Are FX racks and keyboards Y2K complaint?

[critter]

I work in I.S. and lately we've been playing the year 2000 compliant game. To think about what could might not be Y2K compliant. And we went through the regular "mission critical" things such as air control towers, banks, healthcare technology (ie bloodbanks) produce chains, VCRS, stereos/dats and cars etc; and then it dawned on me. Are products in the music industry compliant? I started wondering about the various FX racks out there and I want to know if my gear is going to croak because it can't process the date. Please let me know.

[joules]

The only place you're going to be looking at this possibility is in mixing automation systems, sequencers, and DAW's.

Most effects dont even know what time it is , and the ones that do dont need to. most mixes I've been involved in very rarely get stamped with the correct date, as somone has the computer working in 1902 or somthing like that, as the process of audio production is not directly date related there should be less problems on the Y2K front, very few people care if the data for their mix is stamped with the correct year Its normaly labled ["title" dirty mix 2 more phaser, more 100Hz on Hi Hat USE THIS ONE!!!] or somthing like that, so in reality the average studio wont stop at year 2000 and if it does then someone will just turn the clocks back a few years and carry on recording

The only big threat is in the places where sound librarys are used and held in a database or other filing system.

The main place where the studios should seriously worry is in the office where the bookings computer may start to loose bookings, However studios being studios arround 80% are probably still writing the bookings on the year planner as the office PC is probably running Quake in the TV room!

[TechSupt]

As far as Digidesign producst and the Y2K issue goes, there are no year 2000 conflicts that we are aware of with Digidesign products. None of our software uses any date related functions aside from basic date stamping done by the Mac OS. As long as the Mac OS can handle year 2000, current Digidesign software should also be fine with the change over.

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