ProTools M-Powered, Guitar Center and Pace iLok

[FFTT]

Digi's time may come as computers become faster and even more powerful.
Interface cards using PCI-Express will also greatly improve sound quality and hopefully reduce latency to historic lows.

The cost to produce high quality AD/DA converters will also come way down.

This means that there will be much less need for outboard CPU processing to achive exceptional results. The days of the $7995.00 HD Accel card are therefore numbered.
I'm sure Digi would still be charging $800.00 for a CD burner if they could
get away with it.

Apogee and UAD are just two examples of exceptions to the rule and others will follow.

I also think the effective life of Pace iLok will be short lived simply because they have challenged the unruly masses.

Universal Binary applications may also make it more difficult for these extreme measure to remain effective.

This is why making even the best software affordable is essential to survival.

A record company may invest $500,000+ launching a new artist, but the
songs still only sell for $1.00 each.
What they don't recoup in record sales, they make back in merchandizing.

If the artist is good, the record company still makes a profit.

If Digi sold ProTools LE/ M-Powered for $99.00, they would sell many, MANY millions of copies all over the world.

If they could stay in the black on base system sales, then licensing of plugins, training materials and accessories would bring in the rest.

I'm sure Apple spends considerably more on R&D than Digi, but they still
manage to sell their OS for $139.00 many times over.

 

[faintember]

Dang, sorry to hear about the problems FFTT.
I used to love PT on OS 9, but since the slow translation to OS X, and the quality of their hardware i have given up on PT. Now its Cubase at home and Logic or Cubase at uni.

Honestly, from what you have said you should be fine with any of the DAWs out there. DP looks great, but my Ti PB laughs at trying to run it. Maybe i will move to DP after i get a MacbookPro. I am fairly happy with Logic and Cubase as each has its own drawbacks. Pick a program and go with it. The learning curve for all the DAWs is somewhat steep, but not that bad. That said i am not coming from a tape/analog background.

I know that the whole piracy of audio programs is a big deal, but the companies need to understand that $1000 for a DAW does not cut it for a student. That is why i have as of recently decided to stop supporting any software company that does not offer a educational discount. It just ticks me off. The prices of this software, regardless of complexity, needs to come down IMHO, or the "lite" versions need to be pumped up a little bit.

 

[airkarol]

Dang, sorry to hear about the problems FFTT.
I used to love PT on OS 9, but since the slow translation to OS X, and the quality of their hardware i have given up on PT. Now its Cubase at home and Logic or Cubase at uni.

Honestly, from what you have said you should be fine with any of the DAWs out there. DP looks great, but my Ti PB laughs at trying to run it. Maybe i will move to DP after i get a MacbookPro. I am fairly happy with Logic and Cubase as each has its own drawbacks. Pick a program and go with it. The learning curve for all the DAWs is somewhat steep, but not that bad. That said i am not coming from a tape/analog background.

I know that the whole piracy of audio programs is a big deal, but the companies need to understand that $1000 for a DAW does not cut it for a student. That is why i have as of recently decided to stop supporting any software company that does not offer a educational discount. It just ticks me off. The prices of this software, regardless of complexity, needs to come down IMHO, or the "lite" versions need to be pumped up a little bit.

I aggree about the education discounts. That is one of the reasons why I switched to Mac. I got a discount on Pro Tools, and my interface.

Also, Digi now has a release time for the UB software. They said sometime in May

 

[FFTT]

I finally recieved my M-Powered 7 CD from Digi.

Early this morning 2:30 I couldn't sleep, so I spent 2 1/2 hours trying to get M-Powered 7 to install completely.
After restart I got the error message saying that the app found another DAE prefs file when trying to install DAE in the Library DAE prefs.

2 hours later I had deep scrubbed every freeking Digi and Pace ilok file from anywhere
on my system with File Buddy and the app still kept coming up with the same error message
after I " Clean Uninstalled" and RE-Installed the application for about the 10th time.
Finally, late for work, I remembered something being mentioned about
FileVault.

Apparently Digi doesn't like it when the user encrypts their "personal" Home folder.

So anyway, a while later my Home folder was decrypted again and
M-Powered FINALLY installed all the way.

So it ended up taking a week and an upgrade and decrypting my "personal" Home folder to install a highly proprietary $200.00 poor man's DAW application.

Too tired to even think about messing with it any more tonight.

 

[night0ne]

im sorry but i think that pro tools worth all the penny you spend on it, its A LOT better than cubase nuendo and other sequencer you have on the market, all things you can't do on cubase or orther sequencer you can do it on pro tools.. and loookin at ur threads if you already spend money on a dual g5 u probably can spend money on a pro tools or just buy a digi 002 or a mbox, pro tools LE come free with.
peace

 

[Edge100]

im sorry but i think that pro tools worth all the penny you spend on it, its A LOT better than cubase nuendo and other sequencer you have on the market, all things you can't do on cubase or orther sequencer you can do it on pro tools.. and loookin at ur threads if you already spend money on a dual g5 u probably can spend money on a pro tools or just buy a digi 002 or a mbox, pro tools LE come free with.
peace

Tell me one thing you can do in ProTools LE (not HD) that you can't do in Logic, Cubase, or Digital Performer.

I still say you'd be better off with an 828mkII and Logic Express vs. the 002 Rack and PT LE. Less money, more features.

Don't even get me started on the total rip-off that is the 002.

A nice HD|3 system would be sweet, though.

 

[zimv20]

Tell me one thing you can do in ProTools LE (not HD) that you can't do in Logic, Cubase, or Digital Performer.

it's not always about features. workflow is important, too. for whatever reason, PT is what does it for me. neither DP nor Logic floated my boat (and i'm an old Performer user).

never tried Cubase.