Let's see... SSL's proprietary rig had zero-crossing editing onboard.
Digidesign's proprietary Sound Designer did not, but it was a basket case anyway. We bought a pair for $70k each and a year later Digi came back and said, "We're discontinuing Sound Designer. If you want to continue, you need to buy to our new product, Pro Tools, " with software and hardware priced at $70k per station. Management wasn't about to shell out again within a single year so we went to...
Fairlight MFX3. Their proprietary rig had zero-crossing editing and absolute zero problems with latency. However, in five years they went bankrupt. Our large-format console manufacturers suggested we forego ProTools at that juncture because at that time they had extensive latency problems that made it impossible to mix in the box because as you added processing, the stereo mix would begin to fold up to money and phase smear. The only commercial work station that had utterly conquered latency and had zero crossing editing was...
Steinberg Nuendo, so we went with it. It has served us excellently for twenty years.
Of course, ProTools had matured into the industry standard, but not without pulling the "upgrade both software and hardware at full retail or be dead-ended" trick twice more.
Bob
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