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Jakl

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Ensoniq Paris recording system?
« on: March 09, 2014, 03:43:38 AM »

Just want to know whether it'd be a good investment if
you still use OS9 if you can get it for cheap?

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Re: Ensoniq Paris recording system?
« Reply #1 on: August 07, 2025, 03:04:30 AM »

did you try it on os9?
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Re: Ensoniq Paris recording system?
« Reply #2 on: August 07, 2025, 05:08:24 AM »

Paris is cute, it costed far less than protools systems and offers great sounding converters and a little bit of DSP, mostly used for summing and EQ.

somewhat similar to protools you can run up to 8 or 9 cards, and each of them offers another 16 channels of IO, the limit is only the PCI bus (not sure where exactly it is)

if you really dont like the recroding software by intelligent devices for some reason, as far as i remember the paris cards also work with cubase, nuendo, logic and SVP.

ensonic also offered matching remote controls, no idea how difficult it is to find one these days (or is one included in yours?)

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Re: Ensoniq Paris recording system?
« Reply #3 on: August 07, 2025, 09:18:29 AM »

Paris is cute, it costed far less than protools systems and offers great sounding converters and a little bit of DSP, mostly used for summing and EQ.

somewhat similar to protools you can run up to 8 or 9 cards, and each of them offers another 16 channels of IO, the limit is only the PCI bus (not sure where exactly it is)

if you really dont like the recroding software by intelligent devices for some reason, as far as i remember the paris cards also work with cubase, nuendo, logic and SVP.

ensonic also offered matching remote controls, no idea how difficult it is to find one these days (or is one included in yours?)

I think it used rebadged Digidesign Pro Tools I Pro Tools Audio Interfaces from 1991 called "442 Interface" at some point.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/225906175194
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Re: Ensoniq Paris recording system?
« Reply #4 on: August 15, 2025, 03:18:32 AM »

confirmed it works in OS9 with Paris 2.2 software

very slick, compared to Digidesign TDM; you can apply insert effects without a tracking stopping or skipping.

the 'Control 16' which is connected to the EDS 1000 PCI card via ethernet is super responsive and the fader resolution is far in excess of 7-bit midi.  The jog wheel is optical and can be used to scrub audio like a tape recorder.

It sounds much better than Digidesign TDM - which by all accounts, including my own, sounds bad.
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Re: Ensoniq Paris recording system?
« Reply #5 on: August 15, 2025, 03:39:41 AM »

how many IO card you got and what did you pay?
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Re: Ensoniq Paris recording system?
« Reply #6 on: August 15, 2025, 04:35:55 AM »

confirmed it works in OS9 with Paris 2.2 software

very slick, compared to Digidesign TDM; you can apply insert effects without a tracking stopping or skipping.

the 'Control 16' which is connected to the EDS 1000 PCI card via ethernet is super responsive and the fader resolution is far in excess of 7-bit midi.  The jog wheel is optical and can be used to scrub audio like a tape recorder.

It sounds much better than Digidesign TDM - which by all accounts, including my own, sounds bad.

fotos/scans of cards and screenshots please
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