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Introduction to PARIS
PARIS stands for Pro Audio Recording Integrated System.
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 is an unusual platform because it remains one of the only DAWS in its current price range to combine the advantages of hardware with the flexibility of software
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
- ParisSw 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 as part of the PARIS package to enable other software to access the PARIS hardware. After much experimentation, due to serious limitations, including inability to access MEC modules, a maximum of two channels and a general lack of reliability, the drivers are considered essentially non-functional by users.
Various third-party initiatives specific to PARIS include:
- XpDriver XP Drivers which essentially permit nearly-full PARIS functionality (difficulties remain with multiple ADAT modules) under WinXp Windows XP
- MacOsxDrivers Mac OSX drivers (an apparently abandoned initiative to create drivers enabling PARIS functionality under MacOsx Mac OS X.x.
- additional EDS plugins:
- ChunkWorks Chuck Duffy's "ChunkWorks PARIS Skunkworks" (aka "ChunkWorks Chunkworks") plugins
- MikeAudet Mike Audet's ongoing augmentations of, and additions to, PARIS plugins
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 desirable sound, have been ported into VST as plug-ins so they can be made available in non-PARIS DAWs.`
