#RECALIBRATE DIGIDESIGN DCOMMAND 8 PRO#
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This may not sound like a big deal… but I can assure you that it’s a major step forward.

So it’s a credit to the D-Command that I was able to operate ’Tools with virtually no recourse to the mouse or keyboard shortcuts. And I would have to count myself in that category. We’re talking about a generation for whom the use of a control surface for complete access to all ProTools parameters is a totally foreign concept. It’s relatively affordable and rather than hitting a market that’s totally accustomed to large-format consoles (film mixing), it’s catering to the much wider but no less deserving community of ‘mouse-keteers’. This is where D-Command can take over the controls of the mothership. That’s all very well, but what about studios like mine that don’t need (or necessarily have the dosh for) a D-Control but have racks of ProTools HD hardware? The market needed a mid-range, yet powerful, mixing and control companion for ’Tools that still fits into the Icon paradigm.

#RECALIBRATE DIGIDESIGN DCOMMAND 8 TV#

In a relatively short time it’s been making steady inroads into large film and TV studios and used on some high-profile productions like the recent Star Wars episode. D-Control was meant to entirely replace a conventional mixing console when connected to a ProTools system. ‘Icon’ describes a scaleable and potentially massively powerful system.ĭ-Control is Digidesign’s large-format and pricey control surface. Up until now there’s been the D-Control at the helm, ably assisted by the analogue monitoring unit called the X-Mon, the Mic preamps, and Avid video options all talking to associated 192 or 96 I/O. Icon (first seen in AT Issue 34) is like ProTools HD’s mothership taking you wherever you need to go. At the heart of it all is the Icon concept. Plenty of energy has gone into creating more and more complementary hardware for its flagship product, ProTools. There has been some shifting of tectonic plates at Planet Digidesign in the last few years. The solution? It’s time to revisit all those knobs and faders. This goes for mixing, sampling, recording, Midi and all other functions that you perform in the computer. With a mouse and keyboard you can only adjust one parameter at a time… period. A whole orchestra can now reside and be recorded within the bounds of your typical computer! No wonder it all takes so long to do anything. What I’m suggesting is that what was possible to control with nothing more than a keyboard and a mouse a few years ago is increasingly difficult to do so now. Evil-style plot to divest us of all our hardware only to demand we buy it all again off of them… That’s a wee bit far-fetched. That’s not to say that I’m accusing Digidesign of any grand, Dr. And – here’s where the irony starts to show its face – it was Digidesign leading the charge. For most people they disappeared so completely that we now have a whole generation far more conversant with a mouse than a pan pot.

Then with the advent of digital… they disappeared. In years gone by, loads of knobs and controls were obligatory.

Whenever the latest DAW controller thuds onto the AT test bench the poignant irony of it all becomes obvious. D-Command's intuitive console layout includes a centralized Main Unit for fast access to essential functions.9 September 2005 New-generation or old school… either way, the new control surface from Digidesign seems set to take command. The ergonomic design of D-Command enables control through the channel strips and includes LCD display, LED ring, and bar-graph meters for visual feedback. Each channel strip features a touch-sensitive motorized fader, two multi-purpose rotary encoders, and multiple push buttons for quick access to key session parameters.

#RECALIBRATE DIGIDESIGN DCOMMAND 8 PRO#

With D-Command, operators have powerful hands-on command over every aspect of a Pro Tools project, including recording, editing, mixing, and processing - with integrated video and delivery - from a relatively small, but expandable, work surface.Įquipped with eight channel faders, D-Command is expandable to 24 faders by adding a single 16-channel Fader Module. As with the flagship large-format ICON D-Control console, D-Command utilizes Pro Tools|HD Accel as its DSP mix engine and Pro Tools|HD interfaces and peripherals for system I/O. The Digidesign D-Command tactile work surface is the newest member of the ICON family, packing amazing control and ICON-exclusive Pro Tools functionality into a medium-format console. Digital Adapters & Miscellaneous Cables.Acoustic Treatment and Sound Diffuser Panels.Best Selling Microphones - Tube & Solid State.Headset Microphones - Omnidirectional & Cardioid.