Well I have to say that Digidesign ruled the AES exibits with Protools. There was constantly a crowd around their booth with a captivated audience. Still no improvement on their CD assembly of tracks, outside of "Master List". They recommended another software solution on the MAC side that I was unfamiliar with. I said, I prefer the CD Architect/Vegas solution of being able to put track ID's on the timeline and burning straight to CD. A big question mark appeared on their face of "Vegas? Sonic Foundry who?"
Cakewalk's Sonar lead the pack on the PC side. Although, the improvements that stuck out to me the most, was that all their update features started to look a whole lot like Sonic Foundry's product line. They boasted about their "ACID" style of loop functionality. Their new editing features and user interface looked ALOT like Vegas.
After a couple of days of talking to many software vendors and hardware control surface manufacturers at the show, I had that feeling as many Vegas users do. Everytime I mentioned that I was an avid Vegas user, the big question mark always popped up. "Vegas? what is that?" So even the competition hardware developers, and software plugin developers don't even seem to recognize Vegas. The guys from Samplitude, where showing me an "event only" proceesing of effects features and boasted that they are the only software option that currently offers this option. My comment....."well it looks a lot like the same way Vegas is able to do this"......again..."really?...who's Vegas?" I got the same question mark from Digidesign, Waves, TC Works and Steinberg.
Sonic Foundry's presence at this convention was really missed. After all, anyone who is anyone is usually at this convention. Even Cool Edit Pro had a good display at this show and after attending their demo, it showed me how it pales in comparison to Vegas in many aspects. Steinberg was only demoing the new Nuendo 2.0 and showed nothing on the new Cubase SX. This was the first time I actually got to touch Nuendo, since I think they still don't have a Demo to release. It's the same editing style as Cubase, so that was enough to turn my stomach.
I believe Dave Chaimson of Sonic Foundry's marketing department attended the show. I'm hoping that was to see where Sonic Foundry needs to be for Vegas's image. If Vegas 4 implements many of the new Acid 4.0 features and get's hardware control surface support and attends these types of shows regularly then I think Vegas could be the star attraction and alot of us Vegas users wouldn't have to see that dazed stare with the question mark, when we mention we use Vegas for our audio needs.
Regards,
Red
Cakewalk's Sonar lead the pack on the PC side. Although, the improvements that stuck out to me the most, was that all their update features started to look a whole lot like Sonic Foundry's product line. They boasted about their "ACID" style of loop functionality. Their new editing features and user interface looked ALOT like Vegas.
After a couple of days of talking to many software vendors and hardware control surface manufacturers at the show, I had that feeling as many Vegas users do. Everytime I mentioned that I was an avid Vegas user, the big question mark always popped up. "Vegas? what is that?" So even the competition hardware developers, and software plugin developers don't even seem to recognize Vegas. The guys from Samplitude, where showing me an "event only" proceesing of effects features and boasted that they are the only software option that currently offers this option. My comment....."well it looks a lot like the same way Vegas is able to do this"......again..."really?...who's Vegas?" I got the same question mark from Digidesign, Waves, TC Works and Steinberg.
Sonic Foundry's presence at this convention was really missed. After all, anyone who is anyone is usually at this convention. Even Cool Edit Pro had a good display at this show and after attending their demo, it showed me how it pales in comparison to Vegas in many aspects. Steinberg was only demoing the new Nuendo 2.0 and showed nothing on the new Cubase SX. This was the first time I actually got to touch Nuendo, since I think they still don't have a Demo to release. It's the same editing style as Cubase, so that was enough to turn my stomach.
I believe Dave Chaimson of Sonic Foundry's marketing department attended the show. I'm hoping that was to see where Sonic Foundry needs to be for Vegas's image. If Vegas 4 implements many of the new Acid 4.0 features and get's hardware control surface support and attends these types of shows regularly then I think Vegas could be the star attraction and alot of us Vegas users wouldn't have to see that dazed stare with the question mark, when we mention we use Vegas for our audio needs.
Regards,
Red