[DM-MUG] audio production

[Bryan Baker]

You are correct, that there is a free "lite" version that is able to do 
up to 8 tracks on OS 9. http://digidesign.com/ptfree/ Since JD mailed 
me offline that he's still running 9, that might be a really good place 
to start, but like crack, even though "the first hit's free" in the 
long run Digi's products are the high-end (and from all reports "back 
in the day" I think they subbed their customer relations people from 
Quark) ;-) From the looks of things, they may have been able to bring 
their stuff down to reality a bit, but I'm still shy about them.

For myself, I'm now looking for something that I can use in OSX, 
probably equal Audio/MIDI and that doesn't get in the way creatively - 
at the moment MOTU's looking good to me, but some of that is the fact 
that I cut my teeth on their MIDI products. I still like Deck a lot for 
pure Audio editing, but I'm thinking it's MIDI is too limited for my 
tastes now (plus, it's been so long that I'll be pretty much buying 
new). I may look into the newest version of Metro, since I have used 
that, but it keeps jumping from publisher to publisher.

On Nov 10, 2003, at 12:45 AM, Matt W wrote:
> Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't Pro Tools free? I mean, isn't there 
> a free, non-supported version, like Eudora Light?
> On Sunday, November 9, 2003, at 12:01  PM, Bryan Baker wrote:
>> It depends on many things. I'm about to start thinking about this 
>> again myself, so let me walk you through the options I know about.
>>         Digidesign ProTools			Expensive, industry standard, mainly 
>> audio, limited MIDI I think.

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Bryan Baker
Vice-President
Des Moines Macintosh Users Group
http://www.dmmug.org
vice-president@dmmug.org