[Qlab] [QLab] Audacity Beta

[John Leonard]

John Leonard
On the road with web-mail.

On Wed Jul 25 11:44 , Maik Waschfeld <Maik.Waschfeld at Maik-Waschfeld.de> sent:

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>Am 23.06.2007 um 14:32 schrieb John Leonard:
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>> You can create up to 32 channel interleaved files and
>> route tracks to multiple channels, just by clicking.
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>How do you do that?

Like this:

Make sure you have the latest Beta first, then go to preferences and select File Formats. Under "When Exporting Tracks" 
select "Use Advanced Mixing Options". Under "Uncompressed Export Formats", choose "Other", then from the pop-up menu 
choose WAVEX (Microsoft), then your choice of encoding. QLab seems fine with 24 bit signed. Once you've done this, click 
OK and return to your file. Select export, or export selection, depending on what you want to do, and choose WAVEX from 
the menu. A window will open showing your selected tracks for export and a destination box. At the bottom of the screen is 
a slider; moving to to the right will increase the number of interleaved output channels that will be created and you simply 
click source and destination boxes until you've got the setup you want. You can link a single track to multiple output 
channels if you so wish. Once you've done this, Audacity will export an interleaved multi-channel file that will appear to be a 
simple .wav file. Drag this into QLab in the usual way and when you open up the info panel, you'll see that instead of the 
one or two level controls, you've got four, or six, or eight channels to play with. When you play the file, you'll have 
synchronous multi-channel playback. 

Hope this helps.

This should really go in the Wiki under tips and tricks, I guess. I'll expand it and post it when I get a moment. I'm stuck in 
the National Theatre using SFX at the moment  and really appreciating QLab more and more each day. I'll try and convince 
them to buy a license.

Regards,

John