[ddots-l] Re: Mac support for CakeTalking and Sonar
- From: "Phil Muir" <info@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 29 Aug 2010 18:16:04 +0100
Brandon wrote: I'm dealing with this problem atm... My schools recording
studio is all Pro Tools based and my stuff is Sonar based. So what we have
Hypothesized would be the best thing to do would be to have a fire-wire
drive so we can transfer from 1 computer to another.
Phil replied: does the school have a digi translator? If so then, you could
use OMF to do the transfer between systems.
Brandon wrote: I was told that having the duel-boot-up system would not be
the best thing because there was some problems with all the hardware and
whatnot not working smoothly.
Phil replied: with regard to duel boot, that will work fine if you are using
a Mac with Snowlepard on one side and Windows on the other. No reason why
it shouldn't work. Choice of hardware is important though as you want
hardware that you can use in PT and sonar that is, if you're going to go
that
route.
Brandon wrote: But My teachers have been talking to the guys at Avid who are
in charge of the accessibility on Pro Tools and they said there wouldn't
ever be full accessibility for Pro Tools because for one it's not worth
their time,
Phil replied: depends how you define full accessibility. As I and others
have posted, I think it will probably be around 5 years time until Pro tools
becomes as accessible as Sonar currently is. I won't be using PT here for a
while as I don't have a MAC. Also, the equivalent of the event view in Pro
Tools that we use to edit MIDI events, isn't accessible. that's a deal
breaker for me as I do a lot of MIDI editing. Finally, it could be some
time until they make elastic audio, the equivalent of Audio Snap accessible
in PT.
Brandon wrote: and second they don't want to compete with Sonar which
already is way more accessible than pro Tools could be in a long time.
Phil replied: I personally don't by that argument at all as Avid, want to
make as much money as any DAW vender does, especially in this climate.
Brandon wrote: So I'd advise getting your own custom built DAW with Sonar.
Phil replied: or if you have the cash, a hi end MAC with Windows 7 on one
side and Snowlepard on the other.
Brandon wrote: And BTW I think the person you are wanting to be would be a
mixer... I believe mastering usually comes along with that, but here where I
am you go to a group of people for recording, go to another person for
mixing then for mastering, then you go to your producer if you have one and
they say yes or no then depending on what other people you have on your
production loop it gets printed. So the guys who add affects like that are
usually the mixers.
Phil replied: depends. We have done mixing and mastering here for clients.
We have also recorded projects from scratch and occasionally record guitar
parts that will be used on other's projects.
Brandon wrote: Mastering is more of the details, after it gets mixed there
is still like a vibe that needs to be gotten out of the sound and a feel
that the music needs to send out and the mastering guy amplifies that.
Phil replied: it can be done like that too.
Brandon wrote: But basically (I know here) you should know how to do
everything at least a little... I'm more in the mixing, mastering and
performing stuff, but I still do miking and engineering if I can...
Phil replied: it's handy to know a little of everything as that can help you
understand the whole process.
Brandon wrote; Hope this helps and sorry for my long sentences...
Phil replied: no problem!
Regards, Phil Muir
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