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ENSONIQ PARIS COMPLETE SYSTEM - $1,999 (Eugene)
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So it was with audio in the Marketing battle between PROTOOLS and PARIS. Paris was by far the superior sound, rivaling the sound of two-inch recording tape and Trident mixing consoles, while protools sounded brittle. PARIS encourages you to drive it hard, into the red, and sounds like two-inch tape on a STUDER machine. PROTOOLS won the Marketing war, and became the standard for pro studios around the world. PARIS fell by the wayside. The creator and owner of PARIS fell by the wayside, and passed away at an early age, as the company began to fade.
PARIS runs on MAC or Windows. It runs on older WINDOWS operating systems. The computer with this system is running WINDOWS MILLENIUM. It has never been connected to the internet. I have a disk of Windows Millenium in case of software issues. People have since figured out how to operate PARIS on more recent versions of WINDOWS, but I am not that much of a computer whiz to deal with that. The original PARIS does not know how to talk to present-day Windows.
The computer has 4 EDS 1000 PCI digital processing cards. Each EDS 1000 supports 16 tracks of high-quality digital recording and playback as well as DSP EQ and effects. Thus the 4 EDS 1000's collectively will run 64 Tracks of hardware playback. In addition to the DPS hardware playback, you can operate up to 128 tracks by doing 64 tracks through the DPS hardware cards, and 64 more tracks natively/virtually. These EDS 1000 cards sold for $1,998.00 each.
Also loaded in the computer is a Universal Audio UAD-1 PCI card, which can run UAD-powered plugins.
The computer has a dual-output video card, so you can have two screens to spread the view over more mixer channels or audio editing strips. You can edit automation in PARIS.
There are two Control 16 units, which have 16 volume faders and one master fader on each. These can be assigned to different groups of tracks, so as to have control over up to 128 tracks. The jog wheel and fast-forward and rewind controls for the recording transport are awesome. They really are so much easier to work with than having to mouse everything while editing.
There are two MEC units (Modular Expansion Chassis) that can accept PARIS ENSONIC plug-in cards.
These MECS each have 4 analog inputs and 4 analog outputs at 20 bits, as well as SPDIF in and SPDIF out and connect to the Control 16 units.
One of the MECS has an 8 in and 8 out ADAT/Lightpipe card, an 8-in 24 bit TRS input card, and an 8-out 24 bit TRS output card.
The second MEC has an 8 input 24 bit TRS card.
This rig sold for about 15 grand back in the day and was designed to make commercial records. I had it synced-up to another computer via midi-timepiece that ran Cakewalk for midi.
The UAD-1 card was about a grand, as well.
Tower computer included. I have all of the original PARIS cartons.