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At 8:27 AM -0700 4/11/02, Evan Meyers wrote: >does anyone use the digi001? I use a Digi 001 in a PowerMac G4/500. I've recorded to an internal IDE drive and I recently bought a Firewire drive and am using that. I'm able to play back up to 24 tracks at 16/44.1 from either drive. I haven't tested the performance limits with many tracks at 24/48, but I'm presently working with that file format and recording four tracks at once. The Digi 001 hardware is fine, as long as you don't need to record at a higher rate than 48kHz. It's easy to use, with a pair of XLR/TRS inputs and headphone output on the front panel and the rest of the analog I/O on the back. The ADAT lightpipe connectors are on the PCI card itself, which can be a little kludgy. My only other complaint is that because Inputs 1 and 2 are on the front panel they are omitted from the rear panel. I'd rather they were duplicated. My principal softwares are Pro Tools LE 5.1 and Peak 3.0, though I have a number of other programs that work well with the Digi hardware. I have a lot of plug-ins including Waves, GRM Tools, Metric Halo's Channel Strip, Speed, and others. For MIDI sequencing I use Digital Performer. I haven't worked with the audio feature of DP yet. Previously I worked mainly in Studio Vision (which by the way is now freeware). Many people prefer Cubase or Logic. I've also amassed a collection of software synths, mainly those from Native Instruments. These are great, but I haven't done any serious work with them. I bought this system about a year and a half ago, and my decision was based primarily on the fact that two of my musical collaborators already had this system. File interchange was therefore simplified. By working with Pro Tools LE I also have easy file interchange with full-on Pro Tools TDM systems, though I haven't needed to do that yet. I'm considering at some point changing to Nuendo and RME hardware. The Nuendo software seems to be much more intuitive and efficient than Pro Tools, and it supports VST plug-ins. The RME hardware offers 96kHz at a good price. -- ______________________________________________________________ Richard Zvonar, PhD (818) 788-2202 http://www.zvonar.com http://RZCybernetics.com http://www.cybmotion.com/aliaszone http://www.live365.com/cgi-bin/directory.cgi?autostart=rz