Recording Handbook - Hol.gr

nicely with SAW. I also hear that SAW has been optimized for a
semi-obscure professional sound card called CardD+ ($1100 Canadian).
3. As far as memory goes, I heard that 8 megs of RAM is sufficient.
Please let me know [people's experiences getting the right hardware
for SAW]. I am seriously considering buying SAW and I would like to
know what I'm getting myself into. It retails here for $700
(Canadian), and I'm on a student budget. If I need to sink another
$1000 into hardware, it's game over for my digital recording dreams.
Q1.7.3 What is a MIDI sync device?
A "sync" (synchronization) device does two things:
- When you play a sequenced MIDI set of backing tracks to the sync
device, it will generate an audio signal that specifies the timing of
the MIDI. This signal (which is not at all musical, it sounds like
white noise or a modem) can be recorded.
- When the recording is played back to the sync device, it will
generate timing MIDI data to drive the sequencer.
In short, it allows you to synchronise a MIDI track (or many) being
played by a software or hardware MIDI sequencer to a 4-track recorder.
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