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This is an old revision of ParisIntro made by admin on 2008-04-04 11:50:13.
By definition, PARIS is a digital audio workstation, or DAW. It is a tracking and mixing environment with some rudimentary MIDI capabilities, usually ignored or disabled by users.
PARIS consists of four discrete components -
- EDS card - 5-volt PCI card which effectively forms the core of the system, manufactured in the following varieties:
- EDS500, basic EDS card without effects
- EDS1000, containing (x?) ESP2 DSP chips
- EDS1000x, the designation for an EDS1000 sold with connecting cables for multi-card use
- Audio interface, connected to the EDS via a CAT5 (Ethernet) cable:
- IF2
- 442
- MEC, the Modular Expansion Chassis designed to hold expansion modules such as:
- A8i
- A8o
- ADATio
- SMPTE
- PARIS software, a cross-platform software "front end" for the EDS card and peripherals:
- Version 3.0
- Versions prior to 3.0
- C16, a hardware mixing and control surface, available in two functionally identical versions:
- black or "original" C16
- blue, a later cosmetic change with new silkscreening that identified functions added or remapped in V3.0 software.
ASIO drivers were included, but due to serious limitations including inability to access MEC modules, a maximum of two channels and general lack of reliability are considered essentially non-functional by users.
Various third-party initiatives specific to PARIS include:
- XP Drivers (functional and stable)
- Mac OSX drivers (abandoned before reaching functionality)
- additional EDS plugins:
- Chuck Duffy's "PARIS Skunkworks" (aka "Chunkworks") plugins
- Mike Audet's ongoing augmentations of PARIS
Other initiatives designed to be of use to (but not specifically limited to) the PARIS platform have been:
- AnalogX's PARIS utilities (DX plugins designed to address limitations in PARIS, but in most cases compatible with other DAWs as well)
Finally, the PARIS EQ, generally held to have a particularly desirable sound, have been ported into VST as plug-ins so they can be made available in non-PARIS DAWs.
