Beautiful product... almost Zen-like. It works simply and
it simply works! I haven't yet unzipped the manual or used
the Help. I just started working and it does what I want!
As easy to use as a normal tape deck, as any multitrack
recorder should be.
What's my gripe? None really, but since this is a newborn
product, I'm curious as to what its parents' (Sonic
Foundry's) hopes and dreams are for it. Here's my dream...
I dream I am able to walk into any big studio of choice,
cut tracks in their live room, copy the session to a CDr or
Jaz and bring them back where I can tweak it to my ears'
content on my own non-billable time and gear. I also dream
of the ability to accept Avid sessions and add an
additional sound track and ship it back out for virtually
instant layback. (I can't imagine I'm the only one that has
such dreams; especially the latter, given the normal time
constraints that sound like "oh, by the way, this spot airs
at the top of tonight's 5:30 News.")
Most of the "big rooms" and people I work with are fairly
entrenched with their 5- or 6-figure Avid and ProTools
systems, both of which use OMF (Open Media Framework) files
for projects. Being an open standard, OMF is also used by
a lot of other (and even more expensive) pro studio systems
as well. It would greatly aid things if session files (A/V
and/or multi-track audio) could be transported to and from
those big systems and my DAW of more modest financial
means. The ADAT sneaker-net thing gets pretty old when one
doesn't (or shouldn't theoretically need to) own an ADAT
themselves.
Prior to purchasing my PC and Event Layla system, I
considered taking the Pro-Tools bait several times. I
couldn't justify sinking that much cash into proprietary
hardware and software with such a poor price/performance
ratio compared with what is available on the Wintel
platform. With the exception of the ProTools port and its
expensive private entrails, there is no other DAW solution
on the PC that has any serious portable-media integration
with the "high end" stuff. The highest-end user that most
if not all PC applications seem to be geared toward is the
pro that takes the whole project from start to finish in
the same studio or collaborates with others that use the
same software.
So, do the Vegas Development/Marketing folks have any
visions to either: 1.) Be the first stable, Windows-based
open-hardware multitrack DAW software to support reading
and writing of OMF, as well as the new Microsoft-sponsored
Advanced Authoring Format (AAF) session files to provide
cross-platform session exchange? ...or 2.) launch a
Microsoft-style "Total World Domination" marketing plan to
render ProTools totally obsolete in the minds of every
artist and client that leaves studio owners no choice but
to equip every control room with a Vegas workstation?
I am really hoping for the first option. (You got everthing
I mentioned before the OMF support nailed!) As long as
Vegas keeps its focus (forget about MIDI sequencing and
notation--that's what Cakewalk, Finale and their kind are
for) and adds full OMF/AAF support as well as some other
requests mentioned in this forum (particularly effects
automation,) that total world domination may just happen on
its own!
--Bob
it simply works! I haven't yet unzipped the manual or used
the Help. I just started working and it does what I want!
As easy to use as a normal tape deck, as any multitrack
recorder should be.
What's my gripe? None really, but since this is a newborn
product, I'm curious as to what its parents' (Sonic
Foundry's) hopes and dreams are for it. Here's my dream...
I dream I am able to walk into any big studio of choice,
cut tracks in their live room, copy the session to a CDr or
Jaz and bring them back where I can tweak it to my ears'
content on my own non-billable time and gear. I also dream
of the ability to accept Avid sessions and add an
additional sound track and ship it back out for virtually
instant layback. (I can't imagine I'm the only one that has
such dreams; especially the latter, given the normal time
constraints that sound like "oh, by the way, this spot airs
at the top of tonight's 5:30 News.")
Most of the "big rooms" and people I work with are fairly
entrenched with their 5- or 6-figure Avid and ProTools
systems, both of which use OMF (Open Media Framework) files
for projects. Being an open standard, OMF is also used by
a lot of other (and even more expensive) pro studio systems
as well. It would greatly aid things if session files (A/V
and/or multi-track audio) could be transported to and from
those big systems and my DAW of more modest financial
means. The ADAT sneaker-net thing gets pretty old when one
doesn't (or shouldn't theoretically need to) own an ADAT
themselves.
Prior to purchasing my PC and Event Layla system, I
considered taking the Pro-Tools bait several times. I
couldn't justify sinking that much cash into proprietary
hardware and software with such a poor price/performance
ratio compared with what is available on the Wintel
platform. With the exception of the ProTools port and its
expensive private entrails, there is no other DAW solution
on the PC that has any serious portable-media integration
with the "high end" stuff. The highest-end user that most
if not all PC applications seem to be geared toward is the
pro that takes the whole project from start to finish in
the same studio or collaborates with others that use the
same software.
So, do the Vegas Development/Marketing folks have any
visions to either: 1.) Be the first stable, Windows-based
open-hardware multitrack DAW software to support reading
and writing of OMF, as well as the new Microsoft-sponsored
Advanced Authoring Format (AAF) session files to provide
cross-platform session exchange? ...or 2.) launch a
Microsoft-style "Total World Domination" marketing plan to
render ProTools totally obsolete in the minds of every
artist and client that leaves studio owners no choice but
to equip every control room with a Vegas workstation?
I am really hoping for the first option. (You got everthing
I mentioned before the OMF support nailed!) As long as
Vegas keeps its focus (forget about MIDI sequencing and
notation--that's what Cakewalk, Finale and their kind are
for) and adds full OMF/AAF support as well as some other
requests mentioned in this forum (particularly effects
automation,) that total world domination may just happen on
its own!
--Bob