On Fri, Sep 17, 2004 at 06:55:55AM -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: > Dave Phillips wrote: > > > >This just in: > > > > http://news.harmony-central.com/Newp/2004/Plugzilla-LADPSA.html > > > > > > Plugzilla is interesting, but I can use my Pro Tools / 002 Rack in the > same manner for a lot less money. I get 18 I/O's (or 10 @ 96KHz) and > support for both VST as well as native RTAS plugins, as well as an > internal bus arrangement that allows me to mix audio before it comes > back to Ardour. > > Throw in 8 96K A/D's and at least 10 96K D/A's and 4 pretty good mic > preamps to boot and the 002 Rack makes a pretty nice outboard processor! Unless I'm missing something, it's just an I/O box for protools? I looked at digi's site and didn't see anything about hardware DSP with this box. OTOH, the Plugzilla box can run totally standalone. That's a lot more attractive for live use. But still hard to justify $3000. Maybe if I was a gigging keyboardist or something. What I'd really like is a portable road-hardened box that could run PD patches (without GUI), LADSPA plugins, and SAOL orcs. That would really rock. For adding new patches, hook it up to a computer via usb or firewire or ethernet, whatever's cheapest to implement. -- Paul Winkler http://www.slinkp.com
