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This is an old revision of HomePage made by ParisNg on 2008-04-04 18:11:55.
Welcome to the PARIS Wiki!
This site is dedicated to information pertaining to the brilliant but now-defunct PARIS DAW, with a "user's perspective" eye towards collecting all available information and lore into one central easy-to-use crosslinked location.
The PARIS Wiki is a private, community-driven initiative; it is not in any way associated with the former Ensoniq corporation or with Intelligent Devices, the former makers of the PARIS software.
Purpose:
While browsing available PARIS resources online recently, I came across web pages with PARIS links where fully half the links were dead. I realized the information is gradually going dark, and resolved to find a method to assemble the remaining info in one crosslinked location. This happened to coincide with a notice from my hosting service that they now supported creating your own Wiki site; voila, the PARIS Wiki was born.
It would be my hope that this Wiki will evolve over time to become an online reference tool that will permit users to organize insights, tips, troubleshooting and "best practices" for the remaining enthusiasts, and (considering the "bang for buck" used PARS rigs deliver) perhaps even new converts. My vision for it includes things like - putting all the error codes and messages we've ever seen into one immediately searchable database (naturally including whatever we know or speculate about their causes and workarounds); exchanging "best practices" for workflow, getting all the tedious-to-repeat info about things like "how to configure a new PARIS install on XP" or "how to use the patchbay to make a talkback setup" written one time in one place.
Users of the PARIS Wiki are encouraged to add pages and edit existing ones. There's a brief tutorial on how to edit and link and create new pages ParisWikiTut over here; believe me, if you can work PARIS, you'll have no problem with this. It's easy, and - dare I say it? - addictive fun.
I'd ask only that you aim for something in the ballpark of "technical writing" style, stick to PARIS or closely related issues, and adhere to the general principle of "NPOV"; when in doubt, go with facts over opinions - if something is arguable (ie "we surmise but we don't have conclusive data", let's say "whether it has analog modeling circuitry") then simply include both sides of the argument, or at least try to indicate there's a difference of opinion.
If there is a reasonable level of community interest (naturally bearing in mind the small size of the community) as expressed by contribution to the body of information, I'll keep it going. I have no problem serving this for at least the next 18 months (the duration of my current "lease" on my little place on the Internet); depending on how popular it is, perhaps beyond that and into the future. I have a fair bit of bandwidth, so I really can't see this happening, but if bandwidth somehow soars out of control and becomes drainingly high, I'll let y'all know so the Wiki can be served elsewhere. If it turns out to be just me interested in doing it, I'll still consider a worthwhile exercise for myself as a way of collecting and organizing the available info. But it's intended to be my gift to the community, and what becomes of it besides that will largely be up to you.
Terms of Use:
As site admin, I reserve the editorial right to maintain standards of substance, format etc. Copyrighted material may not be posted here.
A word to hackers:
Malicious deletion of material, insertion of false or defamatory material, links to illegal or offensive material will be sanctioned. At the minimum they will receive an editorial caution, moving through IP banning; if they're sufficiently persistent or malicious they will be reported as a crime. The penalties for "hacking" are severe. Please play nicely.
Tutorials on how to do this, including videos, are available here. But essentially, the process is very simple, and takes advantage of an extremely cool feature called CamelCase words. You'll see that format repeated many times here.
CamelCase words actually have a coded meaning to the WIKI: capitalization in both the beginning and the middle of the word (I'm guessing that's the camel's "hump") tells the software it's a page topic - and so it will either automatically create a hyperlink to the page with that title if it exists - or automatically and obligingly *create a new page and save it* if it doesn't.
So look down the PageIndex list of existing pages before you create a new one; we don't need both, say, a ChuckDuffy and a ChuCkduffy page with different info, it'll just get to be a mess.
Your work is saved automatically if you hit "store". If you want to play around with formatting options, there's a place called the SandBox on the site that will let you experiment without harm.
The hyperlinks with the lines underneath are to the existing pages I've made. The hyperlinks with dashes underneath are pages that have yet to be created. . When you open the editor, a toolbar will appear at the top that gives you further options. This Wiki supports lots of features like embedded images etc, so have fun!
If you have PARIS info you feel like contributing, go for it!
INDEX:
ParisIntro An Introduction to PARIS
ParisHist History
ParisSonics Sonics
SetupConfig PARIS Setup and Configuration
ParisWind Main Windows
BasicUse Basic Use
SessionTracking Sessions: Tracking
SessionEdit Sessions: Editing
SessionMix Sessions: Mixing
SessionMast Sessions: Mastering
AdvancedUse Advanced Use
ParisPatch Patchbay
ParisAut Automation
BugsTroubleshooting Bugs and Troubleshooting
ParisSignalflow Signal Flow
