KVR Audio

james0tucson · Post by **james0tucson** » Tue Jul 26, 2005 7:40 am

Algorythm wrote:It depends..For a home studio like mine, i need more the best pc around, than a complete pro tools solution which should fit better to someone who ownes a pro studio (with many artists recording many types of music stuff there, other demanding and other not.)
With new technology when someone is not a professional in music industry, but a "home musician - researcher - music technology student etc.." he could buy middle priced but veeery effective hardware or software.For example, in my opinion, someone who buys a 'state of the art' pair of monitors for his home studio, is giving extra money without a reason, because monitors like these need exactly measured room dimensions and professional "calibration" of the room's acoustics to work right.It's the same with pro tools.It's the case that someone needs them for...

Buried in your value assumptions is the belief that PT is actually better than the current midrange crop of hardware and software solutions. But plenty of pros who are forced to use PT (or at least, forced to *say* they use PT) disagree with that assessment.

ObsoleteAcc99 · Post by **ObsoleteAcc99** » Tue Jul 26, 2005 7:43 am

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alan alda jnr. · Post by **alan alda jnr.** » Tue Jul 26, 2005 7:55 am

stag wrote:
ttoz wrote:
maoinhibitor wrote:If I had tons of money, I would not go to Pro Tools...why bother, SONAR does everything I need and it does it better.

If money really were no object, I would build the most bad-ass PC I could imagine...a 64-bit machine with 8 Dual Processors, a terabyte of RAM, 2 3-head video cards, 32 channels of audio I/O with top of the line a/d converters...the works
except no software would run on it
Nuendo and Win2003 support 12 CPU.

please explain! Which mobo has 12 cpu slots?

bugs · Post by **bugs** » Tue Jul 26, 2005 7:58 am

Not for computer and elecronic music I wouldn't. PT has inferior MIDI to any number of sequencers and the audio isn't really better--very early 90s technology for live recording. The whole paradigm has shifted in the last ten years. If I had unlimited resources I would spend on highend virtual instruments and sample libraries first--GIGO.

ObsoleteAcc99 · Post by **ObsoleteAcc99** » Tue Jul 26, 2005 8:04 am

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stag · Post by **stag** » Tue Jul 26, 2005 1:21 pm

I think not, Win2003 Data Center support 12 CPU, Nuendo3 8.
Anyway i´ll give it a look.

bduffy · Post by **bduffy** » Tue Jul 26, 2005 3:09 pm

bugs wrote:Not for computer and elecronic music I wouldn't. PT has inferior MIDI to any number of sequencers and the audio isn't really better--very early 90s technology for live recording. The whole paradigm has shifted in the last ten years. If I had unlimited resources I would spend on highend virtual instruments and sample libraries first--GIGO.

Good point. Or on a super-kick-ass hardware A/D solution, if that is indeed where PT has the edge.

Meffy · Post by **Meffy** » Tue Jul 26, 2005 3:31 pm

bugs wrote:If I had unlimited resources I would spend on highend virtual instruments and sample libraries first--GIGO.

GIGOsampler? Now there's an instrument I could use to great effect. To judge from the "G" I make, I might already using it. *9_9*

Meffy
living proof that it's the musician, not the equipment, that counts

Alan · Post by **Alan** » Tue Jul 26, 2005 4:27 pm

ChimeraMan wrote:I have a PT system . The hardware is worth the money alone. Whether it's the converters or wtvr the f#@k it is, I have yet to come across another solution to touch it!

Practically every studio Ive been in throws Appogee or Mytek or something else to bypass PTHD's converters,but everyone does have their own taste though.

markroom · Post by **markroom** » Tue Jul 26, 2005 6:57 pm

pro tools is cool but

maoinhibitor · Post by **maoinhibitor** » Wed Jul 27, 2005 1:41 pm

ttoz wrote:
maoinhibitor wrote:If I had tons of money, I would not go to Pro Tools...why bother, SONAR does everything I need and it does it better.

If money really were no object, I would build the most bad-ass PC I could imagine...a 64-bit machine with 8 Dual Processors, a terabyte of RAM, 2 3-head video cards, 32 channels of audio I/O with top of the line a/d converters...the works
except no software would run on it

SONAR would run on it...Sonar has multi-processor support and a free 64-bit version. Of course I would dual boot for awhile to run things until they port to 64-bit

ObsoleteAcc99 · Post by **ObsoleteAcc99** » Wed Jul 27, 2005 2:01 pm

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proletkult · Post by **proletkult** » Wed Jul 27, 2005 3:01 pm

For the projects I'm doing now I'm sticking with what I've got but if life got busier I'd either find some one with protools who really knew what they were doing or bite the bullet. The trouble is some people are really anal about what you use and judge that before the quality of your work(or as an excuse to dismiss you). IMHO some people buy it to fit in. Like religeon, if you've grown up with it, its hard to see it any other way!

grillo · Post by **grillo** » Wed Jul 27, 2005 3:14 pm

Not really, or at least, if i had the money i'd buy a studio facility and then install there a protools system, icon or something, just because when you have all that money you just buy out the whole set up, and as somebody already said pt is still good at making 'whole' systems solutions with control surface and the hardware you need.

But since i do electronica i don't really need the big protools system and the studio. I'd just use it to overdub live instruments and voices and whatever i feel like adding during the mix. If i had money to spare i'd build a studio (yeah with pt) to mix in, but wouldnt change my not so great laptop or desktop pcs with fruity, virtuals and samples for preproduction, i don't see how i could actually make my music better and faster with another setup

stag · Post by **stag** » Wed Jul 27, 2005 3:21 pm

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Would you go protools if you had the money?