A “Mackie Insider”, identity concealed by ski mask and pitch-shifted voice, spilled the beans: new Onyx-i Series mixer/interfaces will run Pro Tools without the need for Avid hardware. The video indeed unlocked the mystery: a viral marketing campaign. It contained a Mackie 820i 8-input Onyx-i mixer with a FireWire interface, a copy of M-Powered Pro Tools 8, a “ransom note”, and a DVD promising to explain it all. Pro Tools M-Series hardware interfaces, however, offer less physical (knobs) for the control of the signals, and Pro Tools requires use of proprietary interfaces to go in and out of the computer/software, which means being limited to the sonic signature of the converters of those interfaces.Ī few days ago, a mysterious “Black Box” arrived at my door. With higher end Pro Tools systems, like Pro Tools HD with Pro Control and even Pro Tools LE 003, the desktop (or rack-mount controllers) also have knobs and/or faders that allow you to manipulate your signals “out of the box”. I use this same method when working with (Avid) Pro Tools. It gives digital recordings more of an analog sound while making my work process much easier and faster.
That’s why, even when using a DAW, I like to have an analog mixer to go into – and out of – the computer.
Not only do I love the way analog sounds, but I’m also quite fond of being able to reach out and grab a knob or fader to control a function. Anyone who knows me knows that I’m still the biggest fan of analog recording around.
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