But you might never know that from looking at its warehouse shelves. The most common file formats used by the Hollywood film editorial community are supported by the MM Series machines, such as ProTools and WaveFrame. The MM Series machines are the only ones that can easily read and write to these formats. The day is coming soon when the entire post production process will remain in the digital domain, and MM Series software upgrades are keeping in line with this trend. Levy adds that now, with the MM Series' capability to read Akai and Fairlight file formats, their versatility has become even more apparent on the film dubbing stage.
Flexibility is what it all comes down to.
You can take a drive straight from an editor's ProTools workstation, mount it on an MM Series machine, load tracks and go. Since the MMR-8 can also record in DAW formats, it has also found applications in Foley and ADR, and often acts as a target machine for surround mixing systems.