Hmm ... 64 bit eh ...

I'm not even sure what to explicitly do (my side) in orer to let a 32 bit app run under the 64 bit OS. I'd say nothing. I do recall though, that something somewhere in Visual Studio (that's where development takes place) something is not ready for 64 bit yet.
I must dive into this.

I'll be back.

The TwinDAC+ doesn't have it. Maybe very expensive DACs do.
Just Google for DAC wordclock (no quotes surrounding). I didn't do it.
Maybe you get too much pro audio stuff. Then try
"audio dac" wordclock
(keep the quotes there).
And further to your imgination.

Hi Chris,

The PC has no physical clock for controlling audio data. It has a software clock though, which can not act as a master which can be synched to.
For your Fireface this implies that it will always act as master clock, which you can see in the screen behind the yellow icon (no matter whether you tell it to be master or not, it just is master and it shows that).
Only when you connect another audio device to the input concerned, it can be a slave (or set to master). If you don't have such other device to try, you can connect it to itself (a digital output to a digital input). The lights will show accordingly.

If there would be a wordclock input on the TacT, the Fireface could control the TacT's clock physically (say, via the backdoor), which then would give better results on jitter. The wordclock connection is a BNC (plug) connection; I don't know whether that's on the Fireface400 (on the 800 it is). The wordclock is a pro audio thing and not applied much in the consumer world (I think).

Peter

Oh man ...

Well, I just finished an email to the Internet company that delivered my SATAII (6 piece) hot swap disk tower. After months and a couple of 100 hours of trying, I came to the conclusion the thing flaws. I asked the company politely to refund my money ...
That's btw why I never started something myself in the "Music Storage" board, because I thought to have this theoretical nice solution to have working a long time ago. This is also why in a last attempt (day before yesterday) I started to have glitches, which by itself caused that my development PC has to be setup all over again, which ... COMPUTERS !!

Are we all sure this is the way to go ?

... but since this morning I have my 2x 1TB (1TB storage, 1TB backup) working in another way, expandable to 2 x 2TB without troubles (and to 2 x 3TB with some relatively more money, but still without troubles).

... like è, ë, ¢  etc., please keep in mind that those tracks currently won't make sound with Engine#3. You might have missed this in the release notes concerned ...

Obviously, depending on where you live, you may have these tracknames all over the place, and you will think *all* doesn't work.
I will try to have this solved in the upcoming weekend.

Chris, I think I recall when this happened to me ... Checking it out might be a bit awkward for you;

Most probably you have several disks (like the interal HDD and possibly USB disks, or something you can reach over the LAN).
Now, assuming you do have a few of these possibilities, could you please check whether from each of those it doesn't work.

More or less related, could you also check this :

You logon to your Vista system with a Username;
This Username is shown in Explorer, right underneath "Desktop";
Somewhere underneath your Username, the files you just tried to drag onto XX might exist. But, I don't know how reliable the Search function from Explorer is in there (because Vista is tricking things here). Anyway, you should look for *.WAV files obviously.

If you don't find anything, open a Dos box (start button - run - cmd), which will bring you to the folder (directory) with your Username (c:\Users\[your Username]). In there, type dir *.wav /s

If your files show up there, that's the problem. When this is so indeed, we'll proceed from there.

Startbutton - Control Panel - User Accounts and then something like add password.

When it doesn't help and you don't like the necessity of entering the password (which will be needed then after each boot), you can delete it from here as well.

Uhohh ...

There was a stage I had this myself, and I don't know anymore what I did to solve that.
Could you try this please (change is low that it helps) :

Rightclick on the XX icon, and Run as Administrator. Then try again.

The Library Tab is for future "selection" purposes. As a matter of fact. About all those tabs are useless currently, but it defines the base structure.
Things will grow in there.

Don't forget that dragging from e.g. Explorer is more convenient IMO.

Peter

Additionally, of utmost importance is the means of expandability it you're facing  "disk full" afterall. When you're not careful, it may imply a new set of disks besides the ones you currently have, copying over a slow connection which takes days (!), ending up with a bunch of old disks for spare (hence, useless).

Note that if the expandability is arranged for properly, right at this moment you could get something which *will* reach limits within a reasonable time, but from all follows that it won't harm you. Obviously, together with this comes that disks are getting larger and cheaper, where "larger" is the most important (because of the limit to diskNUMBERS in their chosen cabinets and all).

No real suggestions as off yet from my side (I'm struggling a bit with it  myself), but that the means of storage should provide kind of inifinit storage. My opionion in your case : it is not. If yo start off with 500GB and the max is 750 it's not a real growth path IMHO. Also think of getting CDs from libaries, and it just being legal to copy those for listening (well, here in Holland it is).

Be careful not to use RAID as an implicit backup means; you can accidently delete something, and it will be deleted instantly from your RAID mirrored (etc.) "backups". IOW, you should make the backup explicitly, and based upon changes opposed to the previous backup (Acronis is good software for that).

The means of setting it up physically is partly dependent on your playback PC (a laptop incurs for different solutions than a tower like PC), whether you have a USB DAC (then the disk storage should not be USB connected) (Firewire likewise I think and that opposed to a possible slow network-connected storage box, and the ultimately fast DATAII connected box.

These things are very difficult it you really want to do it right, and the best (SATAII) is the most difficult to connect (if not impossible for a laptop).

All is related to eachother, when you'd see that you really don't need a laptop for playback, as long as you have a laptop that RDC/RDP connects to the whatever PC it is playing the music (the laptop being miles away from your equipment (where the playback PC is near), that laptop being your "control center" only, and the distance not being able to influence playback quality).

Chris, you won't believe this, and I hope it is to your advantage somehow;

The last few days I was working on my "storage system", which is about RAID stuff and SATA. This is mainly about changing things in the BIOS, and from there on trying things get to work (which in my case hopelessly fails so far, but never mind that).

Yesterday, after 3 night of hobbying with this, I found that my Vista PC (where all this was occurring), suddenly had glitches ...

For several hours I was working on the solution to that (it worked for ages before, *and* I never experienced it anyway on either PC), until as some last resort I removed a driver which I shouldn't have ...
Many hours later of trying to get my system to rebooting again, I had to temporarily solve it by mounting another disk with the Vista OS on it (from another PC), and right away the glitches were gone again.


At having the glitches this was always in parallel with the disk lamp coming up, and in fact I couldn't touch anything on the PC or I had one (including an additional error in the Fireface data).
The things I had been doing the pas few days (without playing music from that machine) was related to installing motherboard Raid and disk drivers I hadn't installed before (so before it used generic/general drivers) in various versions including those who didn't work at all (like XP drivers which were just accepted, but did not do their job). Besides that I have been changing the BIOS all over the place, but which was all set back (and even reset to a before default) in the end. All to no avail.

I hope this helps you somewhere.
Peter

In either case you could just disable all the other devices (speaker icon in the tackbar tray) until the one you want is left. The only one there is always the Primary Device.

About your SPDIF input ... I can't tell in advance what happens. Assuming your onboard soundcard has digital out, you could use that (and then try again wheter you can change the volume -> Yes is NOT good).
But in your case, I think, I would prefer the USB connection. And then it shouldn't be a problem.

You don't need to do anything. Just use Engine#3 and define the USB Audio Device as Primary Device (so it lists as the first available device).

If it is not clear, please say so !