Dear Csounders,

In response to the query about Ensonic's Paris system there is a review
in Keyboard Magazine,  July Issue (and it ain't even June).  A nice long
review which condensed:

PCI board with 6 chips for mixing and effects for either Mac or Wintel
Three versions of In/Out hardware -
a:  Stereo i/o box
b:  quad i/o,  S/PDFI i/o rackmount
c:  modular rackmount box with the b already in place and 9 expansion
slots for 8 in or out 24 bits expansion, ADAT lightpipe i/o
16 channel fader table top with knobs for  aux and eq and transport
control.
recording/mixing software Mac or Wintel  - up to 24 bits but  no built in
sequencer.
Separate lite versions of Wavelab or Bias stereo editing software,
although you can't run it through Paris' outputs.
Can run all 16 channels on a133MHz PC or 150 MHz Mac with 4 eq's on each
channel plus 8 subs (such as reverb)  or 16 channel inserts such as
(compressors) in realtime with the PCI board doing the work - effects are
like Ensonic's effect boxes. 
Can play a total 128 tracks at once, though all but 16 are premixed.
Add as many PCI boards as your computer can hold, each playing 16 tracks
as above.

The reviewer stated that mixing a voice over project was kludgy, but that
a recording project worked great, esp. being able to mix with the fader
box - almost like analog.

Alan  
Alan Tubbs/Mary Hestand
BadDog Productions

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