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David Gibbons - Director Of Product Marketing - Digidesign

David Gibbons is the Director of Product Marketing for Digidesign. David joined Digidesign in 2000 to manage the development of VENUE, a new live performance mixing system for concert touring. After three years, he moved on to direct the product management team for all products developed at the company. Prior to Digidesign, he worked on the development of digital mixing consoles, and as an audio engineer.

Founded in 1983, Digidesign is the leading manufacturer of computer-based digital audio production systems. They provide the professional music, broadcast, multimedia and film industries with tools for creation, production, collaboration and distribution in today's digitally connected world. Digidesign's Pro Tools software and hardware products are used throughout the professional sound industry, and touch most music, video and film productions. Digidesign is a division of Avid Technology, Inc., a developer of non-linear video editing systems. In August 2004, Avid acquired M-Audio, a manufacturer of computer-based audio products for musicians

ICON Integrated Console with D-Control

Digidesign ICON is the first truly integrated console solution of its kind and features the new D-Control tactile work surface, Pro Tools|HD Accel as its core DSP engine, and modular Pro Tools|HD audio interfaces for analog and digital I/O. The ICON redefines audio production possibilities by enabling operators to accomplish every aspect of a project -- mixing, recording, editing, and processing, complete with integrated video and delivery -- within a single, fully integrated environment. Unlike typical digital consoles, ICON is a completely custom-configurable audio production environment. Options include expandable analog and digital I/O, integrated remote mic preamps, industry-leading Digidesign Development Partners effects processing plug-ins and software options, seamless Avid picture support, and comprehensive synchronization and machine control options.

VENUE Live Sound System with D-Show

Digidesign VENUE is an innovative, state-of-the-art live sound reinforcement mixing and processing environment offering the quality and functionality of high-end live sound mixing systems at a far more affordable price. Purpose-built from the ground up, VENUE delivers studio-grade sound quality, maximum reliability, and unprecedented flexibility. VENUE consists of the D-Show mixing console, FOH mix engine, a Stage Rack I/O unit with recallable, remote-controlled preamps and a multi-channel digital snake. The system is highly expandable, allowing up to 96 mic inputs to be mixed to 27 busses. The powerful mix engine provides EQ and Dynamics processing on every input channel, along with 24 assignable graphic EQs and full support for Pro Tools plug-ins. VENUE also features an integrated recording and playback option for industry-standard Digidesign Pro Tools systems.

DigiDelivery LT (MSRP $3,295 US) & DigiDelivery GT (MSRP $9,995 US)

The DigiDelivery file exchange system is the new standard in secure global file transfers. Users can exchange any kind of digital file of virtually any size with anyone in the world. DigiDelivery is faster, more secure, and more reliable than FTP or overnight deliveries, and easily installs on your existing network, cable modem, or DSL modem. Simply drag and drop files to send a delivery, or click a link in an email to receive a delivery -- no need for recipients to enter IP addresses, usernames, or passwords. Military-grade encryption guarantees the security of files. The Setup Wizard and web-based administration mean DigiDelivery is easy enough for anyone to install and use. DigiDelivery saves time and money by eliminating customization costs, service fees, and missed deliveries, while automated reporting makes billing customers a breeze.

Pro Tools TDM 6.6 Software

Pro Tools TDM 6.6 software brings professional quality video playback via Avid Mojo to Pro Tools|HD on Mac OS X, providing a uniquely integrated post-production solution with Avid video. With Avid Mojo and the DigiTranslator option (both purchased separately), Pro Tools TDM 6.6 can open OMF/AAF sequences created with Xpress Pro or Avid Media Composer, play back video via an external monitor, tab from cut to cut in the Pro Tools video track, and export finished audio for re-integration into the original Avid sequence.

Pro Tools 6.7 Software

Whether working with MIDI, audio only, or both, Pro Tools 6.7 offers powerful and flexible features that will benefit anyone who is doing music creation work in Pro Tools. The audio and MIDI feature set in Pro Tools 6.7 has been greatly expanded to deliver tempo-dependent audio and automation, improved drawing and management of tempo curves and meter changes, MIDI step input, enhanced support for instrument plug-ins, MIDI Detective and Beat Detective for Pro Tools LE.

Digidesign Presents DigiWorld San Francisco

As part of Digidesign's 20th Anniversary celebration, Digidesign is excited to host the biggest DigiWorld event ever. DigiWorld is a free educational event showcasing the newest products from Digidesign, M-Audio and Digidesign Development Partners. Digidesign invites AES attendees and the general public to its headquarters in Daly City, California on Saturday, October 30, 2004 from 10am to 7pm for a chance to tour the Digidesign facilities, meet Digidesign staff and participate in free Pro Tools classes and whitepaper forums.

DigiWorld will provide hands-on demos of Digidesign ICON Integrated Console, VENUE Live Sound Environment, Pro Tools|HD Accel, the Pro Tools LE family, Digidesign control surfaces and Pro Tools plug-ins. The event will feature the Digidesign Product Solutions Area, which will provide guests an opportunity to learn how to apply the power and flexibility of Pro Tools to their workflow to achieve optimal results in both music and post production environments.

Visitors of DigiWorld can also learn about complete audio solutions for musicians at any level with an overview of M-Audio's comprehensive product line of interfaces, keyboards, microphones, speakers, software and sample libraries at the M-Audio Solutions Theater. In addition, M-Audio's interactive area will allow guests to get their hands on the latest technology with the personal assistance of M-Audio product specialists.

At DigiWorld, attendees can get hands-on experience with the latest software and plug-ins from Digidesign Third Party Development Partners. Participants include: Ableton, Antares, Apple, Arturia, Audio Ease, Berkleemusic.com, Bias, Eventide, Fxpansion, INA-GRM, IK Multimedia, McDSP, MOTU, Native Instruments, Princeton Digital, Propellerheads, Trillium Lane Labs, Unique Recording Software, Serato, Sony Oxford, SoundToys, Submersible Music, Virtual Katy Development Limited and Waves.

Peter Kirn - O'Reilly Mac OS X Conference Speaker

Peter Kirn has worked collaboratively in various media including dance, spoken word, music, and video. He has collaborated with choreographers Kathy Westwater and Christopher Williams, and poets and spoken word artists Tyrone Henderson, Todd Colby, and Christina Springer, and performer/writer Elizabeth Zimmer in performances at venues like PS 122, HERE Arts Center Dance Theater Workshop, the Flea Theater, the Clark Studio Theater at Lincoln Center, Williamsburg Arts neXus (WAX) and many others. His music and video creations have been featured internationally, including performances in Bulgaria and Korea and at conferences such as the Society for Electro-Acoustic Music US (SEAMUS) and Society of Composers (SCI); his choral music has been televised on CBC and TV-5 Europe. His video work has been featured at SEAMUS, New York's Tenri Gallery, and the Eyewash VJ/motion graphics series and Eyewash DVD. He is co-founder and co-curator of the Meme performance series and a co-founder of the Graduate Center Contemporary Ensemble.

Kirn is also known as a technology expert. He has presented workshops throughout the country, including conferences like Macworld Conference & Expo, National Symposium on Music Instruction Technology, and the O'Reilly OS X Conference, is a regular contributor to Keyboard, MacDesign, and Macworld Magazines, is the writer of a new reference material on computer music for Peachpit Press due spring 2005, Real World Audio, and is an assistant for digital video at the New Media Lab of the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY).

He is currently completing a PhD in Music Composition at the CUNY Graduate Center, where his teachers have included Thea Musgrave and Tania Leon. He has received an M.M. from Brooklyn College (CUNY) and a B.A. from Sarah Lawrence College, where he was recipient of the Theodore Presser Prize. Kirn has taught Electronic Music as Guest Faculty at Sarah Lawrence College and is an Adjunct Lecturer of Music Theory and Computer Music at Hunter College (CUNY).

Peters O'Reilly Mac OS X Conference Tutorial

Be a Mac Music Virtuoso: Advanced Digital Music Creation

Peter Kirn, Digital Music and Media Writer, Trainer, Composer, Performer

So you've gotten to the digital music equivalent of chopsticks, putting together some decent tunes in software like GarageBand. Now you want to really wail, mastering your musical Mac like a fine Fender guitar or Bosendorfer piano. This workshop will explore how an arsenal of a few OS X music production tools can take you from computer music novice to virtuoso.

Virtual Studio Integration

Mac OS X offers some powerful core-level audio features that allow software to coexist and interoperate, many of which are unparalleled on other platforms, but many Mac musicians don't know how to take advantage of them. We'll load up your OS X music toolkit with essential freeware and shareware no digital music maven should be without, and optimize your setup for ultimate power and flexibility.

Mad Beat Science

Power Tool Survival Guide

Advanced interactive sound tools like Max/MSP have made their mark on music like Radiohead, but mere mortals often hide in fear. We'll demystify some of the basics of advanced sound production so you can add new aural phenomena to your music, liberate your creativity, and unleash new sonic worlds.

Scott Sheppard - Executive Producer / Host

Scott Sheppard is the founder and editor of the popular Macintosh Web Site, http://www.OSXFAQ.com He is also a monthly Contributing Editor to Macworld UK magazine and produces a daily audio broadcast of Mac news and information Inside Mac Radio.

Scott Sheppard previously hosted the Inside Mac Show broadcast by CNET radio.

Scott has been using Apple computers for more than 25 years, as well as spending many years as a Wintel user, giving him the unique perspective of having spent a lot of time on both sides of the computer fence.

Sam Levin - Senior Mac Technologist

Sam Levin Co-Founded the Stanford Mac Users' Group in 1985, and has worked with leading Macintosh developers on business development, licensing, and strategic market development. Sam Directed licensing and business development initiatives for leading companies such as Axio, Virgin Interactive, Broderbund, Chronos, Mattel, Connectix, IBM Multimedia, IXLA, iSkin, Jiiva, Keyspan, Microsoft, MYOB, MacMice, Fathom Pictures, LandWare, Nova Development, Totally Hip Software, Y-E Data and more.

Sam has been using Macs for 20 years, as well as tied into the world of handheld and digital imaging, providing him a special angle on personal computing and consumer electronics.

Ken Ray - UTN Director Of Engineering

Ken Ray has worked both sides of the radio mic for over ten years. He has written and produced comedy bits for an alternative station in Boston, anchored two and half hours of news daily on TechTV Radio, was morning drive personality on an FM country station in the middle of nowhere, was operations director for an AM in Boston, was operations director for an AM in San Francisco, and has logged countless hours in production studios, tearing out everything from down and dirty :30 spots that need to hit the air yesterday to agency spots to long-form infomercials and even longer-form CD projects. Writing news, spots, promos and interstitials also fits somewhere in his repertoire. And he runs a mean radio board for in studio as well as remote broadcasts.

Outside of radio, Ken wrote for the magazine Global Technology Business.

He also makes a darn good bread pudding.

Greg Douglas - UTN Director of Network Operations

Gregory Douglas has fifteen years of experience in the radio, television and computer- related areas. He was the Director of Network Operations for Personal Achievement Radio, which included responsibilities for the production, operation and distribution of the "PAR" format. As the primary individual in charge of the on-air sound for "PAR", Mr. Douglas interacted with the motivational authors, Nightingale-Conant, ABC Radio Networks, PAR O & O's and affiliates and the broadcast talent. He pioneered the transition to digital for the flagship PAR studios. In addition, Mr. Douglas was M.I.S. Manager for Douglas Broadcasting Inc. where he was responsible for the traffic and business computer functions as well as the computer networking of DBI/PAR radio outlets.

Previously, he was the General Manager of DBI's Seattle operation and Station Manager at WBPS-AM in Boston. Also, Mr. Douglas has been involved in almost all areas of broadcasting, including traffic, business, engineering, production and sales.