

All of this causes a noticeable delay, and it makes it really hard to deliver a performance. When you sing, you will hear your voice in your headphones, but only after it has gone down the firewire cable, been processed by Pro Tools, and sent back to the 003's headphone sockets. You have the mic in front of you and the backing track in your headphones.

Imagine you are a singer who is recording though a Digidesign 003. However neither of these solutions address the latency issue although we've found one add-on that does - using an RME Fireface audio interface as an external AD/DA converter and monitor mixer. Users are addressing the audio quality issues by either adding external converters from the likes of RME and Apogee to the digital I/O of their Digidesign interfaces or having companies such as Black Lion Audio modify their internal workings. The 002 and 003 ranges have been singled out for having no zero latency monitoring, audio converters below par when compared with other manufacturers and low-gain, noisy preamps. Secondly, we're not so enamoured of the LE hardware.

Reading through the various Pro Tools forums, there are two commonly recurring themes.įirstly, Pro Tools users love Pro Tools software for its reliability, flexibility, ease of use, precision editing and being the only audio platform that maintains sample accurate sync across all tracks in a session.
