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Post by Johnkenn on Apr 17, 2014 16:01:27 GMT -6
So what's all the hub bub about? What's supposedly different about it compared to other DAW's?
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Post by popmann on Apr 17, 2014 16:32:12 GMT -6
Couple of points of distinction:
--It's an analog modeled mixer. meaning that aspects like VCC and VTM are rolled into the app natively.
--there's no MIDI...so no virtual BS instrument hosting "music creation environment (although, as point to mention they've promised to start as this has backfired on them with new market engineers in the market driving seat)
--no other application has been written by/under the direction of audio and EE engineers responsible for designing analog consoles.
I wasn't able to get it to work on my iMac in short time...and seeing all the crap it installed, there's no way I'm letting it near my production Windows DAW. I mean it's supposedly a Unix based app...OSX is a Unix based OS...and it had to install all kinds of services--I can't imagine the crap it might have to install on windows.
I think it's a great idea. And maybe they've fixed such tech issues...I really should try again...but...then again--I already upgraded Cubase and committed to a platform. Too little too late for me.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 17, 2014 17:16:57 GMT -6
Well,
those guys from Harrison know their stuff all the way from analog to digital consoles. And also the digital Harrisons are some mighty fine consoles...
Essentially they brought in all their knowledge into a native running application. To give it an environment they "plugged" it into the most promising open source DAW they could find, beeing Ardour.
Ardour sits on Jack, in linux as well as in windows and mac.
I just guess you saw that in OSX, popmann.
In windows it installs an "invisible" copy of a private Jack for Windows server that is started right on application start to provide. Once running - no prob for me.
You may have heard SAE had promised the Ardour developer (yes, it is a one-man show!), money for further fulltime development, some time ago...they wanted to see, if they could jump off the PT train. But somehow things went not nice, they got an SAE edition of the software and then stopped payment...hummmm...
I guess the Harrison guys got curious, tested it and took over...
Well, people pay more for some single plugins, and they would receive a perfectly integrated console emulation with nice emulation of a whole console in detail, gainstaging, saturation, eq, bus filters, channel and bus dynamics, nice metering, easy to understand and use, but great concept and great sound.
Like a non-dongled, native Harrison digital desk with integrated DAW that will never die because it is open source and top of it's kind in linux world. Mature stuff...
Hope that makes the point of it clear. And, well, the emulation runs light on cpu, i guess Harrisons algorithms are highly optimized from the long time digital console experience...
BR,
Martin
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