Hi John, OK, I think I have a better understanding where you're coming from. The sampling stuff is probably going to be an issue for you if that's a large part of what you do. Everything else would be fine. If keeping up appearances is part of it, then by all means, make that migration. If maintaining the same level of accessibility is more important on the soft synth side, perhaps you might want to consider keeping a legacy system around. Hope that helps and please feel free to post questions if you need to bounce off some ideas.
Best, Slau On Feb 26, 2012, at 5:56 PM, John Boral wrote: > Hi, thanks for the quick reply. I'm from Canada and as far as I know > we don't have any old PT 5 blind users around. My level meters were > built by a tech > to beep off of the peak readings. Not completely accurate all of the > time do to transients but works great most of the time. In the real > world I'd like > to be current which is where the big change came from but I thought > there would be a lot more in the way of samplers and synths. I lock > Sonar digitally > through the 888 IO which I'm going to have to get rid of if I make > this big switch. I guess I should spell out for you what I was really > looking for. #1 > I wanted more sampler and synth power with accessibility which I guess > is not coming very soon. #2 I want to remain current with a version of > PT that won't > get laughed at which I don't think will happen enough as long as PT > stays current with VO. #3 I'd like to experience some things that > couldn't be done > with PT 5 for blind users witchh I'm not sure of > yet as to the accessibility difference in PT with VO. #4 Everything I > do is editing, mixing and sampleing. The big thing here is live bands > with tons of > samples and a large amount of editing, so, time is important. I hate > to be watched by anybody who might be thinking I'm slower than them > because of being > blind. When I work with sighted engineers on huge projects there can > be up to 5 engineers at a time in a live situation and just about 100% > of the time > I'm faster. That's the reason I want to switch over because when I'm > working with others I want to have a system that's compatible > throughout the PT universe.
