Rewire with Protools anyone?

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I was wondering what people might be doing with Rewire and Protools. I
know some guys use Reason with PT Free, but I was thinking more along the lines
of using non-Digidesign hardware with Protools software, using an App that is a
rewire slave to Protools as a route for interfacing non-Digidesign hardware -
like my Tascam DM24 mixer with the new IF/FW-Dm firewire card.

This weekend I updated my Dual G4 Mac to OS 10.3.6, Nuendo to 2.2, and the
firmware on my Tascam DM24 digital mixer from 1.6 to 2.2 to version 3. Popped
in the new Firewire card into the DM24, and Viola, now I have 24 tracks in and
out between the Dm24 and Nuendo2 in OSX. It went well really! - too well...
Anyway so now I am thinking I might be able to use Nuendo as a rewire slave to
Protools 6.2 and go straight from the DM24 into Protools, even if I just buy an
M-Box (as sadly I have mostly retired my nubus Protools system/PT5.0.1).

If this kind of thing actually works, or if Tascam writes a Rewire
Application for the DM24 that will let it rewire slave to Protools (maybe even
in OS9), maybe the era of Digidesign's hardware monopoly with Protools software
is over? Would a dedicated Rewire host application be a simpler way for
Tascam to code interfacing the Dm24 with all the various Software programs out
there, and be a way to get OS9 support for all us who ain't real crazy about
OSX?

Ruminations?

Will Miho
NY Music & TV Audio Guy
Audioist / Fox News
"The large print giveth and the small print taketh away..." Tom Waits

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>>Steve Jorgensen <nospam@nospam.nospam> wrote

> willstg@aol.comnospam (WillStG) wrote:
> ...
> > This weekend I updated my Dual G4 Mac to OS 10.3.6, Nuendo to 2.2, and the
> >firmware on my Tascam DM24 digital mixer from 1.6 to 2.2 to version 3. Popped
> >in the new Firewire card into the DM24, and Viola, now I have 24 tracks in and
> >out between the Dm24 and Nuendo2 in OSX. It went well really! - too well...
> >Anyway so now I am thinking I might be able to use Nuendo as a rewire slave to
> >Protools 6.2 and go straight from the DM24 into Protools, even if I just buy an
> >M-Box (as sadly I have mostly retired my nubus Protools system/PT5.0.1).


> Just one problem. Nuendo currently has some serious bugs with Rewire on
> multi-processor machines. I've had to switch Nuendo to single-processor mode
> to use it with Reason using Rewire. The problem is listed as a known bug for
> Nuendo, so perhaps it will be fixed at some point.
>
> Now, I've been wishing we'd gotten the 1.8 GHz single-processor system instead
> of the dual 1GHz. <


Whcih version of Nuendo are you using Steve? Is there a good Mac
App that plays well in with Rewire in OS 10.3.x?

Will Miho

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<<One thing I do know is that I'm never again going to choose 2 slower
processors over one faster one. Everything I've tried to do with
multi-processor on Mac or PC has had something that didn't work right with
it.
When that was fixed, there was something else that didn't work right. I
think
there must just be too many variables involved in a dual-processor
configuration to ever be able to fully trust it.
"Steve Jorgensen" >>

My dual 1gig g4 has a real problem with my uad 1 card. Pops, ticks, etc.
Tried everything, even borrowed another computer (dual867)...not quite as
bad. Apparently, some are worse than others. Go figure!


Rick Hollett