Is Digital Performer used in a similar fashion for the network TV shows LOST and ALIAS?
On LOST and ALIAS, Digital Performer is used MUCH more extensively! From the composition process to the final mixes, everything is done in Digital Performer with a MOTU 828mkII. For LOST, we generate the click track from Digital Performer, as well as run the video and output prelays to the board. We use the 828mkII’s external Word Clock features to lock to an Apogee word clock. We even do our final recordings in Digital Performer. We bring 4 stereo pairs into the laptop from Dan Wallin’s live mix via ADAT. On LOST, the mix consists of Orchestra, Piano, Harp and Percussion. From there, everything is recorded into Digital Performer using takes, which we can quickly splice between should there be a noise or mistake in the orchestra’s performance. Once the session is done, we mix in pre-lays, such as synth sounds and percussion, inside DP. My assistant bounces out all the time-stamped SD2 files from DP and gives them to the music editor. We have found this to be the most efficient workflow
