Comments on: “And here’s your moment of zen…”

By: Chad

Chad — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 17:08:05 +0000

I agree with you, Stiff. There would be no impact on HD sales if they added delay comp & freeze to LE.

The problem is fear on Avid’s part, in my opinion.

They don’t want to cannibalize themselves and their whole market strategy is based on a tier system.

To be clear: I’m only speculating here. Speculating as an outsider. I don’t know this for a fact, but I have a strong suspicion I’m not too far off from the truth. It doesn’t take a genius to suss this out.

- c

By: stiff

stiff — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 17:06:57 +0000

I’ve heard something along the same lines actually, but I have no idea if it’s true. Anyway I guess Digidesign would have to rethink their delay compensation if they were to implement it in LE/M-Powered since the HD version depends on TDM.

By: Golsje

Golsje — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 10:47:35 +0000

I was told that since the computers CPU’s are busy calculating other things like where to send data, HDD issues and so on, it actually is not possible to calculate the delay compensation accurately using only the computers CPU’s. You will have to dedicate the process to something like the HD Accel cards. Hence no other DAW have “true” delay compensation. Not real time anyway.

I do not know if it is true, but in my world it makes some kind of sence.

Golsje

By: stiff

stiff — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 05:56:10 +0000

I’m actually one of the few people who think there would be little difference to the HD sales if Digidesign included proper delay compensation in LE. There’s more to HD than just delay compensation. Besides, big studios will always want the best. So if that’s their reason then I think they’re just aggrevating people for no good reason.

By: Lionel

Lionel — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 03:20:09 +0000

I agree with Chad. It’s a business thing and quite honestly, Digidesign is doing its best to milk us for all we’ve got while slowly adding features to its upgrades. It would be wonderful to see a freeze track feature in version 8, though! As for delay compensation, just get quad(or more) computer with plenty of ram. That should do the trick ;D

By: Chad

Chad — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 20:57:57 +0000

The lack of these features works towards Digidesign’s carrot-in-front-of-the-mule’s-face strategy.

It’s important that there is a key class distinction between LE and HD and thee features are two of the most important.

In the face of modern Mac power, HD is getting kinda silly and they know it. If they give LE users track freeze and delay comp, why would someone with a fast modern computer want to move to HD.

They wouldn’t.

- c

By: ~Jon~

~Jon~ — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 20:29:41 +0000

damn, she’s hot.

I like these kind of posts Stiff!