| Hello,
I appreciate your comments on the latest PT versions - for a number of shows we bring in a PT or Nuendo system(s) to record and/or playback, depending on what the client wants. I also use daw's in post, usually Nuendo (I'm fastest in that format), with PT when needed. Everyone has their favorite daw's, often the subject of religious-like fervor. The issue is that unlike a studio environment live large-scale entertainment television production is very fast. Any daw requires bookkeeping that occupies a full-time operator. Also a huge amount of rack space unless it's a Nuendo madi system. In a production truck the 2nd engineer often is doing patching, audio cue loading and playback, and up to 96 tracks of live recording, sometimes with a duplicate backup system. Putting all that into a truck is done but it's tight and there's often no room for the time overhead of a daw.
The "audio appliance" concept - small, plug it in, turn it on, record good audio - is an ideal that everyone in this community is looking for and the x-48 has that potential but it's not there yet.
H |