Artist Impression: Joe Stokes on SONAR V-Studio 700

[ditroiamusic]

I want this! Seems like a great guy too. Nice setup.

[Albigatnz]

You can get the Console seperately these days... it's called the "Studio 700c" I am getting one in a month.

[willxxxlife]

@Albigatnz can i get the sound card by it self

[Albigatnz]

@willxxxlife Nah dont get the soundcard... get something from presonus... what you want is the controller!!! THis controller and the studiollive equals big time win!

[ditroiamusic]

I'm hoping to grab one of these in the near future. It's not a "old school" thing (hardware). It's a workflow and tactile thing. In my opinion...not that it means much :)

[pimpleburger]

I quite enjoyed this video. Nice to see someone ejoying their workflow and doing what works for them. Maybe do another video with this guy showing us how Sonar is integrated with the video on the plasma the guy is watching. How it all integrates harware wise and software wise.

[FayezSaidawi]

Cakewalk always number 1

[bluecafe69]

Wow... That has got to be the most superfluous piece of hardware I have ever seen.

So, let me get this straight. People are expected shell out however many hundreds V-Studio cost, just so they can do things in Sonar that they could already do before???

[Swidhelm]

In a studio where time is money, and work flow can be streamlined by hands on hardware, certainly.

[bluecafe69]

You can do all of those things in Sonar easily with mouse clicks. There is no way I would pay for that.

[Swidhelm]

You are right, you can. But you are missing the point. You can do it faster with the V-studio. I think it would be a neat toy to play around with but for me it wouldn't make sense to invest in. But a studio it makes sense because it speeds the workd flow up. Northing worse than crunch time in a studio. Not good for the creativity--well for some anyways.

[bluecafe69]

Hmm... I don't think you can do the things demonstrated in this video any faster with the V-Studio. It is just another way to do the same things.

I think the hardware is for oldschool folks who just aren't used to using Software for everything. Muting and fading in tracks takes seconds with mouse clicks. As do the other things demonstrated in this video.

It is a different (and more expensive) way of doing things in Sonar, not a better way.

[Swidhelm]

I think with fading synths, effects, whatever into the background with the flick of the t-bar is easier than minimizing them all manually, and mixing would be quicker with the faders I think. I've recorded at a studio around the corner from where I live. The guy uses logic, but sometimes he routes all his faders out into his huge mitsubishi analogue console because he finds it easier and quicker to mix. But you are probably right with old school guys. Some aren't so great with computers.

[MNSPStudio]

The issue is more about how many items can a person do at once with a mouse? You can only automate a single fader at a time with a mouse, but with a console you can, obviously, fade at least 8 channels at once. You can also mute channels with your left hand while you still use the mouse to adjust something on screen, etc. I use a BCF-2000 in my studio for transport and mix control and it has cut my production time in half. Without it I'd be doing alot of stuff one item at a time.

[Swidhelm]

Now see I didn't even know you could do that many automations at once. I'd kill to get the V-studio 700, but I don't have $4000 to drop on it.

Cheers

[MNSPStudio]

Four fingers per hand, 8 faders. If you bussed your instruments to 8 channels, you could control the whole mix across 8 faders. Or if your intro/outro only has 8 distinct channels, bam you can fade-in/-out once through and analog (ie., with human instead of quantized sound) rather than program automations with a mouse one at a time. But I usually only do about 4 automations at a time myself. I'll go through and do one drum automation across 4 channels then come back for instruments.

[Swidhelm]

Yeah that would make life a lot easier :P One day dammit, I'll have the coin to get me a good mixer, if not the v studio 700.

Cheers for the info.