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Just for giggles

Postby FrankH » Mon Aug 21, 2017 11:58 pm

I just found this. We were debating making this the next big thing in October 1999....and then everything went south. I may have posted this or something like this before. I just thought some of you would get a laugh out of it.

Carry on.
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Re: Just for giggles

Postby Petersueco » Tue Aug 22, 2017 1:00 am

Wow. What a beauty!
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Re: Just for giggles

Postby phantomrage » Tue Aug 22, 2017 4:05 am

I find it amusing that presonus jas taken a lot from the d8b and put it into the studio live platform. Fat channel comes to mind.
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Re: Just for giggles

Postby FrankH » Tue Aug 22, 2017 4:56 am

Most likely because the late Bob Tudor was director of technology for Presonus during the development stage of a lot of their current product lines. Bob wrote the software for the D8B when he was the head of the digital department at Mackie. When I first showed Bob my initial concept drawings for the organization of a single channel view for the D8Bs GUI, he said: "Wow, that's fat lookin'...it's a fat channel". That's how it got its name.
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Re: Just for giggles

Postby Crash » Tue Aug 22, 2017 5:49 pm

Bob was quite the character.
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Re: Just for giggles

Postby funk » Wed Aug 23, 2017 1:06 pm

looks great.
the next generation, if only mackie kept it going.
could of been by now
a 16 bus, 6 card 48 in/out, with usb and probox and wifi, compleate with a 48 chan HDR ........perfect
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Re: Just for giggles

Postby FrankH » Wed Aug 23, 2017 7:47 pm

Besides the features suggested in the mockup, two things that were being considered were a dedicated DAC for inserts on the 2 Mix bus and a UFX-like card that had 4 stereo audio returns for external gear. It was to remain an 8 bus unit.
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