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llllllllllllllllllll wrote: Sun Dec 15, 2024 10:56 am
Still will never buy an off the shelf Windows laptop for recording ever again.

I have never had "great" luck with most Windows laptops unless you do an total wipe and fresh install of windows and the associated manufacturer drivers. The off the shelf installs are just garbage. Decent gaming laptops and laptops made for video production (like VMix) seem to do very well, but are spendy. I'm 90% a Windows person, but when it comes to laptops, Apple definitely kicks the as of most PC makers as far as hardware and software reliability goes. My stupid M1 Air from 4 years ago is still doing pretty great for most daily tasks and non huge audio and video loads. Computers suck.

Snuck upstairs after wrapping presents. Experimenting with recording with only ribbon mics and mixing LCR on the same song. I could get used to this.

Update on the Stagetec Nexus system.
So the first system, pictured previously, is 21rack spaces of ridiculousness, roughly 1.75 shitloads of line level AD and DA, and nearly as much AES/EBU I/Os.
Second system is another 6 rack spaces including 24 mic AD's, 8 line DA's and 16 AES/EBU on RJ45.

System 1 will do 44.1, 48, 88.2 and 96kHz. System 2 only does 44.1 and 48 kHz (currently).

To bridge the gap there and pipe multichannel in/out of my PC, I got a Euphonix FC726. It's a 56 channel digital format converter with sample rate conversion so I'm using it for AES/EBU <->Madi and then Madi into the PC via SSL MadiXtreme 128.

Once I got all the right settings dialed in on the FC726 and the SSL card, I'm getting 56 channels in and out at 96kHz.
The Nexus is great. Super High end AD/DA, and matrix/routing.

I haven't done a whole lot with it other than setup and testing, and I'm still waiting on a reply from Stagetec to change the configuration, but if that never goes through, at least I've got this functional

thecr4ne wrote: Fri Jan 03, 2025 12:35 pm Update on the Stagetec Nexus system.
So the first system, pictured previously, is 21rack spaces of ridiculousness, roughly 1.75 shitloads of line level AD and DA, and nearly as much AES/EBU I/Os.
Second system is another 6 rack spaces including 24 mic AD's, 8 line DA's and 16 AES/EBU on RJ45.

System 1 will do 44.1, 48, 88.2 and 96kHz. System 2 only does 44.1 and 48 kHz (currently).

To bridge the gap there and pipe multichannel in/out of my PC, I got a Euphonix FC726. It's a 56 channel digital format converter with sample rate conversion so I'm using it for AES/EBU <->Madi and then Madi into the PC via SSL MadiXtreme 128.

Once I got all the right settings dialed in on the FC726 and the SSL card, I'm getting 56 channels in and out at 96kHz.
The Nexus is great. Super High end AD/DA, and matrix/routing.

I haven't done a whole lot with it other than setup and testing, and I'm still waiting on a reply from Stagetec to change the configuration, but if that never goes through, at least I've got this functional

this is awesome

Kniferide wrote: Fri Jan 03, 2025 2:14 pm this is awesome

Nothing to add, just sharing some pics

thecr4ne wrote: Tue Jan 21, 2025 1:02 pm

Kniferide wrote: Fri Jan 03, 2025 2:14 pm this is awesome

Nothing to add, just sharing some pics

FYP

That rules so entirely hard, you got all of it to work?

Kniferide wrote: Tue Jan 21, 2025 1:10 pm FYP

That rules so entirely hard, you got all of it to work?

Kinda. The top unit is from a different system than the bottom 2, and doesn't talk directly to them, and there's some other discrepancies too, namely Sample Rates. For now, I'm just using them in parallel. I can control it separately from the lower two. and they're all going AES into the Euphonix unit on the left, which converts the sample rate to match.

The most annoying thing is actually the SSL MadiXtreme card in my PC. For some reason it just fucking disappears every now and then and I have to force uninstall the drivers and power off and on a few times before the OS recognizes that it's there. Not sure if it's the card or my pc hardware or an OS issue or the fact that the latest drivers are from fucking 2012, but it's annoying as shit. When it's there, it works great (mostly), but if the computer goes into sleep mode, it's gone when it wakes up. Fucking Infuriating. I can't afford RME or Marian so the struggle continues.

Still trying to get info from Stagetec on a new config, and some other stuff, finally heard back yesterday for the first time since Thanksgiving, so hopefully that's moving forward. Also found another reseller with some used Stagetec stuff which I'm hoping they're selling cheap. We'll see.

I always look forward to updates about that crazy ass thing!

Not that you asked, but this mighr help w/r/t your sleep issue:
I had to create a “daw mode” power plan by command line on my computer that turned off sleep, long battery life, etc, and it worked wonderfully. I have one button in my task bar when I record and another for when I’m doing homework.

Not sure if it will help your situation in particular, but any Microsoft devblog that mentions DAW/ music production has been extremely helpful to me. I was already suspicious of it, but trying to use Reddit for those problems only had me chasing my own tail.

llllllllllllllllllll wrote: Tue Jan 21, 2025 2:57 pm I always look forward to updates about that crazy ass thing!

Not that you asked, but this mighr help w/r/t your sleep issue:
I had to create a “daw mode” power plan by command line on my computer that turned off sleep, long battery life, etc, and it worked wonderfully. I have one button in my task bar when I record and another for when I’m doing homework.

Not sure if it will help your situation in particular, but any Microsoft devblog that mentions DAW/ music production has been extremely helpful to me. I was already suspicious of it, but trying to use Reddit for those problems only had me chasing my own tail.

Thanks, I'll see if I can find anything useful down that road...do you have any other links you think might be useful?

Yes, maybe not for your setup specifically, but for general PC setup for music recording, there’s a lot here:

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/windows- ... de-part-1/

It’s windows 10 or 11 centered, so not sure if it applies to you, but I wish I started here instead of the Latencymon rabbit hole - and definitely wish I had read it before buying my laptop.