Topic: Sound Devices MixPre-3 and 6, Part 7

[GLouie]

It appears that Audacity assumes the first 2 tracks of a polywav are stereo. I wonder if there is a setting to not do that?

Reaper imports polywavs as one multitrack file, then you can use the menu, ITEM/ITEM PROCESSING/EXPLODE MULTICHANNEL... to separate all tracks into individual Reaper tracks. N.B.  Reaper recopies the data for each track and makes a reapeak display file for each new track, but puts all this into weird places, typically the (Mac) user's documents folder. I haven't figured out how to get it to put these duplicates in the same place as the original, and of course, it won't open again without them.

[SMsound]

It appears that Audacity assumes the first 2 tracks of a polywav are stereo. I wonder if there is a setting to not do that?

Doesn't do this for me -- each MixPre polywav track is treated as a mono track. However, the fix is quick -- click on the down arrow to the right of the track name and then "split stereo track".

[CorFit Chris]

As it stands, I can now load and split polywaves in reaper, but loading them one by one, splitting them, rendering each pair, then combining the files into a single file per set/show, then reloading into reaper to normalize, etc, is just so many steps,

especially when trying to beat Chris King on getting my upload up etree..... 

You don't have to split them all up and render individually.  If you have 4 mics, just import the polywave > duplicate it 3 times > rt click on each track and select the channel you want (ex. ch 3) > repeat for other channels > pan accordingly.  Now you have all your channels in 1 screen.  You can do all your processing individually and for master output.  Setup your tracks as Regions, edit the Regions (track number/name).  Select the channels you want to render together and mute the others.  Then Render the Regions.  Repeat as needed.

[GLouie]

Interesting FYI, according to the SD Facebook users page [https://www.facebook.com/groups/sounddevices/], SD now has stock of MixPreIIs, and they have changed display screens to an OLED with rounded corners, instead of LCD. They had to change some internal parts, so such units get firmware 8.01 which is not applicable to older units.

[justme]

Thanks GLouie

That rounded screen did not look that great actually.
Wonder if the firmware change is related to oled touch drivers or any changes to the AKM ADC’s.

Unfortunately I can’t participate or read the discussions in the group since I don’t have any FB account.

[morst]

Unfortunately I can’t participate or read the discussions in the group since I don’t have any FB account.

I can read the discussion without logging in.

[jbell]

So is the change for better or worse?

[justme]

Unfortunately I can’t participate or read the discussions in the group since I don’t have any FB account.

I can read the discussion without logging in.

On iOS, no browser seems to work for me.
On macOS I found that Brave allowed me to read the discussions.

Thanks!

[morst]

On iOS, no browser seems to work for me.
On macOS I found that Brave allowed me to read the discussions.

Safari works for me under mac os Ventura

[GLouie]

I’m not on Facebook but had no problem reading the thread on MacOS Catalina with Firefox.

I guess time will tell if there is a downside to the changes, such as a programming error. You’ll certainly be able to spot the new ones though.