Jeff.

i'm not sure what your saying mate …are you afraid of inadvertent duplicate tracks resulting from an incoming input from say a 32x32 interface or usb mixer ? eg if usb mixer mic input 9 is for harp, i would not expect the harp to end up on two rb tracks by using the TAG feature. further i wouldnt expect the harp necessarily to end up on rb track 9.
cos 9 might already have been recorded on. for example in the past in a big studio just because harp was on big console input 9 it wouldnt necessarily end up on track 9 of a 2 inch studer mtr if the studers track 9 already were filled.

Well actually prior to recording normally track layouts are agreed in advance ...so these kind of probs dont occur.
i would suggest that a daw like rb would mirror things.
ie its not rb's fault if the harp is directed to more than 1 input on a 32x32 usb mixer unless the user wishes to do so.
i would suggest in the track range routing boxes in tag that maybe rb might warn the user if a track in the user entered range had already been recorded on.

If I wanted a dupe of a track I would do that using rb duplicate feature post recording. Did I answer the question ? Do I make sense ?

I'm also mulling around having worked once for a telecommunications company…that in the future as telecoms tech gets cheaper for smaller studios ..very cheap ultra fast telecomms features/pipes might obsolete current ways of getting audio data into a daw.
though of course usb 4 is very fast in data transfer. even usb 2 is sufficient for lots of sound interfaces. it really depends on data transfer volumes.

well jeff ive been looking more and more how other daws deal with recording large track ranges/track counts cos of the prob of say arming 64 or 128 daw tracks. It seems many are just doing things the old ways of arming tracks. but maybe i'm missing something.

happiness.

om.

Last edited by justanoldmuso; 11/12/23 03:49 PM.
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