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
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