Welcome aboard Mats! Good to have you with us. :)

I recently did a few days work (grudgingly) on a Radar, and was impressed by the sound quality. Without any fancy outboard converters, this thing sounds great right out of the box. Unfortunately, I was not so impressed by the editing functions. A simple cut and paste seems to take ages to complete (compared to my usual m.o., ProTools). I'm wondering about the new Radar that's coming out. Will the sound be as good or better? Will editing be a little faster? Any other operational differences? And oh yea, OMF?

We bought the Radar II as a replacement for an Analog tape recorder. It has been super-nice, real reliable & easy to operate, sounds teriffic, inexpensive backup media and so on.
The radar is not a DAW, we have a DAW also but would never dream of using one on a tracking session. If we need the DAW funcionality we just dump those tracks to the DAW.
It seems like future Radar software updates gives more DAW-like funcions.

This is a serious pro-grade recording device that gives very good client, the Radar has probably recorded more hits than any other hard-disk based recording system.

/Mats

Hi guys,

I'm the support manager at iZ. Like Mats I was on the road for many years as a guitarist and I eventually got tired of the grind.

I began writing and producing and ended up sitting in "the chair" because I heard what I wanted in my head and found that I could get there faster than some of the engineers I worked with at the time. I did a stint as a recording instructor and then moved into post work and composing for picture.

I had a PT system that I worked with for a long time and then I got RADAR. The RADAR II blew me away (for me tracking with PT is like trying to BBQ a steak with a toaster). I was an instant fan after the first tracking session I did and after that I only touched PT for “finessing” stuff (anybody else troubled by the weirdness that happens to your audio inside a DAW?).

When I got a call from my friend iZ founder, RADAR inventor Barry Henderson asking if I was interested in joining the company I jumped at the opportunity. It's a great company to work for made up of people that have a passion for audio and doing things right, which is a very big job by the way ;-)

Our corporate vision is to create visionary audio products; our mission is recording the world. All this just so you'll know where I'm coming from.

As for RADAR 24's present editing capabilities, as Mats said it is not a DAW. It is however an amazingly fast assembly editor. One RADAR user in the US uses it to produce 50 to 60(!) radio spots a day. Think of it as a 2" machine on steroids with a built in digital grease pencil.

RADAR is designed to work with a mixer. We have a Sony DMXR-100 here at iZ and it's a match made in heaven. For the tweak head thing that I like to do occasionally with a DAW, I just dump across in real time via AES or TDIF (yes it's faster than a file transfer ;-)

On the OMF thing, RADAR 24 won't support OMF but the next major release of software, 3.1, will include Broadcast Wave import/export via DVD-RAM. AES-31 play list support will follow shortly thereafter. This will allow a RADAR 24 project to go back and forth between DAW's etc. with the play list intact. File import/export and transfer via Ethernet is also on the way.

Many exciting products and features are coming! Thanks for this opportunity to introduce iZ and myself.

Happy tracking!

Welcome to RO Robin. :)

Ok, let me see if I get this straight...
Once AES31 playlist support is implemented, I will be able to slap a dvd burner to the back of the Radar, convert and dump the session to dvd, then walk into any PT5.1 room and restore to a local HD? If this is the idea, what would be a ballpark estimated time for converting and burning, let's say, one six minute song at 48kHz, 24bit, 24 tracks?

(Hope I haven't turned you off on your first visit here, hehe. We needz to git down to bizniz dough! We made it so hot in here for Soundscape that they ran off and sold their parent company to Makee! ;) )

Well Ang, you may have some truth there regarding SS but we'll never know for sure.

Welcome aboard Robin Leboe and Paul Dirks! our new moderators for this exciting product. Looking forward to seeing this forum grow.

Cheers! :cool:

Hey guys,

Its a pleasure to be here and share our vision for audio with everyone. :)

Angelo,

You've got it about right, export to dvd-ram (type II) and it will be read by DVD-ROM on your mac.

Ever since digital has come into being, there has been a lack of compatibility, but AES-31 is here to cure us from all our incompatibility disease. Our goal is that eventually, you can take a project from anywhere and load it into anything else, no problem. Hopefully Pro-Tools will support AES-31 in the near future.

iZ cares about our customers, and wants to serve them and their needs as musicians, engineers, producers etc. We have a commitment to INCREDIBLE sound quality (and yes RADAR 24 sounds even better than RADAR II) but also to our customers.

Part of that commitment is 24 hour/7day a week phone support. To our knowledge we are the ONLY pro audio company to offer 24/7 support with a real person listening and responding to your issues!

I know I'm rambling on, but you'll have to forgive me as I want to simply state where we're coming from and who we are considering we are a new company (new company=new thinking!)

Cheers,
Paul Dirks
Assistant Support Manager http://www.recordingtheworld.com

Thanks Paul, and welcome aboard! :)

The AES31 thing has been due for a long time now. Finally a standard! I doubt Digi will have any choice but to implement it if they want to stay competetive. But Digi's a strange company. Nevermind, I'm getting sidetracked... That's another can of worms.

I'd still like to know how long it will take to convert and backup a 6 minute song. Likely to be longer than dumping via either lightpipe or aes?

Hi,

We are just finishing off the UDF code which allows the DVD-RAM disc to be read by both Mac and PC workstations. Once this is done we'll let you know about the convert time in a "real world" situation.

Thanks...

Hi guys,
well I, being completely new here, but RADAR user since number 1 - and now we have a RII and a R24 in our studio A and a PT set in studio B, would like to know if this broadcast wave export function will work only with DVD. Since we don't use the DVD backup option but a Mammoth drive instead, I would prefer to make a copy of a project, convert it to broadcast wave (or is this going to be a native recording mode?) and then save it to an extra removable hard disk , which I can take to my Mac, do my PT edits and then bring it back to RADAR...

Can we expect something like thiZ in a nearfuture version (3.1 perhaps)???

regards,
deFrenz

Yes, you can expect this in the future- although not 3.1, perhaps 3.2

Paul
iZ

So DVD-RAM first, to another HD second, and then ethernet (yea!!) third?

Hi,

In version 3.1 you can (with the addtion of the optional "off the shelf" SCSI card) export directly to an HFS+ drive! All you'd need then is a Kingston receiver attached to your Mac.

cheers...