Well, we recently wrote about the beginning of the Pro Tools XONE in an earlier blog. Now that we have been using the Pro Tools Rig for a week or two, the picture of "what's available" is finally coming clear. But first, before you can enjoy all of Pro Tools' excellent features, one has to get everything configured correctly before Pro Tools will even let you touch it's fuzzy warbles...
Jason and I were in Pro Tools Headache hell last Friday. Jason expanded the rig to by adding a Presonus Digimax FS digital interface to allow 8 of his drum mics to stay connected at all times. Well, adding one new element requires re-configuration. First, we had to get the Pro Tools to allow us to send the 8 inputs to the DAW. This meant we had to sync the internal clocks of both the Digimaxx and the Pro Tools. Then we needed to assign an input to each track for multitrack recording. Let me tell you, you do all this once and then you make a Template to start each new project with in the future. There's no way you'd want to go through this each time you set up a new project. Everything was set and then we started getting spikes on the drum mics, even though they weren't being played. It took us an hour of freaking out to figure out that the Hardware Setup needed to be configured for the Optical In, not the Internal clock. This is all starting to sound very technical and cold isn't it?
Well, that's the world of DAWs, and Plug-Ins, and Dongles, and Light-Pipe Interfaces, and XONE is deep in it now.
But it IS a lot of FUN too!
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