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Post by adogg4629 on Jun 13, 2014 16:47:24 GMT -6
Good stuff. I'll have to wait for Reaper support though. Silvano has been asked about Reaper a lot so far, but I get the sense that he doesn't have anybody on his team who knows how to use it. He does seem to bee keen on going there though, but promises nothing.
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Post by adogg4629 on Jun 13, 2014 16:45:33 GMT -6
Slate Virtual Vaporware. It will change the way you do nothing forever!
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Post by adogg4629 on Jun 13, 2014 8:44:24 GMT -6
Wow! That looks great. Pro tools only though right? Released as of today, it is Pro Tools only for PC. Mac support coming really soon. I believe Cubase support for PC coming really soon as well, followed shortly by Cubase support for Mac. Not sure about any other DAW yet.
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Post by adogg4629 on Jun 12, 2014 18:18:23 GMT -6
re great at promises bad at delivery... SLATEed for delivery 8) cheers Wiz heh... well played sir. cheers
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Post by adogg4629 on Jun 12, 2014 18:16:00 GMT -6
To be honest, I don't read every single post - just what interests me. I certainly thought that this board was very welcoming - sorry if it hasn't appeared that way. At no point have I ever aimed this board at "people that do this for a living". So - I'll do my best to do a better job of trying to respond to more posts. I don't think anyone's saying that anything was done on an intentional level. It's a small (but growing) board still, and the more people you get on the better it will be. Come join us noobs and commiserate more often. AD
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Post by adogg4629 on Jun 12, 2014 16:57:36 GMT -6
adogg4629, stop using all due respect haha. I keep thinkin of Ricky Bobby and start busting up laughing! Stop it, stop it! In all due respect Warren...
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Post by adogg4629 on Jun 12, 2014 16:56:25 GMT -6
^Gem. I have only seen the first half of the video thus far, but it looks promising. At this point, I'm still not sure how much touch screen control I need beyond what the V-control Pro can give me. I can see it being more handy in tracking than mixing actually. Touching around to arm tracks and stuff would be nicer than mousing, but I think a physical control surface with a real fader would be better for old school automation and stuff. How much does the Dell go for? Do you think this would be useful during mixing? I imagine that you're running a ton of tracks for film stuff right? I asked Silvano for two features. One for a "lite" version that would basically be like a V-control. He said no to that "DTouch was born to run on the Pro Tools computer. It isn't an "external" application like V-Control Pro, but it is integrated in the PT GUI." I also asked him to work some UI magic to find a way to have a sort of mini mixer that can be used for automation while staying in the edit window. I haven't heard back from him on that. I agree with you on the physical control surface, and the D-touch does a cool sort of trick by working with physical control surfaces. I have a feeling that this is because they developed it to work with their GRANDE modular controller which they couldn't get to work with Avid (no SDK for Eucon available). This overlay may have been their ingenious work around that they are releasing as its own thing (especially since they don't have to be beholden to programming for HUI, Icon or Eucon). As far as working with a huge track count, the Jury's out. With music, it's easier to get in and "feel" the faders. But with over 160 tracks and multiple guys working on them, "feeling" starts becoming a bit relative. I myself only do an automation move when I can't get what I want any other way. Then, it's a matter of dealing with one or two elements at a time, so being able to bring up a fader now and again to do a quick and dirty move would be choice. On the other hand, I know guys who are wizzes with the faders and they'd love this. The Dells are around $5-600
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Post by adogg4629 on Jun 12, 2014 16:38:54 GMT -6
John, in all due respect, look at the amount of posts and threads that have gone ignored by so many. This isn't an unwarranted criticism. You've put up a great board, but so far about 90% of the conversation is done by about 15% of the members. The problem isn't that we don't post, it's that after a while we get turned off by the crickets that accompany any post or thread we make. If I was the only one who felt like that, then you could chalk that up to me being very boring and uninteresting...which I am in spades. But this is a common gripe amongst many of us out here whenever we talk about RG. I know we're all not "cool" but we make a living mixing and spend too much gear we don't really need but love to justify to our wives.
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Post by adogg4629 on Jun 12, 2014 16:22:40 GMT -6
Yeah, I think a standalone software will be more appealing in the future. This DTouch looks interesting, looks pricey though and no OSX support yet. Pricey? It's $271. Compared with $2300 for the Raven MTi. Yes, you have to supply your own Touchscreen, but I'm seeing some of the Acer's for $349 on ebay. I myself would rather get the Dell though. 8ms touch response as opposed to 25ms. One of the things I like about how this is rolling out is how Silvano actively implements user suggestions into the product and thus far has been really good about bug fixes. SS has a bad track record with both of those. He's great at promises, but bad on delivery.
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Post by adogg4629 on Jun 12, 2014 13:10:21 GMT -6
Wonder if in the future, slate will release just the software I tried to list this as a new topic, but it was ignored. It does fit in nicely with your musings about a software only Raven. Dtouch A software only Raven. So far it's PT and PC only, but they've announced Mac and Cubeace in the coming months. A pic of the mixer (It looks nearly identical to the PR mixer save for a few new buttons and the toolbar: Feature Wise it's nearly identical to the Raven. It runs on a 27 inch touch screen monitor you can purchase online for around 5-700 bucks. They tested it with the Acer T272HL and are testing it now with the DELL P2714T, but no info on that yet. The software is about 200 euros. If you go over to that "other" board, you can see SS and Silvano Bettinzana getting into a bitchfest about whose system is better (including Slate's video demonstrating both). My own opinion is that I'd rather spend around 700-1k then 2.3k. Plus, I like this interface better. The only thing that sucks here is that you're still in the banking-verse. here's a video AD
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Post by adogg4629 on Jun 12, 2014 12:40:35 GMT -6
In all due respect , it isn't just a case of people with under 20 posts not posting much, but its that we're typically ignored by those who have been on the board from the beginning. We sort of feel like we're the kids on the benches watching the popular kids converse in front of us, but we can't really get in on the conversation.
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Post by adogg4629 on Jun 11, 2014 16:47:34 GMT -6
D-touch Software controller for PT!!!I was looking at this and it seemed kind of neat. Pro- It's a pure software solution, so it's more open the the Raven. Con, it doesn't have the Raven Hardware. Pro- I like the interface better...and even with the 27 inch touch screen monitor, it's still a quarter of the price of the Raven MTI. Demo video
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Post by adogg4629 on May 16, 2014 11:32:24 GMT -6
Apparently Phish and Bob Ezrin decided to do most of the work on their new Album in Nashville. I grew up and started in upstate NY and NYC, and was lucky to get to work with great people and great artists. I learned from them about this mystical place where all music sounds better and you can find the best musicians and studios to cater to truly great art. They called it Nashville. I've only been there once for a few days (a stop on my way to Memphis, the ancient city built by the gods where the streets run blue with soul). It was a friend and booze filled weekend I remember fondly (if hazily). I regret my lack of time there though and I want to return. Now, a band I grew up loving for their songwriting, musicianship (not their 40 minutes jams though), and album production have made the move to recording in the South's mecca of great musical engineering. If the first pre-release track Waiting All Night is any indication, then it should be good. I can only surmise that it's one part a bunch of guys who live on farms in New England (including Bob Ezrin) who make intricate songs and albums, and one part the magic of Nashville seeping into their sessions. I know I'm taking mystical elements lacking in my life and adding them to a perfect version of a fantasy city with great music and great living. But one of the few memories I have of that city is wandering around Opryland with artificially heightened senses taking in the lights, music and atmosphere. How can I not think that all of Nashville has that same magic? Especially when I live and work in LA. Hollywood and the EI aside, we have dust and traffic. Lots of dust and traffic.
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Post by adogg4629 on May 16, 2014 10:32:22 GMT -6
What you have to do is kidnapp all the brosicians who are busy farting in the ears of country fans, take them into the hills and teach them how to fish, build a shelter and live off the land for a month or two. Let them have a guitar, but break their fingers if they play anything written after 1973. That'll lean'em right!
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Post by adogg4629 on May 16, 2014 10:25:30 GMT -6
$#1tballs, that was AL on Guitar?!? I haven't seen him in over ten years. He's gone country (no surprise here). I am officially in iTunes download purchase mode now as well as a tour watch. You made my morning Cowboycoalminer!!!!!
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Post by adogg4629 on May 12, 2014 17:40:59 GMT -6
If it's $149 as an intro, it will be $99 at some point. That's just how he seems to work. Yeah, but he'll only offer the $99 deal for a Spring Sale for one week only... until popular demand makes him extend it perpetually.
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Post by adogg4629 on Apr 18, 2014 18:28:36 GMT -6
Fab Filter suggests using Linear phase on your mastering bus because it causes extreme latency. It's a tricky mode to use as it is nearly impossible to automate in linear phase without making audible clicking sounds. As a normal track EQ, zero latency mode has more of the phase characteristics of the hardware EQs we are used to. Dave Gamble Equilibrium does this as well, and there were a bunch of white papers released about it a few years back-though I can't recall where I read them.
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Post by adogg4629 on Apr 14, 2014 11:42:28 GMT -6
call me crazy, but i went ahead and Hackadoodle updated my firmware to 5,1 via the link addogg put up, and i purchased 2- intel xeon x5650 6 core CPU's for $200! My Mac pro geekbenched at 16,700 or so, i'm expected to hit between 25- 27,000 with the 4 extra cores For 2 hundy, i HAD to do it!!! this is the 2009 nahalem Mac pro firmware, mac would not allow us to upgrade from 4,1(this firmware only lets you run 2-quad core cpu's and 1066 buss ram speed) The below pics are my Mac pro before and after this is the Current Mac pro firmware(5,1 lets you run 2-6 core cpu's and 1333 bus ram speed...wheeeeehaaaa!!!) You beat me to the punch Tony! LOL. Great job. Thanks for posting the specs. May as well start a new thread about updating Nehalem Macs to near current Mac Pro benchmarks. AD
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Post by adogg4629 on Apr 10, 2014 9:37:10 GMT -6
My experience has been that DAWs perform best when run as close as practical to whatever the developers were running for debugging. As applications go, they are extremely complex. I agree with Bob on this. While I'd love a PC for myself (and have them), what I use with other engineers and mixers are entirely Macs. Maybe it's because we all have this perception that Bob brought up (that seems 100% logical). Apple has a very narrow spec that you can more easily engineer for, and more and more coders and engineers work on macs now. I could be wrong-hope I am.
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Post by adogg4629 on Apr 10, 2014 9:26:51 GMT -6
i've got a nehalem mac pro 8 core, with 120 gig SSD boot drive and some 10,000 rpm secondaries, 12 gigs ram, it's insanely stable and a total beast, hits around 17k on geekbench, best part is it cost me about $1,900.00 very lightly used. Those really are the best buys if you can find somebody to d-lid a Xeon CPU for you. You could upgrade the 2009 to the complete Mac Pro 5.1 specs including ram and CPU. I'm beefing mine up to a 12 core myself. Of all the blogs and threads I've read on this matter, this one is the best: pindelski.org/Photography/mac-pro/AD
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Post by adogg4629 on Apr 9, 2014 10:42:37 GMT -6
Check out this link:
It is a great video walk through for tweaking and optimizing the bios as well as Windows 8.1 for audio production. It is some of the same stuff Neil does in his Pro Tools PC.
Best
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Post by adogg4629 on Mar 25, 2014 1:02:18 GMT -6
For ease of use I just pulled the trigger on the SSL. Because reverb, I went with the Lexicon 224. Because I really just liked it a lot, I went with the Shadow Hills (third one surprised me).
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Post by adogg4629 on Mar 24, 2014 16:32:23 GMT -6
have we stopped reading musical/music review periodicals because the writing about music has gone to the garbage heap, or have musical/music review periodicals writing gone to the garbage heap because we've all stopped reading?
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Post by adogg4629 on Mar 24, 2014 16:17:22 GMT -6
I'm in demo mode now. This is as much a philosophical question as it is a practical one. I want to choose between the Neve 88RS or the SSL E series. Higher track count or component modeling? the backwards layout of the Neve or the more user friendly SSL? I'll be hitting these quick, mainly for dialogue. Looking to brighten up something or make it warm. Talking about small tweaks to the EQ bands. Nothing major. The boost will mostly be between 1.5 and 2.5. Compressor will be a really low ratio, fast attack, high threshold. I don't much care for color. Anybody with experience with these two strips who could help me decide?
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Post by adogg4629 on Mar 20, 2014 10:42:14 GMT -6
I already pulled the trigger on the Thunderbolt Display. And I have to say - I absolutely don't regret it! I did see that Dell monitor and it lolls really nice. I bought this Tbolt display for $750 used, so it was only $100 more than the Dell. I wanted the Tbolt connectivity too. You really can't go wrong with that Display AND for that price!
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