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Re: 002R Is An Upgrade?
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The Radar converters are fantastic, definitely the cream of the crop in the stand alone HD recorder world, however, the HDR's AIO-8 ADDA converters are also extremely good, and widely accepted in the industry. (They are the same as used in the D8B console.) Furthermore, the pre-sale relationship we developed with Mackie has stayed true the course, and infact grew to allow us to become beta testers of other Mackie products, as well as beta versions of upgrades for the HDR, including the HDR Pro OS and the BIOS upgrade, which increases the drive limitation from 32 gb to 120gb. For our participation, we get all this stuff from Mackie for free, a very nice perc indeed. The HDR (and the two MDR's we have for remote recording) have been absolutely rock solid. we've never had 1 minute of lost time in over 3 yrs. The PT rig is for additional tracks, uping our count to 56, and putting the PT name on the inventory. You'd be amazed at the number of clients who come here because we have Protools, and it never gets used except for mixdown. we have 2 i/o fo Apogee converters for the 001, using them for the PT track playback(which are always secondary tracks) and record from the analog console mix buss. this setup also gives us the ability to do editing beyond the HDR (or Radar for that matter) capabilities, which (for either machine) is really glorified cut copy paste, fine for our needs, as we have a vast array of good to high end hardware dynamics and effects processors to select from. The Firedock system allows us to quickly move sessions from one of the MDR drives or the HDR into PT. They sync via MMC/MTC, and lock superbly. while I wouldn't split overheads or a stereo track between the two systems, we've done 2+ hour live shows on the two MDR's, and, using the HDR for one set of 24 and PT for the other, had no audible issues with sync. |
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Yeah, I skipped on the 002 craze and bought a Trak2 and better mics...The 002 and 002R never really interested me...I really have used the hell out of the 001 and it's been really good to me. Sooner or later I'll have to "upgrade" but I'm holding out for a 003...And my hopes and dreams are.....
18 channels of digital connection I dont need not damn digi mic pre's Please...Then I'll upgrade...I swear!
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I wondered when he'd get around to plugging the FireDock.
Gosh, those are some high prices for commodity stuff.
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I'm with you completely, Glenn.
I too felt pressured into the upgrade...a combination of the fear of not having adequate legacy support and not being able to keep up with software. I was unhappy with the price as well, and I too made the big mistake of not researching the 002r independently of the 002. I had accumulated a large amount of high quality plug-ins for OS9/PT5.x that are now useless (of course, I could have spent tons more money to upgrade all those plugs to OSX....more pressure). The only reason I've held on this long is that I am truly comfortable with PT, and I really do like it's interface, but the mounting unhappiness with Digidesign/Avid continues to build. They have for years been forcing the prosumer's hands to try and keep their upper end hardware products valuable. They have consistently denied the LE users software features and performance that is readily availble in comparable DAWs. In some cases, they have even REMOVED features in software updates. The SMPTE time code ruler has always been a major annoyance for me....there is no justifying charging and additional $1000.00 for features that are rountinely available in other DAWs and would also be easily implemented. They also continue to try and force their hardware to retain it's value by making all their prosumer hardware effectively function as "dongles"....ridiculous (I've been thinking about getting an audiomedia III card just to be able to run OS9/PT5). Just about every other platform allows you to use whatever third party hardware and software that you like. Oh yeah...software. Digi has made a habit of keeping their software from truly harnessing multi processor macs, especially plugs. AU and even VST plugs are far more effecient in my experience, and writing these plugs is open to most any knowledgable developer, novice or proffessional, so there are many more available plugs out there. I could go on and on....don't even get me started on MIDI. I really think that Digi/Avid is in real trouble for the future if they don't come around. They dominated the industry for a decade and that is what has kept them in the game this long, but I think their business practices are catching up with them. Avid has done the same crap in the video market, and it has hurt them....can you say Final Cut? In any event, this is all just venting for me. I'm committed to PT for various reasons and I plan to make the best of it. I've always loved the PT software interface and found it very intuitive, so I hope Digi eventually plays nice and starts to get on par with the rest of the market in terms of performance and compatibility. Oohhh...that felt purdy good. thoroughly purged,
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Just thought I'd chime in with my experience. I had the 001 and the AMIII. I traded in the AMIII for the 002R and then sold my 001 and have had no problems whatsoever with it. It sounded better than my 001 and while my system was very solid on the 001 until I added a Powercore card for Logic. Nothing worked right after adding the card, I searched and searched on the net, and finally got to talk to a salesperson who was familiar with the issue. 001+Powercore+0SX=no work. That was what drove me to the 002R, the fact that the Powercore was useless with my 001 (I have an MDD that is not OS9 compatable), and I'm so glad that I did switch. Better converters and Pres, better overall sound, better latency, works with a laptop. It's great working with softsynths which feel like real hardware synths when you play them. I couldn't do that with the 001. Do I want more? Of course I want more. Pads on the inputs, Grace designed Mic pres, SMUX or something similar, Tube emulation on the inputs, Apogee quality converters, 192K, etc. I'll always want more, always, but I think Digi did make a decent upgrade which helps me get my work done.
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