Digi 003 questions

[John Gunn]

Hello All,

I might have a chance to obtain a Digi 003 and some questions. I presume it has a firewire 400 Interface and hopefully the drivers are or work with Mavericks?

I also hope the faders work with PT11?

I have also many more questions and someone with knowledge can write me off the list at gu...@tznet.com I would appreciate it.

John

[Slau Halatyn]

Hi John,

Yes, the 003 uses FW400 ports, works with Mavericks and Pro Tools 11. I'm a little confused by your asking whether the faders work in PT 11. If you do get the 003, I'll send you a layout document that'll help you get acquainted with the buttons and controls.

Best,

Slau

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[John Gunn]

Slau,

I guess I meant by faders, can you contrrol volume by faders and if you don't mind, send me the file.

John

[Krister Ekstrom]

Hey,
Just for your information and i hope this is not considered hijacking of this thread since i actually talk about the Digi003. I’m trying to make the 003 work with an app called Surface Reader which can read displays of the surface and tell about what buttons and such are but i think i may need some help with this so if anyone wants to help make the Digi003 accessible with the Surface reader you could consider joining the surfacereader mailing list and share your knowledge of the Digi003 there.
If memory serves me correctly you can get to the mailing list from www.raisedbar.net (bit unsure of the spelling there).
/Krister

[Slau Halatyn]

Hi John,

Yes, certainly, the faders control volume by default. Here's the layout document:

[Ramy Moustafa]

Hi all:
I have my bcf2000K and I saw your digi 2000 lay out, and I think it
will make pro tools more and more easier for us. am I right?
but I tried to buy it but I can't, what about it's price? and where
can I buy it as a new piece? thanks

[Slau Halatyn]

Hi Ramy,

I think you meant the 002 rather than the 200. To whom were you directing your question? Did someone post a layout document for the 002?

Slau

[ramy moustafa]

Sorry i mean digi003
Where can i bought it?

Ramy moustafa saber
Musicc instructor at:
faculty of musical education
music arranger and sound engineer
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[Jed Barton]

Hey guys,
Is this digi003 a good control surface to use? Does it ahve an audio
scrub wheel?

[Poppa Bear]

Yes, it has a scrub wheel.

[Jed Barton]

How much do they usually go for, i take it they are still made? I take
it this is a digidesign product. I'm assuming it has faiders as well?

[ramy moustafa]

R there any cheaper alternatives?

Ramy moustafa saber
Musicc instructor at:
faculty of musical education
music arranger and sound engineer
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[Poppa Bear]

The Digi 002 is less than half the price and does not have the scrub wheel
and has only one headphone jack.

[ramy moustafa]

Hi sir:

i look to buy the digi003 and i found it very expensive,
i have my bcf2000 but i need a jog wheel. can i buy seprate jog wheel?

Ramy moustafa saber
Musicc instructor at:
faculty of musical education
music arranger and sound engineer
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[Slau Halatyn]

Hi Ramy,

It's not clear to whom you were addressing your previous message so I thought I'd chime in. There's nothing offered in the way of scrub/shuttle wheels. There was a product that attempted it with a number of buttons and a central wheel but the wheel didn't operate smoothly. I'm not sure but I think the Artist series has a transport control with a scrub wheel. Of course, hardware is expensive, there's no getting around that.

Slau

[ramy moustafa]

thanks so much sir Slau.  i hope to find something cheap like the bcf2000 but with wheel

Ramy moustafa saber

Musicc instructor at:

faculty of musical education

music arranger and sound engineer

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[Cliff Isaksen]

Hi!  This is nothing less than awesome!

I got PT only one month ago, and I'm going to the post office tomorrow to pick up a Digi 003, so the rtf will really come in handy, Slau!  Thanks a lot!

One question;

Will I need drivers to get the Digi 003 up and running on Mavericks with PT 10, or is it as simple as plug and play?

All the best

Cliff,

NORWAY

[Slau Halatyn]

Hi Cliff,

I've had a 003 knocking around the studio for a while, actually, since Pro Tools version 9 so there was never any need to install drivers, per se. I haven't used it with version 11 so I can't say whether there's any need for installing drivers of any kind. Others with 003s might be able to comment on that. The 003 is not my primary system so I'm not up on the latest news/requirements with that interface.

Best,

Slau

[Alan Macdonald]

Hi cliff, 

I have recently upgraded from pro tools nine to eleven. I use a Digi 002. It was indeed plug and play with version nine but I had to install the drivers to get it up and running with PT eleven. Its an easy download from the Avid website though and you'll be up and running quickly with minimum fuss. 

Alan. 

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[Cliff Isaksen]

Hi and thanks both of you!

Since PT 11 for some weird reason is eating up 120 % of my CPU, I'm using PT 10 as long as possible, so I'll probably just have to try and see if I can use the Digi 003 first without installing any drivers.  And if that won't work, I'll have to take a look at the avid website and see if I can find it! :)

I was at first thinking about something more expensive like a C24 or a D-Command as my controller, but the thing is, I really don't have enough room for it in my little home studio, so the Digi 003 seemed to be a good option for a not THAT big expense as the others, that are more on the expensive side... 

Well, wish me luck...  Really looking forwards to laying my hands on a real controller surface now!  

Kind regards from "Tired-of-interacting-Cliff"

[Nick Gawronski]

Hi, Yes you will need to install the digi 003 drivers for 10 and 11.  I am not sure if you need both but I had a person from Avid remote into my mac and fix the ilok license for me and they installed the drivers.  Nick Gawronski

[Poppa Bear]

From what I understand, PT 11 takes up a smaller CPU foot print than any of the other versions of PT.

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Subject: Re: Digi 003 questions

[Slau Halatyn]

Cliff,

Have you tried to reinstall Mavericks from scratch and only install Pro Tools? It doesn't make sense that the program would make your system gun its fans. Which machine are you on? Also, I'm sorry, but how does a process take up 120% or was that just an exaggeration?

Best,

slau

On May 12, 2014, at 5:28 AM, Cliff Isaksen <cliffi...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi guys!
> I have run into some issues, and I really need some suggestions from someone who's not just as new as myself to the world of PT and controllers... :)
> The Problem is this: PT 11 works pretty fine together with the Digi 003 driver for 11, but PT 11 also eats up over 120 % of my Mac's CPU, so the fan starts running only after 1 minute after booting PT up, and after that, it's more or less unusable... Tried all I can think of, but nothing seems to work for fixing it.
> So I'll have to use PT 10, and I can't get the PT 10 driver for the Digi 003 to work in Mavericks. Can only get the driver for PT 11 to work.
> So I downgraded to MountainLion again, and tried installing both PT 10 and the 003 driver for PT 10. Now everything seems to work on the 003, but sound from the Mac, including VoiceOver, can't be played through the 003, and that is a huge problem... I can only playback audio from PT through the 003 and nothing more. Everything else comes out of the internal speakers, and VO also lags a lot in PT 10 now. By the way, PT 11 still rapes my processor in MountainLion... Still uses over 120 % CPU...
> I'm about to give up, and I think maybe I'll just have to upgrade to Mavericks again, and run PT 10 without using the 003 at all...
> Sorry, this got long, but I'm just out of ideas, and obviously too much of a new be to fix this myself...
> Any good suggestions?
> Thanks in advance! :)

[Cliff Isaksen]

Hi!

Yeah, I sort of did that today… Two days ago I deleted the Machintosh HD and started fresh on MountainLion, and today I reinstalled Mavericks over a pretty fresh ML, so that’s probably the next best I could do.. :)
I’m on a MacBook Pro 13», mid 2012, 8 GB ram and 2,9 Ghz processor, if I remember correctly…
Well, the thing about the CPU usage has baffled me too… I remember before going back to ML, the Activity Monitor in Mavericks told me that Pro tools 11 was using somewhere around 129 % CPU, and that shouldn’t be possible… It’s a little bit better today, but still when I checked, PT used 71 %, Kernal was doing something funky that used up over 50 % and MSD (think it’s some kind of Spotlight indexing) was using over 60 %.
The only explanation I can think of, is that my processor probably has multi cores and that each core might be counted as 100 % of CPU. So if I have 4 cores, I might have a total of 400 % CPU available… Or? Well, as you may correctly have gathered already, I haven’t googled too much about processors and stuff yet…
I really just wanna get down to business as soon as possible, and lay down some funky tracks with great music, and not have to deal with all this frustrating stuff before getting started with the real deal! :)
Thanks a lot for all your help, it’s highly appreciated! :)

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[Slau Halatyn]

Hi Cliff,

I think everybody can sympathize with wanting to get up and running as fast as possible. There are two things that come to mind based on what you've just written. If you're running on a fresh install, Spotlight will certainly spend a bunch of time indexing any drives connected to the machine including the internal drive. That might be the cause of initial CPU load if you just installed the OS and tried to run Pro Tools early on.

More importantly, did you follow the Intro to Pro Tools system setup instructions including turning off Spotlight indexing for recording drives? Speaking of which, are you trying to record to an internal drive?

Slau

On May 12, 2014, at 5:21 PM, Cliff Isaksen <cliffi...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi!
>

> Yeah, I sort of did that today... Two days ago I deleted the Machintosh HD and started fresh on MountainLion, and today I reinstalled Mavericks over a pretty fresh ML, so that's probably the next best I could do.. :)
> I'm on a MacBook Pro 13>>, mid 2012, 8 GB ram and 2,9 Ghz processor, if I remember correctly...
> Well, the thing about the CPU usage has baffled me too... I remember before going back to ML, the Activity Monitor in Mavericks told me that Pro tools 11 was using somewhere around 129 % CPU, and that shouldn't be possible... It's a little bit better today, but still when I checked, PT used 71 %, Kernal was doing something funky that used up over 50 % and MSD (think it's some kind of Spotlight indexing) was using over 60 %.
> The only explanation I can think of, is that my processor probably has multi cores and that each core might be counted as 100 % of CPU. So if I have 4 cores, I might have a total of 400 % CPU available... Or? Well, as you may correctly have gathered already, I haven't googled too much about processors and stuff yet...

[Cliff Isaksen]

Ahhh…

I was trying to record to an internal drive earlier on when the CPU usage was sky high! That might be the reason why it has gone from 120 to 70 % now, since I’ve formatted an old drive for exclusive pro tools use.
But I don’t think this drive even is the best either for PT use… Well, that might be it, even though I didn’t see anything like it when trying the same in PT 10… :)
Anyways, I’m making a Mavericks installer USB as we speak, and will do a completely fresh Mavericks install in a few minutes, cause I installed Digi 003 drivers for PT 10 in MountainLion, and after that didn’t work out, I upgraded to Mavericks and installed PT 11 and the corresponding 003 drivers. I see that some have said that having both 003 drivers installed at the same time may cause some glitches and hick-ups, so now I’m just starting fresh on everything again! :)
Lets see if that might cause things to work a little bit smoother… :)
I’ll rather take the work now than to get 2 tracks down tomorrow and then have to do the work anyways! :)
Thank you again for all your kind help! :)