I've been stewing on William's post for a few days, and I do feel some trepidation about responding, but I think it is necessary. I think his comment is a bit of a "cut and run", and is, I believe, uninformed and misleading. It is with caution and the intention of diplomacy that I respond here.
Also, I'll note that I prefer to come to this forum as myself, rather than a representative of my employer. I have no secrets to hide regarding my position or work, but I do not wish to become a spokesman for the school in my spare time. Since this forum's posts show up in Google searches, I generally don't want to discuss these things.
However, we are not a school of "Pro Tools Operators". We use Pro Tools as much as any other professional facility (since it is the de facto "industry standard"), and Logic is gaining quite a bit of popularity here. Our Studer 2" machines see quite a bit of use, especially by the more advanced students who are impressed with the sound and perhaps the mystique of tape. We have two large-format consoles (an SSL and an API), so a good amount of work is done "outside the box". Also, we are not an "engineering" school. Rather, the concept was to focus on music production itself as an art form and to also give students the business background to fend for themselves. We are not teaching them ProTools and tossing them out into the wild! We have graduates working in publishing, starting clubs, engineering in studios and broadcast facilities, doing A&R, writing music criticism as well as writing, arranging and performing music... all over the world.
Our faculty is an extremely dedicated and well-rounded group of talent, including Jim Anderson (an amazing engineer and AES President, etc, etc), Nick Sansano (Sonic Youth, Public Enemy, Soul Coughing...), Bob Power, Kevin Killen, Tony Maserati, Robert Christgau, Vivien Goldman (a great writer and fascinating person), Nelson George, "Prince" Charles Alexander, Errol Kolosine, Allan Kozinn, Alan Silverman and so many more incredible people. I feel very lucky to be here, to get to work with the equipment I maintain, to interact with our super-talented students and to be in the midst of a constant stream of music and creativity. ProTools is a very small fraction of what we do here, and I want to make that very clear.
