MOTU Track 16 Review “I Love It”

I love the MOTU Track 16 the below first file is with the Track 16 into my MBP (Mac Book Pro) running OS 10.7.4 to Pro Tools 9.0.6 and I used the API plugins from Waves. Mic used was the DPA 4099. The one thing that I did do was a fresh restart and power up on the Track 16 and now there’s no hiss or noise in any of the signals. The second track is with my (MP) Mac Pro OS 10.6.7 and Pro Tools 9.0.6 running on fire wire. The Motu Cue Mix sounds great too and I will be using it when I head out to CA later in the month to use as my live set up. Im going to try using the MIDI in line with my Roland GI-20 Interface to use to trigger synth sounds such as Spectrasonics Omnisphere.

Update:
After a week of use. 8.7.12 I have to say this really is one great pice of gear. I have been using the MOTU Track 16 with Cue Mix and for Live its awesome. I have in mic channel one my DPA 4099 G mic and in Chanel 2 from the RMC Pickups and Poly-Drive II to the Fishman Aura Spectrum DI then in to the input for ZERO (0) Latency with EQ and Reverb, Then I run Pro Tools 9.0.6 and use Omnisphere and Stylus RMX and run them thorough the MOTU Track 16 and out to my main monitors for an amazingly great live sounding set up.

What some of my friends are saying about the MOTU Track 16 after listing to the finished result:
Vic
I think you have found a winner
Sounds great very clean and I think there is a tad.of high end detail not
Heard since you had the ensemble
(Silver Sound Taz)
Hello Victor,
Sounds lovely. I was more taken by the sound of the guitar…which tells me
the quality is great.
(Mike)
Sounds excellent! I would not have guessed that is was recorded on such a small device.
Peace
(Jay S)

The folks at Sweetwater were great in helping me get the MOTU Track 16 Mark Magdich 1800-222-4700×1265 and the flex pay makes it easier on the wallet.

Track 16 in Pro Tools I received my MOTU Track 16 it looks nice. I am using it with my 2011 MBP (Mac Book Pro 13) and Mac Pro. I found the install to be a little tricky in that the cd did not have the drivers that were needed so the Track 16 would be recognized. After about 10 min I was able to get the MBP to recognize the Track 16. I found that using Fire wire to hook up the Track 16 works on both computers but while using buss power on MBP it seems that the mic and line in are a bit nosey, may be the drivers I have a tech support question in the cue. I am waiting a bit before I conclude my opinion. Check back later.

Plugins for Live Playing

A gift from my buddy Taz Sellers, the SSL Channel Strip, CLA-2A Compression and BBE D82 Sonic Maximizer with Lexicion Hall Verb running on my MacBook Pro. I’m using the Apogee One as my interface with either the LR Baggs pickup or my DPA 4099G mic then out to two QSC K8 speakers for live playing.

Christina

Apogee One, DPA 4099, DeVoe Negra, MacBook Pro, Pro Tools 9.5 and QSC K’s

Ive been wondering if there would be a way that I would be able to play live and travel with just my guitar case and a laptop.  I think the answer is yes.  I have been using the Apogee One a very small (size of iPhone) interface that allows me to hook up the DPA 4099G mic that clips onto my DeVoe (phantom power supplied from Apogee One) the Apogee One hooks up to my MacBook Pro with USB 2 and then I run either Pro Tools 9.5 which to my ears sounds better than Logic or Main Stage (However Logic and Main Stage do sound ok just not as smoth or more bright inho).  Then in Pro Tools I am using three tracks on for the Gutiar Mic, then two different drum programs Strike and Boom.  Then off the one I have a stereo line out to to XLR connectors that run to the QSC K8’s.  The sound is fantastic I do use the BBE sonic max plug in for my main mix as well. 

Apogee One with Pro Tools 9

Im trying out Apogee’s One with Pro Tools 9 Live running on my Mac Boook Pro. So far so good. I have one clip using  the internal mic on the One

Hears what is sounds like with Pro Tools

Ocean (Original Song)

Yannaki Arrizza and I played at his home studio Zen, we were playing and I turned on the record app FiRe for the iPhone. Later I mixed the song in Pro Tools 9 and added ocean sounds and strings. This was an original jam session caught in the moment.

Pro Tools 9 is up and running a PRS

We downloaded the Pro Tools Cross grade from Advid and PT9 is up and running.

Pro Tools 8.0.3 up and running on OS 10.6.3 at Palm Recording Studio

Well it took two weeks to figure out that the Mac Pro in our studio had some ram acting strange. we did not need a new Logic Board. We put a new HD 500gig 7200Rpm as the HD main. created all new files and now have a rock solid system.

AC-7 DAW Control Surface v.2.0

Was talking with Taz today about the new iPad and he shared with ne this new program AC-7 DAW Control Surface. I downloaded it from iTunes for the iPhone 4.99. Looks like a great app will write more later.

Pro Tools 8.0.3 Error 6097 and just shuts down or freezes

Had some problems thus week in Pro Tools after I did the Spectronics updates for Trillion and Omnisphere. was getting error codes 6097 increase buffer/ lost communication with host. So Taz and I thought keys try a uninstall and reinstall using the download availabe to registered users of Pro Toos at Avid’s web page. Downloaded the file and did the uninstall and reinstal. So far looks good will check in an hour and post what I find out over the next two days.

Update: 2.27.10 Did not work less than one hour problem came back and froze the computer.

**UPDATE** 3.7.10Looks like the new Line 6 midi driver really messes up Pro Tools. I was using the Line 6 Pod XT Pro and did have it hooked up to the computer via midi with a usb cable and as soon as I turned the Line 6 Pod XT Pro on the system would crash. Uninstalled the new update and Pro Tools is working great. Have done two full days of recoding with no issues.

Pro Tools v8.0.3 vs Logic Pro 9 sound off

01 DeVoe Pro Tools 8.0.3 vs Logic Pro 9 Sound off by v2or

DeVoe Logic Pro 9 vs Pro To by v2or

Pro Tools 8.0.3 Yeah Snow Leopard is hear “Im Lovin it”

Im currently downloading  8.0.3 Yeah.  All downloaded and works great.  Ahh I love Pro Tools 8.0.3

Studio & Broadcast Sound Best New Studio Product Avid Digidesign for Pro Tools 8

Having tried and owning a few of  the other DAW (Digital Audio Workstations) software packages for recording Logic v6-9 and Cake Walk, Digital Performer, and Garage Band and a few others I think personally IMHO that Pro Tools 8 is just the best so far.  Very easy to use, sounds great and captures audio very well.  I cant really ever see going back to Logic.  For me the Logical choice is Pro Tools 8.  Im glad to see that they won the Audio Pro Industry Excellence Award 09.

Pro Tools Updated to 8.0.1

Updated Pro Tools 8.0 to 8.0.1 hope with the new updates it will work with Snow Leopard.

The Lost Ones

Dont Know Sonoma

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My New Console Icon & Victor

Soft Days in San Sabino Catherdral

I used a patch from TL Space Convolution Reberb ” San Sabino Catherdral” hear is the picture of the plug in and the catherdral. I have also put a clip of the pice that I recorded in my office. click hear to listen to the pice.
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Digidesign’s Official Pro Tools 101 Courseware

Ordered a copy of this from Amazon. I did not see it listed on Digidesigns web page or store. I am hoping to be able to learn Pro Tools and take the 101 test certification some time this summer. I really like Pro Tools 8 and have not used Logic Pro in a few months.
Wow that came quick, got it today just ordered it yesterday and it was hear by 11:00am. Started reading it and am looking forward to understanding Pro Tools 8.

Product Description
Digidesign’s Official Pro Tools 101 Courseware takes a comprehensive approach to learning the fundamentals of Pro Tools|HD®, Pro Tools LE®, or Pro Tools M-Powered™ systems. Now updated for Pro Tools 8 software, this new edition from the definitive authority on Pro Tools covers everything you need to know to complete a Pro Tools project. Learn to build sessions that include multitrack recordings of live instruments, MIDI sequences, software synthesizers, and virtual instruments. Through hands-on tutorials, develop essential techniques for recording, editing, and mixing. The included DVD-ROM offers tutorial files and videos, additional documentation, and Pro Tools sessions to accompany the projects in the text. Developed as the foundation course of the official Digidesign Training and Education program, the guide can be used to learn on your own or to pursue formal Pro Tools certification through a Digidesign-authorized school. Join the ranks of audio professionals around the world as you unleash the creative power of your Pro Tools system.

About the Author
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SPECTRASONICS RMX 1.7 Update

A pic of the update in Logic Pro 8, Works great and the ablility to switch time signatures on the fly is great. I also like the grove lock with play with it more later today in the studio.

Waves Dorrough Metters

Dorrough Electronics designs and manufactures precision audio and video monitoring devices. For over 20 years, Dorrough has pioneered new technologies in audio signal processing and monitoring for the broadcast, motion picture, and recording industries.

Dorrough Electronics founder Mike Dorrough grew up with a love for radio and an insatiable desire to understand how sound devices worked. In the early 1960’s, Mike worked as a sound mixer for a recording company owned by radio icon Casey Kasem and Bob Hudson. During that period, he devised a revolutionary Multi-band (or “Discriminate”) Audio Processing system. By achieving optimum relationships between frequency, time, and amplitude in the complex waveform, Discriminate Audio Processing provided greater loudness with no reduction in fidelity.

The initial success of Discriminate Audio Processing led Mike to a position with Motown and later to RCA Records. Realizing that his system had even greater implications for the broadcast market, in 1965 one of his first Multi-Band Composite Audio Processors was installed at a popular LA radio station.

In 1971, Mike decided to set up his own factory to produce his processors, and launched Dorrough Electronics. Within a few years, a variety of terms widely used in the audio field today like “Multi-band Processing,” “Psycho-Acoustics,” “Relative Audio-Power to Peak Amplitude,” and “Sound-Density” would either be coined or popularized by Dorrough, to describe the effects and benefits of the Discriminate Audio Processor.

Dorrough realized that the perceived loudness of sound is a mathematical function of time and amplitude, and the Dorrough Loudness Monitors grew directly out of the Discriminate Audio Processor. Using patented technology developed to give broadcast and recording engineers a true indication of loudness as perceived by the human ear, Dorrough Loudness Monitors graphically display audio power. Because Average and Peak readings are based on a real-time waveform analysis, the degree of processing, compression, and even distortion are indicated by the relationship between the average and peak indicators.

For his many contributions to world of professional audio, in 2000, Dorrough was honored with a Technical Achievement Award from the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences.

The patented Dorrough Ballistic is based on the mathematics intrinsic to audio waveforms. The average integrates amplitudes in the context of time, for a true reading of audio power that satisfies both ear and machine. Simultaneously, users are provided with a real time peak, which picks up destructive “burst anomalies” the ear might miss, but that are all too noticeable to recording devices.

The mathematical cohesion between Peak and Average also provides users with a unique window into qualitative aspects of the sounds they are recording. By observing the relationship (gap) between the Peak and Average displays, the user can observe graphically the effects of processing, compression, and even detect distortion. While traditional VU meters are useful for determining average sound levels, and PPM meters are known for their ability to catch fast transient peaks, neither provides both average and peak level displays, which are needed to get an indication of overall program loudness.

Dorrough Meters are fully compatible with AES/EBU standards.

Tony Maserati

Waves Dorrough Stereo Native

I love this plug in the meters are fantastic.

2009 Pro Tools Development Partners Catalog Now Available Just ordered mine

Since switching to Pro Tools 8 from Logic Pro I have really liked the simplicity of use with Pro Tools. I like the third party plug ins and while it takes a bit of getting used to use iLok and setting things up once you do you can really tailor your system to your likes and budget. I also like how you can build as you go. Im sure I will like looking at this catalog.
Discover and learn about hundreds of exciting and innovative third-party products that can greatly enhance your creativity with Digidesign’s line of products and boost your efficiency.

This beautifully-designed book provides insight to the latest virtual instruments and effects plug-ins, creativity applications, and productivity tools available from many of the best audio innovators in the industry. You’ll also find studio furniture, rack enclosures, hard drives, and accessories to customize your studio, plus some great educational resources.

McDSP Revolver Impulse Reverb come to Palm Recording Studio

I have a few favorite reverbs and this one from McDSP  Revolver is one of them.  I also really like TL Space, and Waves Renaissance Reverb  and True Reverb.  I like how easy and adjustable the  Revolver is.  The sound sample library is fantastic.  I use the reverbs that I have mentioned  with Pro Tools 8 LE.

Revolver provides the most compelling impulse library to date, with hundreds of sounds from rare holy grail out of production reverbs and acoustic spaces.  Additional acoustic spaces and outboard gear can be modeled in a few minutes with Revolver and the Revolver impulse response tools.

Controls for the total reverb time (in percent and RT60 values), wet and dry levels are always displayed.  The remainder of the Revolver plug-in interface is separated into several control pages and views.  Graphical representations of signal flow, impulse response data, EQ responses, and even images of the impulse response source are available

All parameter adjustments are heard immediately, and the outputs are not muted during any control updates.  The user does not need to wait while the reverb is re-rendered.

Features:

Huge library of presets of out of production reverbs, rare vintage reverbs, and acoustic spaces, Total impulse response manipulation,  Pre-delay (positive or negative),  Two-band dedicated reverb EQ,  Three-band routable EQ,  Two sync-able delay lines,  Tools for creating custom impulse response,  Reverb decay crossover network,  Double precision processing,  Low latency,  Mono and stereo versions

Digidesign MBox 2 Mini and iZotope Ozone 4 at Palm Recording Studio

We wanted to have a very quick and easy way to do pod casts and capturing of live seminars and instruments, without have to carry around a big large rig or rack gear.  I have found the with a little eq and using the iZotope Ozone 4 Mastering software the end result is very usable on iTunes.  I will add the clip of my voice hear.  The mic cable was a bit touch so thats the pop and cracks you hear.  The mic used was the Shure KSM 44 mic and Software DAW was Digidesign Pro Tools 8 and iZotope Ozone 4.  and below are two pics.  prospectives-2b

Far Out Labs Pro Remote Lite Edition & Pro Transport Review

I have tried both programs on Pro Tools 8 LE running on a Mac Book Pro 2.33 and it’s working great. You need to instal the app on the iPhone or iPod touch, then download the server progam from Far Out Labs. Instal and run the apps. For me my first verion of Pro Remote Lite, did not work on my apps Pro Tools 8 and Logic Pro 8. However the new version works great. I’ve included two screen shots from my iPhone. I think these are two good apps.

Pro Remote Lite Verson Above and  Transport below.

Velvet Digidesign at Palm Recording Studio

Just used Velvet on a session and it was great to work with and it sounds fantastic as well.
Take a listen hear prospectives just click

MBox Mini Picked on up on eBay

Meet Mbox® 2 Mini — the world’s smallest, most affordable Pro Tools LE™ recording, editing, and mixing system ever. Whether you’re a singer/songwriter who’s new to recording or a seasoned pro on the go, Mbox 2 Mini packs professional features into a robust, ultra compact, easy-to-use audio workstation to record and mix music wherever your inspiration takes you. And with its diminutive size, Mbox 2 Mini literally puts the power of Pro Tools in the palm of your hand.

Like its siblings, Mbox 2, Mbox 2 Pro, and Mbox 2 Micro, Mbox 2 Mini delivers superior sound quality and includes plenty of powerful creation tools for composing, recording, and mixing music. It comes with award-winning, easy-to-use Pro Tools LE™ software, which provides you with many of the same tools the pros use on major recordings and in films. And because Pro Tools is the industry standard, you can use your Mbox 2 Mini-recorded sessions in any Pro Tools-equipped studio around the world

Strike at Palm Recording Studio

Digidesign® Strike™ is a revolutionary instrument plug-in that makes it easy to create professional drum performances in Pro Tools® with uncanny realism and unbelievable human feel. More than just a high-definition drum module, Strike uses real drum performances and provides unprecedented control over every aspect of your virtual drummer’s sound and playing. Select a kit, set the mic placement and leakage, choose a room, and tell your drummer how to play as you adjust the intensity, complexity, timing, groove, dynamics, and more — in real time. This is one instrument you have to see to believe.
Features
Easily produce highly realistic drum performances right within Pro Tools software
Full real-time control of the virtual drummer’s performance, including intensity, complexity, timing, groove, dynamics, and more
Groundbreaking real-time performance engine allows for gradual drum performance dynamics adjustments without the typical machine gun effect or audible velocity layer switching
Choose from five high-definition drum kits, each featuring up to 12 instruments per kit and up to 300 samples per instrument
Includes over 20 GB of 24-bit audio stored in just 5 GB of space via proprietary lossless compression