I'm a member of a media group called The Tape-beatles.
<http://soli.inav.net/~psrf>
We produced much of our latest CD using my 2400 with an external hard drive.
In fact, I bought the machine specifically for its travel-friendliness. You
see, one of our members lives in Prague, and we decided to produce many of
the tracks there. I had originally planned to ship over my 7300 -- but when
I saw J and R was selling new 2400s for $1500, I ordered one. A little bit
of playing with it made me realize that I could do nearly everything I
needed to do at the time on the 2400, considerably lightening my load.
We don't use anything really high end for software: Deck, SoundHack and
SoundEdit for real basic stuff. I am able to do 12 tracks in Deck of real
time playback nondestructive editing. If I make heavy use of effects, I have
to use fewer tracks. The 2400 handles it all with aplomb. Recognizing that
the noisy headphone jack doesn't really affect the actual sound files means
this isn't much of a limitation. If you're serious about the sound, burn a
cd and listen to it on a good stereo -- you'd do that anyway, right?
I have since sold my 7300 and haven't looked back. I do graphics, too,
however, so I miss having a big millions-of-colors monitor. So if/when
cardbus is enabled, I will get a road rocket and an external monitor, and
then I'll feel like I'll have a complete system.
I feel like for $1500 (plus $109 for a 64mb ram chip) I got an amazing
value.
---
Lloyd Dunn
Telemedicine Resource Center
208 HLHS // University of Iowa // 319 353 3022
http://telemed.medicine.uiowa.edu/
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> From: Andrew Carlson
> Reply To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Monday, August 2, 1999 21:32
> To: Multiple recipients of DuoList
> Subject: [Duo] Music and Audio
>
> On the subject of audio, I'd like to take an informal poll and see how
> many
> of us are musicians, producers, etc. and are using the 2400 for our work.
> I
> am curious to know what hardware/software setups are being used and
> problems
> and solutions have been discovered.
>
> I bought the 2400 primarily to do live work with a musical duo with
> backing
> sequences using Vision 3.5.6. I'm still in the process of putting together
> my sequences and rehearsing but would like to use the 2400 to produce a
> demo. It wasn't till well after I bought it that I discovered the inherent
> noise from the audio out. Any solutions or workarounds out there? I have
> dumped some stuff from DAT onto the machine and back out onto tape without
> noticing the squawking that I hear when hooking it up to some speakers or
> headphones.
>
> Any thoughts, ideas or comments from anyone are greatly appreciated.
>
> Andy
>
>
> >
> > i regularly use my 2400 to master audio works (multichannel - sometimes
> up
> > to 8 (with vst effects) ) from an external 4gB hd/CDWR burner unit i
> made..
> > works fine! and burning is 4x mostly.. one thing it doesn't want to do
> is
> > burn anything with cross fades.. ie in adaptec jam i have to render the
> > image BEFORE i can burn.
> >
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