Post people: what systems do you use (mainly)?
Steven Ghouti
there are using. I know it's becoming a Digidesign world, but it would be
interesting to see what machines you trust and invested in.
We work with Fairlight MFX3+ stations. We have 2 of them now, but started
out in 99 with what we could afford ie. Akai DD1500 (since sold). Happy as
pigs in mud for editing, a bit grumpy about import/export issues.
We also have a Mac G4 in each room to run audio "tweaking" software: PT LE
(works fine for running RTAS plug-ins), Peak, Kontakt sampler and others.
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Steven GHOUTI
YELLOW CAB Studios
Paris, France
Jay Rose
> Hi all. I was wondering what audio editing workstations most of you out
> there are using. I know it's becoming a Digidesign world, but it would be
> interesting to see what machines you trust and invested in.
I use an Orban AudicyVX, sort of a Fairlight-type design (dedicated tower,
fully integrated control surface, mouseless) for a lot less money. It's
incredibly fast. I supplant it with a Mac running the usual suspects --
Peak, SoundHack, DP3, and of course SpectraFoo. For additional tweaking
and designey stuff, an Orville.
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Dennis Weinreich
AMS Audiofile SC is our main system. We also have a couple of Protools
(V5.2) which is OK, but we don't get overly excited. The 2
Audiovisions remain more popular. Recently we did a picture on Nuendo
and have to say although we took it on as a cheap tool for assistants,
it has really impressed us. We took delivery of our first Audiofile in
1986 serial number 0004, so our growth as a company was linked to the
AMS stuff. We regularly look to other platforms to replace our 'files,
but really have not found anythng that is significantly better. Easier
to learn to use, certainly.
Philip Perkins
does the heavy lifting, the Sound Forge does the file conversion and
specialized signal processing stuff and the PT is for truly bolloxed
OMFs and research and development purposes. For all of you out there
NOT using ProTools all the time but needing to work with OMFs of
varying quality: get yourself AVTransfer, and use it to convert the
OMFs to AES31 projects. Most all of the non-PT workstations can
import AES31 now, and it works MUCH better and more reliably with
fewer clips-from-mars and other mysteries than OMF ever did. (Or ever
will, since Avid has stopped developing OMF and is trying to get us
all to go with their new export utility, "AAF".)
Philip Perkins
BrunoSound
their upgrade path I learned ProTools and do some work on it, but Sonic is
still my regular platform. Like others have mentioned, I also use other MacOS
software for various things, including but certainly not limited to BarbaBatch,
Peak, Soundhack, and plugins from Waves and Arboretum.
Bruno
Bruno Strapko CAS
Strapko Recorders
Schaumburg IL
vinod subramanian
vinod
sound mixer
INDIA