Tag archives for Mackie
Summing up Winter NAMM 2012
Slate Digital Raven X1 production console. Maybe it’s me getting old, bitter and harder to impress but I think the major trade shows have gone downhill the last few years. They brag about record amount of visitors but to me it seems like less interesting new products and fewer exhibitors. But Winter NAMM 2012 was [...]
Free Pro Tools M-Powered 8 compatibility for Mackie Onyx-i mixers
You might know that you can use Mackie’s Onyx-i series mixers with Pro Tools 8 M-Powered. Until now you’d have to buy the Mackie Universal Driver Upgrade from the Mackie website for $50 bucks. For April and May, however, the driver will be free for anyone registering a new Onyx-i mixer. Anyone used one of [...]
Loud and Avid announce licensing agreement
Earlier this year Mackie showed the world that they had cracked the Digi code and that Pro Tools M-Powered could be run without Avid interfaces but with a Mackie one instead. Now it’s official, Loud (owners of Mackie) and Avid has signed an agreement that licenses the use of the Onyx-i series with Pro Tools [...]
More on the Mackie M-Powered situation
So it appears that it’s true that Mackie has indeed “cracked the Digi code” as someone put it (previous post with slightly ridiculous but funny video). Pro Tools M-Powered is indeed functional in a new range of Mackie interfaces/mixers. I asked Avid about it and here’s their official statement: Avid (Digidesign) has not approved or [...]
Mackie iSeries mixer gets Pro Tools functionality
Just a video I got notified about twice now. Make of it what you want. We all know Apogee and others have gotten a foot in Avid/Digidesigns door, offering converters for HD systems, now it appears that something similar will be possible with Mackie products. I’m a little curious myself as to why one would [...]
Smart AV Tango gets Pro Tools support, another contender?
The Smart AV Tango controller got quite some attention when it was announced. Slightly surprising, the buzz has since diminished more than a little in my opinion. Now Smart AV has announced Pro Tools support, boasting it’s the best 3rd party controller for us ‘toolers.
Control surfaces
Digidesign D-Control In this post I’d like to talk about something that is very close to my heart, and the one thing that keeps me from buying a decent analog board (I could never afford a great one!). Control surfaces are in my opinion essential to the digital audio revolution, and while I started out [...]
