In the most recent copy of Spotlight, Avid’s email newsletter, they announced the posting of their open letter concerning the state of Digidesign. To sum up the letter, Avid is going to retire the Digidesign name completely and turn M-Audio into a product line rather than a manufacturer. Avid is releasing an all new website that has taken the place of many of the other company websites below them such as Digidesign.com. Get ready to see anything Digi now say Avid in big letters and for anything M-Audio to have yet another logo attached.

http://duc.digidesign.com/showthread.php?t=270775

Stumbled across a very cool audio design blog which has some really cool Q&A sessions with talented professionals from the sound design field. Make sure to add them to your RSS Feeds and you won’t be dissapointed!

http://designingsound.org/

I’ve been recently been working with a lot of students on how to “comp” or compile a final take from many different takes. This usually involves loop recording many takes into multiple playlists and the new features of Pro Tools 8 allow us to see these takes all under one track. To explain how this new feature works, I have embeded a video from Digidesign showing how to use the new playlist compiling features.

EQ Magazine Article

http://www.eqmag.com/article/signal-to-noise/oct-08/89167

From Cuyahoga Community College’s Own RAT department comes Mike Papatonis with one of his EQ Magazine Articles:

http://www.eqmag.com/article/drum-heads-big/oct-08/89391