I want to see the same as everyone else - a high-track count, fully featured native/dsp hybrid, with full upgrade path.
I can't work with LE, but I also can't afford a HD rig, we have 4 at work though.
I want digi to do this:
- Full native PT software with multichannel BD etc
- Unlimited audio and midi track counts
- Native and fully delay compensated mixer - ability to run AU, RTAS or VST plug-ins without wrappers, hence total integration of UAD, Duende PCI etc
- Event style volume handles like Nuendo/Cubase/Samplitude - massive deal for me! May as well throw in Nuendo style real-time fades and the envelope/edit options too.
- A single 2U rackmount box that connects via Ethernet or single PCI or Cardbus and provides 24 ch of 96k AES I/O (Digi AD/DA boxes optional) and 8 stereo foldback analogue outputs. The box contains sufficient DSP to run a full 24ch in 24ch out matrix foldback mixer than totally integrates into the standard PT mixer. This foldback mixer provides the ability to run TDM plugins on the rackmount DSP to ensure low latency monitoring and real-time processing during tracking. All must must appear to be transparent to the native mixer, but allow seamless professional monitoring whilst tracking.
- I'd like integrated talkback with remote control and the ability to set dim options and routing on the foldback outputs and also any set of AES outs that feed your DACs and external monitoring chain... Avocet etc
Add 2U rack boxes for more I/O. 2 boxes = 48 I/O and enough DSP to monitor all with sufficient tracking processing. I don't know about you but some good reverb or delay is all I'd need.
Starting price £3k. Additional I/O boxes @ £1.8k
Optional PCI DSP cards that are £1k each and slowly upgrade to full DSP TDM operational power.
These must completely integrate into the native mixer to run the TDM plugins we know and love transparently.
Fully blown system could be as much as a good HD rig, but we can all enter at <£5k. I'd be in.
I want to use your software DIGI but I'm not keen on your hardware limitations, see it's funny, most people said PT was all about the hardware,
for me now, today - it is all about the software. I like it, it gets the job done with minimum of fuss.
Let us chose our I/O and DSP please. I'd commit long term if they did this. Steinberg are shitty and I'm no logic fan. I don't want to buy a mac for DP. Come on Digi, it is time to change it up!
Before SSL do exactly this with Soundscape and Duende... here's hoping.
I'd really like to see the foldback thing nailed, so its as console like as possible. And the fact that it could run on desktop or laptop without additional hardware. This is what the industry needs.
-T