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In Reply to: RE: Need recommendation on DAW's. posted by GWILLY on October 03, 2008 at 16:22:00
Im researching the Tascam SX1 LE right now and it sounds fantastic. The only problem is i'm having troule locating any for sale. I reside in Canada, close to Toronto so if anybody knows someone selling this unit, i'd be happy for a referal.
G.
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The SX1 was a turd to sell. When it was conceived, it seemed like a good deal. Then other manufacturers and technological advancements beat it to death when it finally came to market. There weren't that many that actually made it. Full Compass was blowing them out for 25% of the retail to get rid of them.
If you are going to use your DAW for live use, same computer, cards and all, there is only one option. SAWStudio and SAC. Bob has it down and it cannot be beaten for multi-purpose applications. www.sawstudio.com
There are many arguments about this, but THE most widely used in professional applications is Pro Tools. PT8 was just anounced. Check it out on Digidesign's site, www.digidesign.com. There are more PT systems sold and in use world wide than all others combined everal times over. But, PT isn't really set up to be a live mixer, although I have done several times while recording live. I have PT HD.
If I were starting out, and was used to hardware, and knew the basics of audio, I would start with SAW and SAC.
Thanks for this information. I perused this site, but i'm not entiredly sure that it's what i'm looking for? This appears to be a computer based DAW and what i was thinking about was a hardware based machine. My idea was to dump PC's.
I'm also not entirely sure what i need for this program. Is it a software mixer, recording package? What control surfaces and other devices do you need. I'm not an experienced Pc guy. I'm coming at this from the direction of a Roland digital four track. A roomate i used to live with had Cubase and a digital mixer - but i didn't gel with that setup. It was a bit to exhasting to configure and troubleshoot etc..
I was thinking more along the lines of some of the glut of discared DAW's from Roland or Yamaha/Korg that seem to have been abandoned by people replacing them with PC solutions.
However this software does look intriguing, especially with all the video tutorials. What all would i need to buy to run it?
Thanks..
You aren't going to find anything but PC and Mac based solutions. Those are the industry standard things. All of those all in one types of systems did not sell well because they were closed-ended, and used out of date technology by the time they hit the market, using repackaged PCs with trimmed down older versions of Windows or Linux OS's. They are not usually easily updated, because of their drivers, etc.There are systems made by Fairlight, which are all in one systems, but you are talking hundreds of thousands of dollars for those, and they would be WAY more than you could handle/use.
Edits: 10/04/08
I have been reading this post and can't help but jump into the fray.
IMHO you could do an admirable job ( 16bit 48k, 16 channels in, live 16 ch mixing,mixdown w/fx-compression-and 4band parametric eq )using a Yamaha AW4416 DAW with an 8 channel input card and an 8 ch mic preamp.
Unfortunately I just sold my AW to a friend. My business partner and I had used that system extensively on live recording FOH mixing jobs and I can't think of a single time it failed. I am NOT employed by Yamaha.
You should be able to find the AW used for sub-1k. The MY audio cards for sub-250.00, and Presonus makes a respectable 8 ch pre for $400-600.
Understand, I am not opposed to CPU based DAW systems, ( we use a Motu/Cubase rig currently). I am simply relaying my experience with a system that well handled the job/s you require.
Tone,
Our "other" rig sounds much better!!
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