Congratulations!: Andy Davison, our Music Technician at the Martin Harris Centre has qualified as a ‘ProTools Certified Operator in Music’. He is 1 of just 26 registered operators in Manchester. This is a certification program from Digidesign/Avid for the ProTools DAW (Digital Audio Workstation) software, which is the industry standard software for audio production.Although NOVARS Reserch centre is well equiped with professional Pro Tools systems in the Electroacoustic studios, we also strongly support Open Source software. Our first flotating Ubuntu Studio Linux workstation, launched in 2008, included software such as Pure Data, Processing (visuals), DIPS (Digital Image Processing with Sound), Supercollider, and PWGL among others. New exciting expansions in this direction are planned for 2009-10 with the incorporation of Blender and a faster architecture machine and linux-compatible sound card.
NOVARS Broadcast: Andy has also just completed the setup of the first audio-visual streamer broadcaster internal server for the NOVARS Research Centre, which will allow us, among other things, live broadcasting of many music research activities during the academic year 2008-09 and it will serve as a pilot experience. for more creative use of the tool. Studio matinees, local workshops and presentations from selected composers, phsycial scientists and engineers at NOVARS will no longer be exclusively for local people. NOVARS plans are to broadcast them across the internet and e-archive them, for everyone interested in our music and research activities.
