Topic: DV-RA1000 Users--Special Edition of DiscWelder Available...

[bobusn]

...and it's apparently FREE to registered DV-RA1000 users. Anyone get it yet?

Saw it here:

http://aes.harmony-central.com/119AES/Content/Tascam/PR/DV-RA1000-DiskWelder.html

TASCAM, in conjunction with Minnetonka Audio Software, is introducing an exclusive version of the DiscWelder software to create a complete mixdown and mastering solution for home and professional studios. DiskWelder Bronze 1000, available for free to all registered DV-RA1000 owners, adds three useful audio mastering features for use with high-resolution recordings. First, the software allows conversion from Direct Stream Digital (DSD) audio to a PCM WAVE file that can be imported into any DAW software. Second, the software allows users to burn a DVD-Audio disc with up to 192kHz/24-bit stereo mixes. DiscWelder additionally includes a Disc Mirroring feature that allows the disc to be played in any DVD player --not just those set up for DVD-A playback.

Best regards,

Bob

[bobusn]

+T, Moke, for the TASCAM link. I was just about to send TASCAM Customer Service a note asking how to get it.

I'll be interested to see how (well) it works for the DSD conversion to PCM.

Glad to be here!

[VA_TAPER]

this is really great news and opens up many possibilities, now with direct DSD->PCM decimation, we can create/archive multichannel DSD mixed though workclock sync and then convert them to 24/96 5.1 mixes, totally sweet!!

peace, chris

p.s. - now I have to order a few more recorders =)

[bobusn]

Moke,

Yes, I jumped in & got mine the Tuesday after Labor Day--after reading all the posts here! Sweet piece of gear.

Chris,

Yeah, I'm wanting another one, too! Not in the budget, however. Hey, your AKG for the front & my kunstkopf for the surrounds...might be worth a try.

All,

I guess I'm really not senior enough here to have given Moke a +T...sorry. But I think he deserved it!

[MattH]

+T, Moke, for the TASCAM link. I was just about to send TASCAM Customer Service a note asking how to get it.

I'll be interested to see how (well) it works for the DSD conversion to PCM.

Glad to be here!

This is fantastic news! Exactly what I have been hoping for without paying big bucks for the program. It won't author SACD but this is the next best thing. This should perform DSD decimation as good as any PCM recorder on the market.

[Genghis Cougar Mellen Khan]

Thanks!

VA taper, if you're ever in the Cleveland area, I have a mobile unit ready to go for a multi channel... 

what to use for the master clock? V-3?

[VA_TAPER]

Thanks!

VA taper, if you're ever in the Cleveland area, I have a mobile unit ready to go for a multi channel... 

what to use for the master clock? V-3?

Just use one of the RA100s as the master, thats whats great about it having wordlock in and out!!!

unless someone has a BigBen sitting around!!

[wbrisette]

This is fantastic news! Exactly what I have been hoping for without paying big bucks for the program. It won't author SACD but this is the next best thing.

My understanding of the SACD format is that specialized equipment is needed to create the master disc, which is why I think it is having a problem taking off. It sounds great (seems mostly available for classicial recordings only), but so do DVD-A discs and we can do those at home.

Wayne

[Genghis Cougar Mellen Khan]

Has anyone else been able to find out about this "special addition"?  I'd called Tascam and Minnetonka and enither had any useful information.

 Offer good in the United States only. Watch this space for information on how you can get your own copy of the software. 

[macdaddy]

now i really want one of these...

any chance of the burning program doing a dsd > sacd burn..?  i am fine with only the two channel option...

[Genghis Cougar Mellen Khan]

now i really want one of these...

any chance of the burning program doing a dsd > sacd burn..?  i am fine with only the two channel option...

Right now I think it's a long shot, who knows.

[macdaddy]

that's too bad, because that would make this thing a cinch!

[Genghis Cougar Mellen Khan]

that's too bad, because that would make this thing a cinch!

Isn't SACD pretty much a dead format?  Unless you have a SACD player that doesn't play DVD-A, I have no hangups with DVD-A. 

I've read a bunch on both, in what I've read I couldn't pick up on what the advantages of SACD would be.  I might have became lost in all the technical mumbo-jumbo, is there any advantage SACD has over DVD-A?

[macdaddy]

that's too bad, because that would make this thing a cinch!

, is there any advantage SACD has over DVD-A?

yes, i think so.

and the dsd > sacd is really the way to go, and is the way i would like to go, ultimately.

sacd is not a dead format. i see it as being a niche market for audiophiles, which is fine, but we have to be able to make our own discs...

another t in 12 for setting me up in this conversation

[macdaddy]

sacd is native to dsd at 2.82mhz/1bit. DVD-A is native to pcm.
This software is taking is resampling from dsd 2.82mhz/1bit to pcm format.

exactly.