Actually, there's voice feedback that they've worked on over a couple of years, apparently. I was almost one of the testers and it literally came down to a choice between the RADAR and Pro Tools while a RADAR demo system was being loaded onto a truck to be delivered to the studio. Anyway, there's still always that option for the future. PT is, of course, a completely different animal and serves a different purpose and transferring sessions from RADAR to Pro Tools continues to be a tedious prospect. Anyway… On May 30, 2010, at 1:49 PM, Bryan Smart wrote:
> In a lot of ways, the Radar should be just accessible out of the box. Not in > terms that it will speak to you, but just for the fact that it has a physical > control for just about every function. It isn't a full DAW, but is mainly > just a multitrack digital recorder. The really popular thing about the Radar > is that, because of all of the physical controls, it is also a magnificent > machine for editing. I don't mean a cut and paste here and there, but, if you > have a project where you must slice it up in to many tiny pieces, and > reassemble all of those pieces in a different way, or manually edit timing > mistakes, and you've memorized all of the shortcut commands, then you can > edit at a speed that someone working with a mouse would never be able to > match. Oh, if only there were a full DAW like that. However, the mind > boggling amount of keyboard-based editing support from Pro Tools isn't too > far away from that goal. Pro Tools keyboard support is way deeper than even > highly keyboard-focused DAWs like Sonar and Logic. > > Bryan > > -----Original Message----- > From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > [mailto:macvisionar...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Slau Halatyn > Sent: Friday, May 28, 2010 1:33 PM > To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > Subject: Re: any news on pro tools? > > Hi Frank, > > Yes, from what I understand, IZ Technologies has worked with a few blind > individuals to make the RADAR accessible. For those who don't know, the RADAR > was conceived as a replacement for analog multitrack recorders. It is widely > regarded in the audio industry as being perhaps the best sounding digital > recorder in terms of it's analog to digital conversion. You can contact them > directly to get more information regarding accessibility. > > HTH > > Slau > > On May 28, 2010, at 12:35 PM, Frank Carmickle wrote: > >> Hi Slau >> >> On May 28, 2010, at 11:21 AM, Slau Halatyn wrote: >> >>> Hey Frank, >>> >>> I had the same Otari remote. Physical switches are nice but not really >>> practical these days unless you're tracking to a RADAR which, by the way, >>> is accessible. >>> >> I was going to respond to you off list about this but I thought maybe >> someone else might want to know about this as well. I am very interested in >> accessibility of the radar. I have looked around on the web on many >> occasions and have found nothing. Please let me know how I can find out >> more. >> >>> Anyway, when tracking live bands, one would simply arm all the tracks with >>> one keyboard command so it's not really an issue. Further, a control >>> surface would simplify things to a large degree, for what it's worth. >>> >> One keyboard command works for me. >> >>> Level metering is via a numeric value that can toggle between no peak hold, >>> 3 second peak hold and infinite peak hold with a clip indicator that can be >>> persistent if desired. >>> >> Very good. >> >> Thanks again >> --FC >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
