Comments on: Digidesign: Future Here or End is Near??

By: G. Espinoza

G. Espinoza — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 23:21:17 +0000

I agree with CJS’s comment regarding the degradation, or at least the apparent apathy of Digidesign. I have been using Protools since it’s infancy and have been spending lots of dough trying to catch up with hardware upgrades and chassis/card configuration changes. I would jump ship right now (to the LOGIC BOAT) if it weren’t for the fact that most of the Post Production houses (where I work) in Los Angeles still use Protools. It has been way too long since hardware has been issued that is worthy of today’s standards. Sure, they’ve gone into consoles and software, but how old is the PCI card and the rack mount I/O’s? How about a mid-range solution that is in-between the Digi 003 and HD TDM?

By: CJS

CJS — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 18:52:41 +0000

As far as I'm concerned Avid can ["****"!] I had a PT HD System that I sold recently and lost my a** on! I was a fool and upgraded to PT 8.0.3 and my system would continuously [***] the bed.... You cant give this s[tuff] away anymore. I bought a new Imac and Logic Pro 9 and it runs better and faster than my HD system ever ran for literally half the cost. I run waves SSL and CLA bundles in realtime just as I had in PT HD with absolutely no hangups and no visible latency. I would also add that the conversion using Apogee UV 22 to bounce is FAAAAARRRRRR superior to the PT bounce algorithm.... The bottom line is that Avid support has gone to [the dogs] because they fired all of the talent. I had been using PT for 7+ years and LOVED it up to about a year ago with the release of PT 8. In my opinion they rushed the release because they are trying to compete. The fact is that the industry leaders are rapidly becoming industry followers. I am now a logic user with very few complaints, I will say that it takes a while to get use to it but it is so intuitive once you cross over. Digi and Pro Tools needs to be taken away from Avid because they are destroying what use to be a good company!!!!!! [Ed: Appreciate the post, but let's keep it "family style"-- Thanks! DS]

By: ConnorSmith

ConnorSmith — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 22:40:27 +0000

@Lee

Sounds like a great setup! Keep us posted on the progress and feel free to send us over pics of your setup.

By: lee Arthur

lee Arthur — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 22:21:27 +0000

yep I think that right on the money. i have been gearing up to leave my roland 2400 DAW for a computer based system and i have started buying the hardware for the apogee symphony system. Sure I’ll have a pt le system for mixing and for file sharing. But i am going logic9/macpro/apogee Rosetta 800 with a u87 and UA 6176 preamp..yep my front end is TTTTTTTTIGHT

By: ConnorSmith

ConnorSmith — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 20:06:13 +0000

I agree –

I think Digidesign got a bit of a wake up call when Logic Studio 8 came out. Apple just took over from eMagic, and not only did they greatly expand the feature set of the software, they cut the price in half…. (to $500).

The native market is huge right now. I definitely think there will always be a place (at least in the foreseeable future) for processing cards of sorts (aka the TDM format), especially for i/o routing. Digidesign needs to expand a bit in the native area in order to stay as competitive over the next 4-6 years.

By: Mr. Mister, Esquire

Mr. Mister, Esquire — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 18:25:04 +0000

They’ve got to come up with something. There are lot of people, like me, who are long time PT users who are jumping ship for Logic 9.