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Pro Tools Mix Owners - Here's Your Chance to Move to PT 6.7!
With the recent release of Pro Tools 6.7, Digidesign has made a serious jump forward in MIDI implementation! The bad news? It won't work for Pro Tools|24 Mix systems! The good news? Digidesign is looking out for Mix system owners! For a limited time, registered owners of a Pro Tools|24 or Pro Tools|24 MIX system can exchange their system for a Pro Tools|HD 2 Accel or Pro Tools|HD 3 Accel system and save an additional $2,000 off the regular Hardware Exchange list prices; or they can exchange for a Pro Tools|HD 1 and save an additional $1,500! Along with the Pro Tools|HD system of choice, all hardware exchanges will include a respective Pro Tools|HDpack 6.0 plug-in bundle for free: seven plug-ins with Pro Tools|HD 1 (a $1,952 US value), fourteen plug-ins with Pro Tools|HD 2 Accel (a $4,830 US value), and twenty-four plug-ins with Pro Tools|HD 3 Accel (a $8,650 US value). Call us at 1-800-222-4700 for information about upgrading your Mix system to HD and Pro Tools 6.7!
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In a general sense digital refers to information or data that is stored or communicated as a sequence of discrete values, rather than some scale across a continual set of values (analog). A digital system may use any (or several) of many different numbering schemes, including decimal (base 10), octal (base 8), and hexadecimal (base 16), but for the most part we associate the binary (base 2) numbering system with digital as it is the most commonly used numbering system in digital hardware such as computers and other logic based systems.
For our purposes, digital refers to the representation of a varying physical property such as sound or light waves (as in digital audio or video), by means of a series of numerical values (in binary, ones and zeroes). These digits are grouped together in "words" to represent parts (intervals) of the complex character of the audio or video material.
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| The Yamaha 01X and MOTU's Digital Performer. |
Q: "Can I use my Yamaha 01X with DP4, both as an audio interface and control surface?"
A: Yes! In fact, the 01X also works as a control surface for Cubase, Nuendo, Logic, SONAR and most other applications that support Mackie Control mode. It just requires a little setup effort utilizing the 01X itself, the mLAN Auto Connector application that came with it, Mac OS X Audio MIDI Setup (which you can access from within DP4) and the Control Surface Setup from DP4's Setup menu. Here's the process:
- Attach the 01X interface to your computer, and then launch mLAN Auto Connector.
- Under the Device menu, "connect" the 01X by clicking and dragging.
- At this time it's wise to open the Preferences menu to note the sample rate. It defaults to 48kHz but can function at 44.1, 48, 88.2, and 96kHz. If you change this setting you need to remember to change it in Audio MIDI Setup as well should you want to use the interface for another application such as iTunes.
- On the 01X itself, open the Utility menu and change the clock source to AUTO-CLOCK.
- To use the Control Surface capability with DP4, under the 01X's Utility menu press the Remote knob and select Digital Performer as your Remote.
- Now you need to launch Audio MIDI Setup to create a device to connect to the 01X. Choosing an 01V works fine.
- In DP4's Setup menu, open Control Surface Setup and select Mackie Control.
Remember that the audio outputs you are using in DP4 (e.g. mLAN Stream 1-2) need to have their faders raised on the 01X as well.
Yamaha offers plenty of support for the 01X and mLAN devices online, and MOTU recommends consulting these forums if you experience problems with this interface and DP. A good starting point is www.01XRay.com. |
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