She was the first music editor at Universal Studios to design a digital
workstation and record multi-track music directly to disk. Her initial
system was tested on Columbo and successfully used to construct the
temp score and subsequently to record, edit and dub David Newman's
final score for the "The Flintstones" in 1994. Well known scoring
mixer, Armin Steiner was an invaluable enthusiast throughout the entire
initial process, when Digidesign had little knowledge of the demands of
audio recording for film and could offer little technical support. Two
years later, inspired by the success of Ms. Higgins pioneering work,
Universal invested in several digital audio workstations for their
sound effects department, albeit not Digidesign's Pro-Tools. Over the
years however, Universal's Sound Department eliminated all their
initial workstations, which proved over time to be less accepted in the
marketplace, and switching entirely to Pro-Tools, the only digital
system that she believed would change the face of audio recording, and
indeed it has. Digidesign's Pro-Tools system is now the standard
environment for every music editor working in film today.
