Hi Tom There should be people selling the 003 factory with the cross grade to PT9. Just did a quick search and it looks like guitar center and sweetwater are still doing it.
--FC On May 23, 2011, at 9:35 PM, soundog wrote: > 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. 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