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Originally posted by Sonic dB
The reason why Pro Tools is the "standard" is because as you know they were one of the first to mass market a computer hosted hard disk system back in the mid to late 80s...money rolled in and the marketing power machine known as Digidesign was created... they were acquired by Avid and it got worse...Digi is the Microsoft of the audio industry...and will try to crush anything it their path that they do not own... I know this because they tried to crush the AardSync II, but ultimately I would just flip on an HD (or worse TDM) system and switch between the internal clock and the AardSync II...and everyone in the room or store would immediately notice the improvement that the AardSync II made.
OT.. Igor Levin, who I used to work for...creator of the AardSync II has a new line of Clocks out.. check them out at www.antelopeaudio.com The early reviews are more favourable to the Big Ben.
Plugs aside...
Jason states the absolute truth about PT compatibility with those sound cards... the MBox is a great deal as he noted.
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All right on the mark. Don't even get me started on the floating point math those bastards use for the stereo bus.
HD is the first iteration of "professional" PT that is even close to being tolerable to my ears, but I'm a tape guy when it comes down to it. Probably for the same reasons I like my car.
The true irony of my life is that I have my clients work on a 65K PT setup in a million dollar studio while I still prefer to record at home on a Tascam cassette 8-track with an SM57.
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Real content:
Don't forget that you can have the best of both worlds by also getting an M-Box: You can run either PT or Logic using this interface (this also applies to the Digi002 [not a bad unit, all in all]) and the M-Audio interfaces), so take your pick.
JCM