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

[bobusn]

Ha, Chrome II lists for about 30 c-notes, correct?

I understand they hope to "ship" by NAB...which is in a couple days.

Perhaps they still have some bugs to work out?

[moellenium]

Like most of you I'm getting pretty impatient concerning this version of Diskwelder, so I e-mailed Minnetonka yesterday and this is the response I got:

Hello Joe,

How do you like your TASCAM DV-RA1000? 

I apologize for the delay.  Sometimes software takes longer that you think
or want.  You never know until you know, you know?

Anyway - we are very very very close to release. 

The PC version is locked down and the Mac version is Beta 2.

Are you a PC or Mac guy?

Steve Clarke
Minnetonka Audio Software.



So it sounds like it will be sooner than later, but I'm not getting my hopes up.

[bobusn]

It's up:

http://www.tascam.com/Products/dvra1000_dwb1k.html

http://www.tascam.com/Products/dw_download.php

My new Dell Core Duo laptop takes about 20 hours (!) to decimate to 24/96 PCM & burn a DVD-A. Much faster if you are going to 48kHz fs, though. Sounds great. Even the CDs are remarkably good--much better than what I was getting going through analog into my Masterlink with its onboard converters.

Some items of interest:

You'll need your serial number from the back of the TASCAM to register your software. I printed mine with a label maker & placed it on the top of the unit for quick reference.

I have not been able to burn a gapless CD.

There is an audible tick within the first 5 ms of every track (which I don't notice in DSD playback through the DVRA-1000). I've started using the MARK command between movements of classical stuff  instead of splitting tracks while recording.

I haven't been able to burn a DVD-A without ticks at the track transitions. Of course, my track transitions are not exactly at zero-crossings in both channels, so for now I'm attributing it to that and not the software.

The software converts each stereo DSD track into a Left WAV (0) and a Right WAV (1) and stores these WAVs in a cache folder on the hard drive. During editing I bounce these to a new stereo track panned hard left and right.

The software will accept only stereo DSD or PCM files. I haven't been able to pull in the decimated left & right files later--only the stereo DSD original, or a stereo WAV bounced from the original left & right PCM files in Audition.

Even "overs" are showing up about 5dB or so down from 0 when converted to PCM. I haven't done a scientific level check here...I'll leave that up to you.

 

Interested in hearing others' experiences.

[steve clarke]

Cool - I would love to see them

[macdaddy]

so you burn a dsd data dvd-r on the fly in the tascam...

then you have to copy those files to your harddrive...

then you have to process/reburn these files onto another dvd-r, this time making a 24/96 dvd-a..?

and there still is no way to use those dsd files to  burn an sacd..?

so the only way to listen to the sraight dsd is through the machine..?

[bobusn]

New link...

http://www.tascam.com/Products/dw_download.php

Moke, drop me a note if you want to discuss further. I've been working with this for awhile now.