The new features include built-in Dolby Atmos panning, support for 7.1.2 stems, Avid pro mixing control surface integration, automation with the Dolby Rendering and Mastering Unit (RMU), and support for Avid NEXIS shared storage, increasing workflow speeds and overall efficiency.īroad-based audio firms such as Yamaha, encompassing both Steinberg and Yamaha Commercial Audio, give its hardware users every good reason in the world to adopt anything between the most basic Cubase to a sophisticated Nuendo 8 rig as their primary working DAW. With Avid’s Pro Tools 12.8 DAW update, the industry leader joins forces with Dolby to include a suite of Atmos workflows into Pro Tools | HD, to effectively allow more audio content creators to work more easily within burgeoning multichannel and object-based audio formats. Many of them include rich sources of tones, with input-to-master production features, to gain nearly any stylistic effect you can dial up. You can remix old tracks into a multichannel album release. The following DAWs can do things as simple as compile and mix 48, 72 or however many channels you want. And Automatic for the People will be available in the Dolby Atmos format on November 10. Today, it’s not unusual to write and record a song, with string arrangement, alone on a laptop while wearing headphones, conducting the entire production (with all apologies to proper conductors). There were DAWs available back in 1992, but they weren’t typically used on a project of this scale. While talking about their recent remastering work with R.E.M., producer Scott Litt and engineer Clif Norrell mentioned that Automatic for the People-a remarkably rich record from 1992, with all ingredients of grand Southern rock yet with a sound far larger than the South itself-noted that the originals were from 24-track analog and digital 32-track tape (ProDigi format), and there were multiple rooms and lots of people involved.
Last week I was reminded of how the digital audio workstations of 25 years ago were still far, far away from realizing their potential.