Unpacking and Installing
June 24, 2008 — Vanessa RileyI love the smell of plastic wrap and new technology in the morning!
The only things we are still waiting on are the microphones, which we didn’t even end up needing today. This morning was an install day.
A bit of disappointing news – at first glance, it looked like Audacity and the Mbox are incompatible, but with further research, I think we can get it to work. We had just started troubleshooting right before we left campus for the day, but I think that I’ve found a solution. We are just going to have to test it out tomorrow when we get the equipment in front of us.
ProTools is the software that came with the hardware, and I have read some amazing reviews of the software. The only problem that I have with it is that we only have one license. That’s fine for now, but I envision every student having the ability to podcast, and we can’t do that with one license. So, at this point, it looks like we have three options:
1. Get Audacity to work.
2. Get DigiDesign to donate licenses for ProTools so we can use this on multiple computers,
3. Use ProTools with one podcasting workstation.
I think at this point the next step is to start networking with other successful educational podcast programs. I knw it sounds cliche’, but why reinvent the wheel?
It’s only the beginning of summer, yet I’m actually looking forward to getting back on campus tomorrow!
