No offense taken at all :) It's all good. I use the Apogee Symphony I/O which is a modular system with cards of various configurations. It has Mac-based software which is quite accessible. Most importantly, it sounds great. A few guys I know are also really into Prism converters but I've had no firsthand experience with them.
Best, Slau On Mar 16, 2012, at 6:17 PM, Sonar Switcher wrote: > Slau, sorry if my comment offended you I should have said it's not > practical for me. In my case it takes much longer to hide and group > because I'm usually not editing the same session or tracks which is > why I prefer using the mouse to select only the tracks I need. The > tone of your post sounded like you tooke offense and I didn't mean it > in that way. Chuck, I can promise you it works every time because I've > done it without anybody sighted around and you're correct about the > names. The resize always works for me in Lion 10.7.2 but may have > other results with a different OS. Without reposting a new subject, > can somebody please fill me in on a really good I/O either 8 or 16 > channel? It doesn't have to have mic pre's or anything other than > strict i/o. I'm trying to find something more in the higher end market > that works well with PT. Well, maybe not the 10K end which I've seen > on Google. > > Slau Halatyn wrote: >> Actually, it is quite practical. Any tracks that need to be selected for >> editing are worth grouping, after which, one doesn't have to go through the >> process of reselecting tracks and can enable or disable with keystrokes >> alone. Further, it's possible to additionally hide or show the tracks with >> the same keystrokes—yet another way of working in Pro Tools. >> >> Slau >> >> On Mar 16, 2012, at 4:39 PM, Sonar Switcher wrote: >> >>> david, I had the same problem and Chuck was the one to get it to work. >>> I understand Slau's idea but it's not very practical if you have to >>> move fast. I can have 40 tracks loaded and thanks to Chuck select any >>> of them in seconds for example track 1-6-10-20-36 can be selected >>> while leaving the others untouched without hiding, grouping etc. Use >>> an actual mouse, go to the track table, interact with it, click the >>> mouse or VO spacebar on the first track then just move through the >>> table and command click the actual mouse on each track you want to >>> select. The biggest prob I had at the beginning was not understanding >>> you need a mouse and not VO spacebar for this. Chuck, the answer to >>> not needing sighted help for the gray bar is to use the VO resize >>> window command until you are sure the mouse is always where you need >>> it to be. In my case I've had to resize different ways for different >>> sessions because of too many tracks. Usually I get it in 2 or three >>> tries of resizing. You also need the true mouse to do other things >>> like solo safe and general commands that won't work with VO and mouse >>> modifier keys. >>> >>> David Eagle wrote: >>>> Hi, I have just listened to Kevin's tutorial on ProTools. He talks >>>> about selecting tracks. I am finding it a bit of a challenge. I am in >>>> the tracks table. I can select one track with VO space, but pressing >>>> Shift and semi-colon or Shift and P does not select the next track. >>>> Also, Kevin mentions not being able to select consecutive tracks. He >>>> mentions being able to do this using a control surface but not with >>>> the keyboard. Is there anyway to select - say - track 3, 5 and 7 with >>>> the keyboard. It's a shame that PT haven't built it into the control >>>> click menu for the track. It would be so easy to do. >>>> >>>> Any thoughts would be much appreciated. >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> http://www.davideagle.co.uk
