Merging Technologies

Hi, everyone! Well, I'm about to get a Toshiba 5105 laptop like Silas has; I already have the four-slot Magma chassis. But before I finally buy that system, I need to get my present Merging desktop one working properly again. Two days ago it stopped recording "the way it used to." Here's my anecdota...

Thanks, Brent and Silas. Glad to hear that it can be done, and that someone is thinking logically. Will this Sony product be introduced at the LA AES? Website links yet? Curious--but many of us take our converters more than seriously, and wouldn't think of getting another set just to get the MADI ou...

Graemme wrote:

<< Oops, I think that second reference to the level controller was a typo... >>

As was mine to the "711" vacuum tubes. Obviously I meant 811s!

All best,

"Dr. Fred"

Greetings! Doug from Houston wondered about how to deal with all the Mykerinos DB25 i/o connectors in a Magma extension chasis. With all due repect to Nancy at Magma, and Claude at Merging, this should not be a Magma issue. Indeed! This is the stupidest "feature" of the Mykerinos cards, which have o...

Hi! Roland wrote: <<I personally find a lot of the DSD vs PCM argument really quite academic. In my experience the things that have made the largest differences subjectively are the actual analogue side of AD/DA conversion. Dr Fred, as you will know also the differences that can be made by temperatu...

Hi! Graemme wrote: <<Ahhh..So, are you saying that you want level and maybe panning controls to avoid having to use an outboard mixer? If so, then yes, you are right, the level controls in the DSD recording mixer are non-functional. I don't like the idea of subjecting my monitors to the direct outpu...

Hi, Graemme! I think I coined a term which is confusing. What I meant was, "monitoring like I can do in PCM mode, i.e., through the mixer." Even as august an authority as Alan told me last month that I'd have to use an analog mixer. So, sure, a stereo DSD output turned into analog is nice, but not v...

Hi, again! The coolest thing about that expensive rack cabinet is that, inside, the gear actually runs *cooler* than it does sitting out on a tabletop! There's a digital thermometer, mounted inside the front door, top left, and for the past month it has tracked the ambient temperature of my room wit...

Hi, Roland and Benoit! Thanks for all the advice--which seems to be anti-laptop. There are two more issues complicating my decision. First, I've just written an article about a U.S.-made product--a piece of furniture called "AcoustiLock" made by Noren Products in California, which is basically a hug...

Hi! I agree with your assessment of Pyramix's place in the DAW world. It's got to be pretty special to get me to switch away from Dyaxis! I feel it's sort of where Dyaxis would have been had Studer not pulled the plug on further development of it after 1993 (and wouldn't even fund the development of...

Hi! Well, it's like this. For use with the Genex A8 and D8 converters--which I have--the DSD communication must be via SDIF. And for eight channels, yes, you need two Mykerinos cards. But would you want a Pyramix system set up with only SDIF i/o? What about AES/EBU? What about the possibility of S/M...

Hi, Roland! I guess I wasn't clear. The CDs were audio CDs made for the artist (the leader of a "period brass band") to have for listening and eventual take selection. They were not a file backup. Pyramix cannot sample rate convert from 176.4 to anything at the present time, although I'm told this i...

Hear, hear! Not only what you request, but please consider that at my multi-track 176.4 kHz session for Dorian back in June, I had to make 4 CDs of the four 13MB soundfiles which resulted from the four 2.5 hour sessions. Guess what I had to do? Right, play each long session back into analog. I then ...

Hi! Rather than purchase a Merging turnkey server-size PC, I seem to be moving towards getting the laptop/expansion chassis solution. But not the simple "one-slot" Magma chassis--one of their larger ones. Has anyone tried multi-channel (two Mykerinos boards/8 channels) of DSD recording using a four-...