This thread just reinforces everything I've felt about digidesign for some years now. They don't understand it, nor will they ever get it either. $7K to $10K huh?
Really? And still no native interface with Nuendo, or Logic, or Cakewalk, or Ambelton etc. Faaking light is always on up there in the ivory tower and nobody is home as usual.
Their software is probably great, their TDM system is probably great, it is all probably as software elegant as software GUI gets, but you knowwhat folks, the commentators said it all all over again in this thread. Digi cannot be masters of both the 'forced' platform and the I/O with such marvelous 30+ years of I/O on the market to plug into instead. Focusrite standards huh? Why are you always selling yourself short from a total market cross platform integration HUI/GUI layer?
Even the Intel-Windows community established ISO community layers that permit all integrated software packages now to communicate effectively at the OS porting levels. Like Mr. Massenburg said in a live presentation once upon a time, "Maybe the industry sold itself short at 16:44.1, 16:48...." I cannot think of a better analogy DIGI.
Wouldn't a control 16 or 24 or 32 or 48 or 64 surface w/o preamps and an AES /TDIF/ ADAT SMUX layer to route our already invested Symphonys, or 2882s, or FF800s, or Aurora Lynxs' or Lavry or Alesis HD24XR or RADAR Nyquist or S-Nyquist instead have been nicer with the DIDGI 'whatever platform' that their proprietary software must see to even boot up than charging an addtional $2500-$4500 for crap preamps included in the public screwing?
I totally concur. $3K-$3.5K tops should have been the market price and even I, the great DIGI HATER might have come in and taken a swim and apologoized publicly had it all worked out to integrate what I've already invested in in Native.
Y'know what? Russ Long's review today @
Apogee Symphony Recording System, by Russ Long
and I really like his closing comments:
"I'm a long time Pro Tools user and, quite frankly, I haven't considered switching platforms…until now. Logic Pro 7.2 coupled with the Symphony System is reasonably priced for any audio professional and it has no major faults that I can find. Apple's Final Cut Pro has literally swiped Avid's golden crown of film and video editing over the last few years, and now it appears that Logic Pro teamed with the Apogee Symphony System could make it a double play. The Symphony System paired with with Logic (or Cubase, or Digital Performer, etc.) matches the performance and surpasses the audio quality of Pro Tools|HD, while cutting the price virtually in half. Anyone in the market for a high-end DAW should give the Symphony System top consideration."
I think I'm gonna buy a Symphony system instead with a Jazz Mutant DEXTER DIGITAL AUDIO WORKSTATION controller and a Mercenary 2.6 laptop with 32 I/O AD-DA channels of 16X and tout around with my laptop and briefcace DAW and keep on native with Logic and Nuendo and UAD and all the other great stuff out there. I hope Symphony-Logic 8 buries you, hey, but don't take it personally ... it's just business.
As a wise friend said to me back in the Vietnam era days ...
"War is hell ... but peace is a motherfvvker!"
Have a nice day fuuck
~skygod~