New in stock at Sweetwater Sound: Is DAT dead? We don’t think so, but there are some new products coming out that make one really question if he/she needs a DAT machine. We just received our first batch of the amazing new StartREC from Microboards. StartREC is the first Digital Audio Editing System combined with multidrive CD Recordable duplication capability designed specifically for the Audio Professional. Retail pricing starts at $3195.
If you’ve been wanting to know what those .smi, .scr, and .rm file extensions you encounter on the Web are, you’ll be happy to know that Apple has posted a very helpful file name extension glossary on their support site. More importantly, for Mac users, they also provide information on how to deal with each of them.
Our Digidesign demo tour will be rolling into Columbus, Ohio on November 2. The current tour features a look at Pro Tools 5 software and the new Digi001 host based system. Pro Tools Mix and the Pro Control are part of the demo as well. Show details can be found at the Events section of our Web site.