It can split poly files into any combination such as mono, stereo and multi-channel files. It will also join two mono files into a single interleaved stereo file. Highly recommended.

Download Wave Agent 1.16 | Sound Devices, LLC

[oldeanalogueguy]

Originally Posted by lmgoldsmith

Reliable and Musical. The K.I.S.S. principle applies.

I'm giving thanks for your insights.
Larry Goldsmith

drag and drop to pc from usb memory stick

open in program of your choice

what is the problem you are having ????????????

[David Spearritt]

Originally Posted by oldeanalogueguy

drag and drop to pc from usb memory stick

open in program of your choice

what is the problem you are having ????????????

As Larry stated, the problem is that most DAW's cannot natively read and load into sync'd tracks, poly BWAV files.

Which Reaper? Version 4 can handle poly WAVs,

Reaper4. It does not load poly BWAV into separate synchronised tracks.

[timlloyd]

Originally Posted by David Spearritt

Reaper4. It does not load poly BWAV into separate synchronised tracks.

Not immediately on load-in, no. This is because it can play poly BWAVs directly on a single track (up to 64 channels), so it isn't necessary to separate automatically as soon as a file is loaded.

But, load up a poly file and run the action "Item: explode multichannel audio or MIDI to new one-channel items" and the result is a folder track containing all channels of the poly as separate tracks, aligned as they were within the original file.

I don't know how Pyramix and others handle this, but this action will separate the file into its constituent channels as new mono files on disk. Maybe this is what you mean?

[lmgoldsmith]

Is this doable easily in Nuendo or Logic or Protools 10? Thanks!