Besides Pro Tools, your only other professional accessible solution is Sonar. You'll have to setup BootCamp on your Mac, and boot in to Windows to run it.
You'll need: Sonar Jaws 8 or newer A Jaws scripts package for Sonar like CakeTalking or JSonar. JSonar is free, but not quite as stable in some areas of Sonar. If all that you're doing is tracking, though, it will be fine. CakeTalking comes with a 400+ page book of how-tos for a blind user of Sonar. If you want to get a job accomplished quickly, and have access to procedures for how to accomplish the tasks as a blind guy, then CakeTalking is worth it. Sonar doesn't impose artificial limitations on how many inputs you can record at once. You just need the interface and computer to pull it off. A newer MBP can record to 24 tracks at once via Sonar easily. However, if you're working exclusively from the internal drive, you'll need to live with some latency in order to have everything operate smoothly. A higher-end iMac or Mac Pro can handle it no problem at all. I don't know of any 24 input Firewire interfaces that can be stacked off-hand. Most that I've seen stop at 16 inputs. If you're using a Mac Pro, though, you can high-end Lynx or RME cards, which will work fine with Sonar under BootCamp. The trick, of course, is getting something that can also be used with Pro Tools when you need to operate on that side. I haven't tried this, but Reaper, at least on Windows, might be able to help with the tracking on the cheap. There is access to it via Jaws. It's mixing capabilities aren't on the level of Sonar or Pro Tools, but it might be able to track that many inputs for you, if raw tracking is all that you need. Let us know how it works out. Bryan -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Frank Carmickle Sent: Monday, June 14, 2010 1:52 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: While we're doing intros... Hello again I just reread the thread on mac visionaries and found your response about Logic. So no need to reply. It does lead me to another question though. If I want to use any old firewire a/d d/a for at least 24 tracks of recording it will need some software to do it other than PT. What would be recommended? I'm trying to avoid spending $11,000 plus to get a 24 track recording solution. If I'm spending that much maybe I will just buy a radar. The $11k would be 2 Lynx Auroras and PT HD. Thanks --FC On Jun 14, 2010, at 1:06 AM, Frank Carmickle wrote: > Hi Brian > > On Jun 13, 2010, at 8:24 PM, Bryan Smart wrote: > >> There isn't another list right now, because there are only a few people >> using Logic, either with really hard-to-get-going approaches, or with tools >> that they can't share/talk about. For all practical purposes, it isn't an >> accessible DAW yet. >> > The scripts that were linked to on the mac visionaries list a month or so ago > are what I was going to try. I grabbed a copy of them but I don't have logic > now so I haven't tried them yet. Any idea if they work? I'll see if I can > find the link again. > > I went back and forth with Apple accessibility about Logic. All they could > tell me is they have no information at this time. I took that to mean that > it will be coming in some version at some point. > >> You might have better luck with either the VIMac-Audio list (general >> Mac audio talk), or with MIDIMag (general music production talk for >> blind guys on all platforms). www.midimag.org >> > Good tips. Thanks. > > Regards > --FC >
