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Source Elements | SOURCE CONNECT 3.1 been repaired – spooky!). This is W O R K F LO W F O R R E M O T E T R A N S P O R T S Y N C S E S S I O N S truly impressive stuff. It works by • Create a Pro Tools session (starting at ::: – although the peer-to-peer connection and your actual number is not important, this seems to be a common standard recorded audio file is scanned amongst users). upon completion of recording. • Create your source audio tracks (with original dialogue and fills, etc) to taste Any detected missing packets and route them to the main audio output. are requested from your remote • Import your video. Check that video resolutions that your remote connection connection (who stored them in can play and are prepared to download – and if necessary save the session as the background), and your file is a new session within the same session folder, but with the required alternate restored to its full glory. Not content to sit on its video resolution. laurels, the Source Elements team • Digideliver or FTP your session folder with the correct video resolution and also developed ‘Auto-Replace’ associated session files to the remote studio. which is perfect for connecting • Before connecting to the remote studio, open the same session and create to countries with a lower (assuming you are working in mono) three mono aux inputs and a new bandwidth. In this instance (or audio track. if you so desire anyway) you can • Name two audio buses (which I label ‘To Source-Connect’ and ‘From Sourceuse Source-Connect to monitor Connect’ in the i/o set up page. the performance and record it. • Name the first aux channel ‘SC Plug’” and substantiate a Source-Connect plug The beauty is that Auto-Replace in from RTAS plug in ‘Other’ menu. Set the ‘To Source-Connect’ bus as the aux will request the original PCM audio data from the remote channel input, and ‘From Source-Connect’ bus as the aux channel output. end and will replace ALL the • Name the second aux channel as ‘TB mic’ and route your talkback mic AAC audio in your timeline that as the aux channel input, and the ‘To Source-Connect’ bus as the aux you have recorded with the channel output. original PCM audio data from • Name the third aux channel as ‘Rewire’ and substantiate a source the remote end (before it was AAC elements plug in from RTAS plug in ‘instrument’ menu. Give the aux channel encoded by their Source-Connect a dummy input and a dummy output (mine are called ‘whatever’) which is a plug in). Unlike Auto-Restore, it rewire requirement. is recommended to commence • The audio track should be named ‘Record’ and the track input should be the this process once the session ‘From Source-Connect’ bus, and the track output should be to your monitoring. has ended, as the PCM audio data is uncompressed and The track should be placed in punch in record and enabled (to input monitor consequently large. in stop – with Pro Tools HD). That wasn’t hard was it? Newly in version . , you can choose to have Auto-Replace and Cubase campers. There is also a stand-alone happen peer-to-peer (p p), or more slowly but version, Source Elements Desktop: something more robustly via ftp. Woah! Just take a minute to for everyone. take stock of what is happening here. After your The company has developed some related session is ended, you no longer require your remote products to help you with your new online end to tidy up, delete the unused tracks, phone presence. Source-Live is a plug-in for Pro Tools you up and hassle you as to what your ftp login and VST that can send your mix directly to your details are on your server, zip the session, and then clients. Give them your Source-Live link, and they upload the session. You no longer then have to can listen to your stream in a Quick Time stream download the session, and then manually replace in real-time. Ideal for reviewing music and for all the AAC audio with the full bandwidth PCM shortform productions. audio (tedious and not creative to say the least). You can now send your assistant off to make Big Desk Ideas coffee (nice!), whilst you and your equipment Source-Talkback is a ridiculously nifty little earn more money with another session. Now that plug-in for Pro Tools users of Sourceis music to my ears! Connect that gives big desk functionality for talkback without the big desk bit. It cuts your A New M anager talkback microphone feed to the remote end until So how does this all happen? Source-Connect you key it (either in latching or unlatching mode), has a new background application called the and when you do, it dims your monitoring and Q-Manager. This engine is a clever beast and will therefore prevents feedback and delays through automatically in the background take care of your the monitoring speakers. A must have in this age files. It records your audio input to the Sourceof virtual desks. ∫ Connect plug in as soon as you are connected to your remote session, just like a good old fashioned snoop tape. If you remember I said there are three get out of jail cards… so newly in version . , if I N F O R MAT I O N ‘Replace’ was checked during the session, and there were any issues with the final restore or £ Source-Connect Standard US$395.00/ replace process, the remote session can export GB£265.36 (exc.VAT), the entire session as a WAV or AIF file – just like Source-Connect Pro US$1,495.00/ sending you the snoop tape. Now that is belt, GB£1,004.34 (exc.VAT) braces, and wearing bullet proof audio pants if ever I knew it. A Source Elements LLC, 515 N. State St., 25th Source Elements has various flavours of the Floor, Chicago, Illinois 60610, USA software for different users, from a basic to A +1 312 706 555 a pro version. There are Audio Units versions W www.sourceelements.com for Digital Performer, Logic, Garage Band et al, E info@source-mail.com and a VST versions for Fairlight, Vegas, Nuendo, ) Session Review Mode is where you have the decision-making producer not physically present but remotely attached, and therefore you need to send him your audio (i.e., his session must offset to compensate for the time of arrival from leaving you to get to him). Again you activate ‘Send’ in the RTS panel, and the remote studio (with producer) selects ‘Receive’ – so you are in control of the transport. This time you use your Pro Tools space bar play cursor or console transport play, and the remote end offsets to compensate for the time of arrival difference. Voila – he hears your audio in perfect sync. How easy was that? So, without much fuzz and buzz (as is common in these festive times), let’s move onto Source Element’s latest audio alchemy. Rebekah Wilson (Source Elements Technical Director) and her team have been mighty busy creating the magic for Source Elements. If this doesn’t rock your audio world (if you can excuse my evangelising), then I will eat my proverbial party hat. Source-Connect . has introduced ‘autorestore’ and ‘auto-replace’ via the Q-manager. These features are so revolutionary that I am adamant the team deserves an award for technical achievement (douze point, s’il vous plait). Let’s backtrack to what Source-Connect (or ISDN for that matter) is actually doing, and you will see why. The audio signal is split into packets and sent over the Internet or network. These packets are sent sequentially to your connected partner. In an imperfect world, a network error might occur and a packet might not arrive in time, causing an audio tick or glitch in the received audio signal. Source-Connect has built-in error correction modes to resolve these dropped packet issues in real time. However, under certain circumstances, a packet may not be retrieved in time to prevent data loss before the signal is recorded. Before now, the only way to guarantee no data loss was to duplex record (record at both ends). Musical M agic Now there are not just two get out of jail free cards, but three! Source Elements has cunningly implemented ‘Auto-Restore’, which resolves this problem by seamlessly working in the background (in non real time) and restoring the missing packets. Awesome! When I last tried it, my remote session (who sadly was not blessed in New Zealand with such robust bandwidth as me) watched a YouTube video at the same time as sending tone, to reduce the bandwidth of their connection and simulate a worse connection. This worked, and a few holes were both audible and visible in the waveform of my recording. By the time I had hit ‘stop’, and gone back in my timeline to replay the glitches with missing audio, there were none already! All I had to do was recalculate the waveform overviews (which were now wrongly showing audio holes whilst the audio had E scape The Jailer AUDIO MEDIA JANUARY 2009 http://www.sourceelements.com

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