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In reply to Charles:
Thx for the info on Nuendo, I haven't looked at it indepth
and so will avoid that for now anyway. I messed with some
of their other stuff and found it cumbersome in use.
Will be curious about your "Merging" experience, so pls
post when you have used it some.
I did some testing of the original Sadie quite some time
ago. Though some parts of it were very elegant,
including the varispeed, a found a lot was very
counter-intuitive, perhaps spoiled by MTU!
(and that was many Medit versions ago on the
old DSP board, too)
I set up several tests where I attempted same
basic edits on both systems, just chopping up
some music and doing crossfades etc. --easy stuff.
Waited until I'd played with Sadie for about a week
to try and eliminate the un-familiarity factor.
The result was that it took me still over twice as long
with Sadie to do simple stuff as compared with Medit.
Had about the same result for normal everyday
"chop out the bad stuff" dialog editing, too.
Based on that I shipped them their demo unit back,
after talking with their head guy in the UK.
Also, the "waveform" in Sadie was actually a bitmap
graphic, and when you changed gain,etc, the bitmap
did not change-- nor did it on fades etc either.
Not the end of the earth, but was suprising.
The thing did sound quite good though.
I know they've made lots of changes since back
when I tried it, so will also be curious what you
think of it, coming from the MTU paradigm.
I know one classical label who bought Sadie
for mastering and their guy has told me he's
very happy with it for that kind of work. I think our kind
of editing might've been beyond Sadie's initial
design scope back then.
All best,
Rich
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