DTS-CD Sound cards?

[jimfisheye]

Reaper has been just happiness and light since upgrading from Protools HD for me. (Circa 2008 for that.) Everything from recording/mixing/mastering to live sound.

Those Behringer/Midas interfaces are class compliant (no driver install).

 

[kvsawilson]

Out of interest...

What are you intending to record? What has this got to do with DTS-CD's?

I was really just curious if there is any way of making the dts-cd's from old quad recordings any more. I don't imagine myself doing it, but was wondering if it's still possible at this point. I collected a lot of those quad to dts cd's back in the day but there are very few I ever play any more since so much of it has been released in far better quality. Just thinking about whether people could still do it with today's technology.

K

 

[SeeMoreDigital]

I was really just curious if there is any way of making the dts-cd's from old quad recordings any more. I don't imagine myself doing it, but was wondering if it's still possible at this point.

Yep, it's still possible. But given multi-channel playback technology has moved on quite a lot since 1997 (ie: DTS-CD's launch), after capturing your multi-channel 'lossless' PCM audio streams, it's now possible to author them onto Blu-ray discs. My personal preference would be to create 'audio only' HFPA Blu-ray Audio style discs...

 

[Sonik Wiz]

Yep, it's still possible. But given multi-channel playback technology has moved on quite a lot since 1997 (ie: DTS-CD's launch), after capturing your multi-channel 'lossless' PCM audio streams, it's now possible to author them onto Blu-ray discs. My personal preference would be to create 'audio only' HFPA Blu-ray Audio style discs...

Certainly agree with what you said above. I also recognize that most discussion on QQ centers around audio only which Blu-ray audio or MCH FLAC files are just fine. But if you are talking audio + video, DTS is still a good choice.

I have about 2 dozen upmix projects from Laserdisc, & DVD, This is a different cow than just DVD-A with a bit of video. All my sources, even LD, start out as digital un-compressed. After demuxing and stereo to surround up mixing on my PC I use DTS at the full bit rate of 1536kbit/s which is very neutral & transparent to my ears. In DVDLab Pro I put the DTS audio in the main soundtrack, the original stereo in a secondary soundtrack, & output DVD compliant MPEG 2. FLAC does not merge or multiplex well in anything I've tried for video but DTS is very video friendly. I know someone is going to say Make MKV or something will do the trick but I enjoy also making full featured menus & something that meets real standards that can be played on every day equipment.

I haven't done a project like this in several years as I accomplished most all of the titles I wanted. To do another one I would probably use DTS again. But like others my DTS Master Encoding Suite is kaput so I would be back to using good 'ol Surcode.