Waves Ren EQ and ProControl??

[dbakker]

I just heard back from Waves tech support today and their message to me was:

"At this time, we do not support Pro Control functions. We have no information on future implementation of it."

So in case anyone out there is researching a ProControl purchase, keep this in mind.

Disappointing.

[George Cumbee]

Can everyone say...

"Bite the hand that feeds you"

George

[Jules]

How about a word from our Pro Control guy at Digi? Care to come in on this one?
Also a month or two on, how's things going with our edit wheel functionality? Any developments there?
Thank you.
Jules

[This message has been edited by Jules (edited March 04, 2000).]

[gk]

Your guy from Digi here,

You're right, Jules, it is up to the third party developers to map their plug-ins to ProControl. We provide them with tables on where things will show up and they then write up a page table to map the plug-in. It's the way the third party stuff has always been. I beta tested for Waves as well as several others and have complained about this several times with no result. Page tables are no big deal, I've written several since I came to Digi in January. It's a matter of making it a priority, I guess.

As for the jog wheel ballistics and faders going offline intermittently, those are fixed in 5.0.1 as well as a couple of other things.

-Gannon Kashiwa
ProControl Team

[Jules]

I will take that smooth with the rough.
Cheers Gannon,
Jules

[dbakker]

Thanks for all the replies (especially digi).
Yes, clearly Waves is the culprit here.
For what it's worth, I also have MacDSP filter bank, and it maps flawlessly to the PC DSP edit section. Every single software control can be found.
48bit math, sounds excellent. I've stopped using the RenEQ because of this.
Dave.

[John McDaniel]

Here's my version of the Waves vs. ProControl story through many phone calls and emails. I started pressuring Waves a year ago on the DSP section implementation issue.

Waves: "We don't have a ProControl for testing."

Digi: "All developers get a spreadsheet/grid for programming for the ProControl; they don't need to have one."

Waves: "Well, uh..."

Digi: "We'll contact Waves about the issue."

Me: "If I can get you a ProControl for testing will you get the DSP section together."

Waves: "Well, uh.... We're really busy trying to straighten out the DSP Manager mess."

Digi: "We can't control our 3rd party designers."

Waves: "Uhh... we're still trying to straighten out the DSP Manager debacle. As soon as that's over we'll fix the DSP display on the ProControl. We know it's whacked."

And now it's: "We don't support the ProControl?" GMAFB. I'm goin' shoppin' First stop: Metric Halo.

later, j mcd.

[Will Russell]

I too was initially ****** about the poor RenEQ implememtation on the PC. I have found however that the ability to grab EQ points with the mouse etc is a great way to use this EQ, and probably quicker that the PC could ever be! The RenEQ interface was definatly designed for mousing. I wish all EQs worked this way!

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Will Russell
Electric Wilburland Studio
http://www.wilburland.com

[theazone]

To add insult to injury did you notice when you have the REN EQ on screen the TAB function in the edit window is exclusive to the EQ and not the next cue,sync point, fade or cut.

rg

[Will Russell]

Yup. That one's a drag. The numeric keypad defaults to the waves window as well. Been burned several times when I though i was using the key pad in classic mode to go to a locate point and changed my Q instead!

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Will Russell
Electric Wilburland Studio
http://www.wilburland.com