Mackie Cracks The Digidesign Code

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Вот такая новость :crazy:

http://www.sonicstate.com/news/2009/07/31/mackie-cracks-the-digidesign-code/

A dark, mysterious box arrived at Sonic Towers containing a ransom style note, a video and a brand new (yet to be announced) Onyx 820i Premium Analog Mixer with Perkins EQ and Firewire , plus what turned out to be a bit of a bombshell.

Also in the box was a boxed copy of Digidesign (or should that be Avid?) Pro Tools 8 M-Powered My initial thoughts were: What's that doing in there, they won't work together? But then the penny began to drop - I can be a bit slow sometimes.

What Mackie have done is written a driver - the Mackie Universal Driver V1.0, which appears to circumvent the ProTools/Digidesign hardware protection that ties Digidesign or M-Audio hardware to M-Powered software. Essentially they have cracked the code. This means that you can use the new Mackie Onyx i Series mixers as the audio hardware component of a Pro Tools LE system, using it as the audio I/O, yes, that's right, you did read that correctly. I've not had a chance to extensively test this at the time of writing, but I intend to take a closer look.

There is no official word on this for now, so we'll have to wait "a few weeks". Mackie have yet to make an announcement. It is not clear whether this is sanctioned by Avid or not.

Now I've told you, I'm going to have to spend the rest of my life with a guilty conscience - coz I guess by now the dog will be pushing up daisies. But then, I never liked Chihuahuas...
 
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А я че-то не понял, откуда к нему прибыла эта черная коробка прям вместе с копией ПТ? Из магазина или откуда-то еще?
 
Ну тема сама прикольная канеш как факт.. А скока этот оникс стоит интересно? И как звучит, кто-нить слышал?
Пойду позырю в инете..
PS
А еще он не уточнил - ПТ его коррректно понимает как многовходовое устройство или просто может сквозь него гонять стерео..
 
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digisystem, думаю если так, то скоро всплывут все подробности.. очень скоро :)) давно уже пора :rofl:
 
Посмотрел. При условии моторезированности фейдеров и их послушности ПТ, это может быть прикольной многовходовой альтернативой ДИГИ! При условии полной многоканальности канеш..
 
Тут ещё интересней новость - Диджики с М-Аудио решили отхватить нижайший сегмент рынка с копеечными решениями и Pro Tools Essential - сильно порезаным М-Паверед по количеству треков, но с неплохими инструментами в наборе. Предлагаются 3 варианта - с ЮСБ миком, с МИДИ-клавой и ЮСБ звуковухой Fast Track (все по 129 баксов).
http://www.sonicstate.com/news/2009/09/10/pro-tools-for-all/
или на новом Молайне:
http://www.moinf.info/equip/avid-pro-tools-keystudio
http://www.moinf.info/equip/avid-pro-tools-recording-studio
http://www.moinf.info/equip/avid-pro-tools-vocal-studio
 
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В октябрьском Sound On Sound обзор 820i ,есть и как он протулзом работает.
 
В октябрьском Sound On Sound обзор 820i ,есть и как он протулзом работает.

My initial experience with Pro Tools M-Powered was a little fraught, as I had trouble getting Pro Tools to install on my system. It turned out that some odd Pro Tools files had been left there from an earlier M-Box-related adventure and the uninstaller hadn’t removed them all, so I had to locate them and evict them by hand, after which Pro Tools M-Powered 8 installed fine. This version of Pro Tools ran perfectly with my own M-Audio Profire 2626 interface, but when I disconnected this and instead connected the Onyx, Pro Tools insisted there was no compatible hardware. A call to Mackie revealed that the Onyx ‘looks like’ a Profire 2626 as far as Pro Tools is concerned, so there was a conflict between the Onyx driver and my existing Profire 2626 software. I must stress, however, that this review system was an early version and Mackie are hoping to solve that problem before the official release date or, at worst, shortly afterwards. To continue testing the current version, I uninstalled my Profire 2626 software and Pro Tools loaded up without a hitch.
Once a new session has been set up in Pro Tools, it is necessary to go to the Setup / I/O page and click ‘default’ for the inputs and outputs, so that the software can access the eight Onyx inputs and two Onyx outputs. There’s no hardware setup control panel for the Onyx, so sample rate and buffer size have to be set in the menu that appears when you create a new session. Once I’d completed these steps, the Onyx worked with Pro Tools M-Powered just as it would with any other DAW software, so it would appear that the Mackie driver does exactly as claimed.
 
Here's a list of things NOT available in Essential:

Save Copy In
Save As Template
Send via digidelivery
Send to sibelius
Import session Data
Import video
Export MIDI
Export Sibelius
Mute/Unmute Region
Strip Silence
Make Track inactive
Group Tracks
Lock Regions
Group Regions
Elastic
Midi Real time Properties
Beat Detective
Quickpunch
Transport Online
Peripherals
Preferences (WTF?)
MIDI Studio Config
Window Configurations
Score Editor

Вот чего точно нет:

No smart tool
No groups
No pencil tool
Grid and Shuffle Mode only
No elastic properties
Proprietary plugins it comes with only 3 inserts per channel
10 levels of undo
No solo or mute latching
 
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Beckoff, ну это не в эту тему вообщето как и новость Alex_HS :)

.. да и можно в раздел ПТ тему перенести, так как с тех пор как я запостил всё уже подтвердилось :)
 

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