I am not sure was version 8 even accessible?
Jake
----- Original Message -----
From: "soundog" <stiles....@gmail.com>
To: "Pro Tools Accessibility" <ptaccess@googlegroups.com>
Sent: Monday, May 23, 2011 6:35 PM
Subject: Re: Would like an opinion on this computer
Yes Jake, I was looking at the 003 interface as an option for you
also. I'd go with the 003 Factory though... echoing Frank's
suggestion about starting simple, I think you're throwing $700 away
with 003 Complete and you haven't even started learning the software
yet.....Also t's not even the current version of the software so
you're going to want to upgrade at some point to PT9. Unfortunately,
I haven't found a vendor who's selling a Digi003 bundled with ProTools
9, just with version 8.
You don't want a solid state drive for your audio recording drive, not
allowed for ProTools. You can get that solid state drive for your
internal program drive if you like..... For your projects get an
external Firewire drive with an Oxford chipset in it, as detailed on
the Avid recommended hard drives page....
http://avid.custkb.com/avid/app/selfservice/search.jsp?DocId=380567
I also support Frank's other suggestions for the computer.... and I'm
copying this to your email.
regards, Tom
On May 20, 12:53 pm, Frank Carmickle <fr...@carmickle.com> wrote:
Hello Jake
If you are going to have some agency purchase you a computer make sure you
include some of the things that you would add on. You really need two
drives. One for system and software and one for audio. If it were me I
would be buying a machine with a solid state disk. It's really really so
so so much faster. The 27 inch imac is the best machine to buy right now
if you aren't going to be looking at using hd. So this is a great choice.
I'm glad to see that you are getting 8 gb of memory. Make sure that you
get them to buy you a control surface and audio interface. I think right
now the best thing is probably the 003. I think it has the right controls
for the money and the a/d and d/a is good enough.
As we talked about on a conference calls some months ago now, you really
need to start out with a small analog unit like a portastudio to start
understanding how to work with audio. Please do not just jump in to a
computer based audio setup with out doing this step first. Get some
experience. Go to sessions with helpful engineers. Tom, on this list, is
near by you. I'm sure he would love to give you a hand and maybe already
is for all I know.
HTH
--FC
On May 19, 2011, at 5:54 PM, Jake wrote:
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