ProTools Digi 001

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VOXVENDOR said:


Pro Tools Free is complete Junk, I agree... But Pro Tools LE is great... I totally disagree with your statement on that.

I guess DAWS are like Beer, everyone gets used to their brand...

"Id Run Digi 001 with Logic Platinum".....

How the hell do you do that?... and if possible, WHY?

I mean thats, funny.....
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logic platinum is over all better than ptLE, and at the end of the month when logic 5 comes out, its gonna me much better than ptLE also. and by all means i'm not a logic fan, it takes to long to learn it.
as for the digi 001 and logic, yes it possible, i'm not sure if it possible on pc, but i have a partner of mine that runs the digi001 with logic on his mac G4 and it flawless.

VOXVENDOR said:


And Whats up with this???

The whole IDEA of PTLE and DIGI 001 is to have a pro environment scaled back to be available at a better price..... This comment is silly...

To suggest a person should skip the PTLE and just get a full blown system, is ludicrious..... Remember this website is called "Home Recording"

24 tracks is plenty... by the time your done bussing stuff together and all that, you can get way more, it's just about how you do it...
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i said if you run protools don't half ass it...the digi 001 is great i'm not taking anything away from it. but if your gonna run pro tools be for real. i wasn't saying for him to go buy a full TDM, not every one has money like that. its just what i'd do.
he can buy a delta 1010 and get the same quality, or with a motu card...etc

24tracks isn't always enough for all of us

BY ALL MEANS GET THE DIGI 001 you'll love it. like i said the quality of the thing is great..
 
damn i was looking at the Pro tools HD, not anymore...$starting at $10g's and $325 a month...to much for me i'll stick with nuendo and my delta 1010.
 
A friend of mine works for Digi and he recomends their newer card but I cant remember the name. He said it had much better pre-amps (focusrite) then the 001.

Right now it only available for Mac but PC is coming soon.
 
TexRoadkill,

I think that is the M-Box you are talking about. USB, 2 analog inputs with pre's.
Later,
C
 
I have both a Pro Tools TDM MixPlus system (Mac) and a Pro Tools LE Digi001 system (PC). I use the PC system for about 90% of what I do, simply because there are a lot of programs for music creation on the PC that are unavailable on the Mac, or work better on the PC. Pro Tools TDM is awesome, but I have done stellar mixes on Pro Tools LE as well.

The system specs you qouted will work great, and you will be able to record plenty of tracks with that system.
 
Thanks everyone - I will follow the specs closely.

Looking forward to getting my new Digi...problem is getting the money...guess I better get saving...
 
TexRoadkill said:
A friend of mine works for Digi and he recomends their newer card but I cant remember the name.

He said it had much better pre-amps (focusrite) then the 001.

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Yea, I've heard they're based on the Focusrite Platinum Series.

Be still my beating heart (heavy panting and excitement).

Then again, an audio buddy would be a step up from the 001 preamps (and probably on par with the focusrite platinums - maybe better).
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chessrock said:
To me, Pro Tools appears to be a big scam.

First, they scam you in to purchasing all this expensive interfaces, computers, peripherals, and mixing stations.

Then, they will periodically come out with newer and supposedly better versions and upgrades, all designed to keep you shelling out even more money in sort of a continuous rip-off stream.

There are interfaces that cost much less and sound much better (that can also do just as much). What you're paying for is the Pro Tools name. It's become an industry standard, and thus enjoys all of the spoils that go with that status.
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Obviously you dislike the 001 a great deal.We get it.

SO, what do YOU recommend?

Later,
C
 
Paris is a bargain, and I've heard it's been discontinued so you can probably get set up for dirt cheap. Very powerful, flexible and user-friendly.
 
PARIS ProPCI Card, 16 Channel Control Surface, Modular Expansion Chassis, Mac/PC Software $1,995 was $4995
 
Ditto on chargers reply. Although You could go with cheaper but they have cornered a certain market because they may have been the first but iffin you want to take your project to a studio for whatever reasons guess what they're running. Cheers Gag
 
This might be the dumbest question ever . . .

But I went to a Pro Tools seminar / sales pitch / religious cult recruitment effort . . .

and one of the guys there who works in the post-production industry told me that the way things are going, .wav files are quickly becoming "the standard."

Now I may be a complete idiot, but if people are taking wav files, does it matter what platform they were produced on? I mean if I hand a bunch of wav files to a mixing engineer, file#1 guitar, file #2 bass, etc. etc. , won't he still be able to mix this down, or am I missing the point entirely?
 
Pro Tools wavs are different from regular waves. Plus, somethings that are in a pro tools session can't be taken to a different program, like the automation, the plugins you've already used, etc.
 
Careful...they are .WAV on the PC version. YEs. ANd I believe you can set the mac up to do likewise.

chessrock, as you say, .WAV is .WAV. I take and move tracks back and forth between my laptop using Ntracks and my Protools system all the time and it works beautifully. So, MY answer to your question is: Yes, he would be able to mix them. Just sans the fades, automation and plug-in settings.

LAter,
C
 
Now I may be a complete idiot, but if people are taking wav files, does it matter what platform they were produced on? I mean if I hand a bunch of wav files to a mixing engineer, file#1 guitar, file #2 bass, etc. etc. , won't he still be able to mix this down, or am I missing the point entirely?
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Yes, you are missing the point entirely. You can hand a bunch of wav files to someone for him to mix them down, but how is he going to know how they are arranged? If you have a song that is 3 minutes long, and all the wav files are 3 minutes long, then it's simple, just arrange them all on tracks and then mix. But that is an extremely unlikely scenario. Far more likely, you will have short little wav files peppered all voer your session, like a vocal that starts a minute in, or a lead that goes for 15 seconds at the end... you know, a session looks like a big patchwork of stuff. So you may be using wav files just like everybody else, but without the session file from a DAW to re-create the session, you are totally lost. By the way, this is especially true in film, where there are tiny slices of audio spread out over multiople tracks in long sessions...

Pro Tools uses wav files, and can be set to generate AES Boradcast wave files. These files are compatible with nearly every application that can read wav. Wav is now the default standard for both Mac and PC versions, though AIFF files are also supported. The old SD2 format that was mac only is going away, because it is unable to suppoort higher sampling rates, and because it was never PC compatible.

I understand that you dislike Pro Tools, but I think you should get your facts straight before you diss it to hell and back.

And I would strongly recommend that nobody buy a discontinued DAW such as PARIS. If it was an old tube mic or effect or guitar, that's one thing, but a discontinued DAW? That is about the worst recommendation I've heard here.
 
Thanks for shedding some light on the subject.

Alright, I take back everything I said . . . Pro Tools Rocks!

Not.

It's still very expensive, the converters are no better than those on my Delta card, and their best preamps are no better than an audio buddy. And this is supposedly the industry standard?

I would say the industry is in trouble. Let's just make a Presario with Soundblaster card and Acid 3.0 the industry standard.

pppppttttt ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !

:)
 
chessrock said:
Thanks for shedding some light on the subject.

Alright, I take back everything I said . . . Pro Tools Rocks!

Not.

It's still very expensive, the converters are no better than those on my Delta card, and their best preamps are no better than an audio buddy. And this is supposedly the industry standard?

I would say the industry is in trouble. Let's just make a Presario with Soundblaster card and Acid 3.0 the industry standard.

pppppttttt ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !

:)
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The software is industry standard.. the 001 being disussed here is the home interface...

The Big Studio's that use pro tools have $5000 Pre's and a plethora of other gear.. other than the software..

The 001 being discussed here is not to be confused with the "big" system...Totally diferent.
 
chessrock,

I have to disagree on the expensive thing, too. $749.00 for whole shebang is pretty frehookin good, in my opinion. Start adding up alternatives and you get pretty damn close I would think.

And ProTools, the software, is industry standard. Sorry if the standard is not what you think is great, but it IS the standard. Yeah, Logic is gaining some ground along with maybe DP, but it seems in my reading and research that 8 or 9 out of 10 pros use this stuff. And not only on the big ticket TDM at work, but they bring mixes home to work on with their 001. I *think* that speaks pretty well for it.

Or maybe not. Maybe, as you claim, it has become the lowest common denominator software. The "Who wants to be a millionaire" of the DAW world. I guess that would explain PTFree. See, you maybe right...I may be, well you know the rest.

Have a good one,
C
 
Logic's a pain in the ass to learn, and not as user friendly as PT....

PT LE is exactly the same software was the big Pro Tools, just less tracks and no surround.. (So Im told)
 
I agree on the Logic thing...tried it, didn't like it.

LE is missing SMPTE, beat detective and of course some of the plugs that are available...but I really don't care about those things all that much.

VOXVENDOR, are you running yours on a PC? If so, what flavor, speed, blah, blah, blah??


Later,
C
 
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