Hi Scott, Heres an excellent group to join for Pro Tools on the mac. Pro Tools Accessibility I've been running my studio on a mac with pt since 2001, & before that on an adat set up and before that on an ampex mm-1100 16 track 2"inch tape machine. give a call if you want to chat. Thanks Chuck
CHUCK REICHEL [email protected] www.SoundPictureRecording.com 954-742-0019 GUFFAWING :) In GOD I Trust On May 20, 2016, at 11:01 AM, Scott Granados wrote: > Hi Chris, I hope Mark will give us some latitude here but of course if he or > the other mods wish I’d kill the thread no problem. > > That said, I’ve found your comments very very helpful. > > The last recording system I personally owned was an Alesis ADAT with a > Behringer DDX3216 digital mixer. Had analog controls but the busses and > audio path were all 24 bit 100 KHZ digital. For $900 it sounded really warm > and nice and with the extra add on board I had installed I could do full 5.1 > mixes. That being said it was hard to use being blind do to the menus. The > control surfaces were very good with real faders and pots but to work with > the automation or some of your time sync stuff it involved working with an 8 > line LCD display. So the more i can do in software on the mac that’s > accessible the better and from what you’re telling me it sounds like Mac with > Protools hands down. > > I feel a trip to Caruso Music coming on this weekend. There’s something to > be said growing up 8 miles from one of the largest equipment suppliers.:) I > believe they have a full setup I can get my hands on and I aught to be able > to just hit command F5 on the mac. Any tips for a n00by who hasn’t touched > protools? > > Other than the Mac and what sounds like a beautiful midi interface on your > part, have you bothered with much synthesis or sampling gear outside the > application? It sounds like protools does everything for you including the > instrumentation. I think of protools as a direct to disk recording system. > When I was professionally involved with music that’s all it was and it had > other applications you’d run along side like turbo synth or the midi patcher > etc. I guess now I need to think of it as a much more comprehensive music > work station. > > Also keeping it on topic. You mentioned it runs on windows. I can’t imagine > running protools on windows. I had a conversation with DigiDesign back in > the day and they swear up and down they would never ever support the PC. I’m > glad to hear it still runs better on the mac but my how times have changed. > > Thank you for taking the time to respond. I hope others who are in the space > will also post what they are working with or maybe there’s a better mailing > list more specific to audio gear I should join. > > Thanks Chris > > > Scott > > >> On May 20, 2016, at 8:53 AM, Christopher-Mark Gilland >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Scott, >> >> I'll be really honest with you. You know what I use hardware wise as far as >> an interface? I just use a little 4 channel Alesis Multi-Mix 4. Aside from >> it having USB interface, the whole rest of the thing is totally analog. >> It's absolutely beautiful! And, they're dirt cheap, too! Plus, as far as >> accessibility with the mac, just to keep this on topic, there's nothing to >> be accessible about it! It just works. I had an M-Audio Fast Tracks C400, >> which again was 4 channels, as I recall, but the control pannel software was >> totally! inaccessible with Voiceover. I know a lot of blind people, like >> Brian Howerton, etc. who really, and I do mean, really! know their stuff who >> are using the Focusright Sapphire Pro lineup of interfaces and flipping >> swear by them! I've never asked them how accessible the control pannel >> configuration utility is for them, although, I hear that supposedly with >> Voiceover, it's pretty rock solid. >> >> As for a control surface, obviously, the Apogy is really really killer, but >> then, for most average home consumers just getting started, as myself, who >> are more low end professionals, it would probably be overkill. Well, and, >> plus, they're like, 5 grand, so, ehh, um, werpse? ee yeah. Now, Digidesign >> back in the days, made a gorgeous! and I do mean, gorgeous! interface that >> also was combined as a control surface, and it's software was phenominally >> accessible! That was the Digi03. Oh God! that thing was sweet! >> Unfortunately, it's not made anymore. I would freaking kill! for one a >> those things though! And, back when they were around, they were only like, >> $130 or so. Right now, I'm using a presonus Faderport for the control >> surface. In logic, or Reaper, forget it! I never could get the darn thing >> to work. I tried and tried, but it just! will, not do it. For all intense >> and purpose, the software that comes with it is accessible, although there >> really isn't much anything useful in it that you'd really wanna do. It's >> mainly just a driver. You can update its firmware, which is totally >> Voiceover friendly, but that's about it. I mean, that's about it, period. >> I don't mean that's all that is accessible. I'm saying, that's literally >> all the software really does, so nothing to really write home about. It >> does work though. In ProTools however, this device works almost, if not >> totally, perfectly. I think there were maybe one or two buttons I had to >> remap, but for the most part, I'd say 99 percent, it worked right out of the >> box. I don't even remember initially installing the driver. You can, yeah, >> but it's really not necessary. >> >> Anyway, this is kind of very very gradually starting to veer from the topic >> of the mac and Voiceover, so let's try to be really careful with this >> thread. I don't wanna be the enemy here of allowing it to go OT. We're not >> there yet, but I fear it's on its way there. LOL! I think for now, we're >> OK, but I'd just be careful, as admittedly, this kind of is a bit of a grey >> area. >> >> Chris. >> >> -- >> The following information is important for all members of the Mac >> Visionaries list. >> >> If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if >> you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or >> moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. >> >> Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor and your owner is Cara >> Quinn - you can reach Cara at [email protected] >> >> The archives for this list can be searched at: >> http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > > -- > The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries > list. > > If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if > you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or > moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. > > Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor and your owner is Cara > Quinn - you can reach Cara at [email protected] > > The archives for this list can be searched at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. 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