Pro Tools: “The” Music Software
Today as never before and changing the history of music, using the software Pro Tools allows musicians to enjoy at home a professional recording studio and its benefits.
Pro Tools is a digital audio workstation software, developed and manufactured by Avid Technology. To work properly you only need a computer, either Microsoft Windows or Mac OS operating systems, an interface (M Box or Rack Factory), speakers, microphones, and electronic stuff. Pro Tools is widely used by musicians in all levels and professionals throughout the audio industries for recording and editing in music productions. A few years ago, it was almost impossible to have access to record a musical production in a professional studio because of the high costs of live musicians, the sound engineer and all expenses are involve in a recording; However, Pro Tools appeared not just to save time and money by doing almost everything at home but also to take us anywhere in the world with just one click on a computer. The history of Pro Tools started when two graduated students from Berkeley University of California, Peter Gotcher and Evan Brooks (majored in electrical engineering and computer science), dare to apply their knowledge to the music by creating specialized programs for musicians that were easy to understand and use. They have been developing several versions during the years 1984 to 2010.
The first Pro Tools version started in 1984 as “Sound Designer,” a monophonic/stereophonic/playback audio file format. It was originally designed to edit sounds for the Emulator sampling keyboard, an electronic musical instrument similar in some aspects to a synthesizer that uses recordings or samples of sounds pre-loaded into it. Norm...
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... of collective devices, allowing the use of more than one interface at the same time. This can also be achieved on a PC by using the third party application. Pro Tools 9 uses iLok for copy protection. Pro Tools 9 is the first version to have one unified installer for the software. It Works with an audio interface or without by creating bigger, better sounding mixes with more tracks. With Pro Tools 9, almost everyone can record, compose, edit, sequence and mix in more ways than ever.
In conclusion, the world of music has been completely revolutionized by this software and has forced the professional musician, whether or not to take home a recording studio to do pre-production and experience what that was almost impossible to think that was close at hand. With Pro Tools can say that any further advance of technology may come to light in the not too distant future.
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...d, including animation, VFX, audio editing, graphic designing capabilities and so much more. It also speedily loads up and slices through both audio video with ease, and can easily fix flaws and inconsistencies with the lighting, footage and audio making this software truly elite. In addition to that, this software’s apps can make use of green screen technology, and can also insert SFX and VFX into our films, making it versatile for use both in front of the green screen and on live shots. Finally, it can handle 4K resolution—as well as many lower resolutions—which means it is compatible with our cameras.
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When it comes to recording in a modern day environment DAW’s (digital audio workstation) are an essential piece of equipment if professional standard results are desired. Although DAW’s are considered a modern technological advancement the first attempt at a DAW was in 1977 and it came from Dr. Tom Stockham’s Soundstream (See references for full description) digital system. It had very powerful editing capabilities and for its time a very advanced crossfader but was still primitive compared to today’s standard. At this moment there are 100’s of DAW’s on the market but arguably there some obvious leaders. Avid’s Pro Tools has been the go to DAW for any professional studio for the past 20 years and although there have been rumors of Avid going out of business and the features in Pro Tools becoming dated, Pro Tools is still a viable option for studios worldwide. Logic Pro has risen to the fore-front of the industry in recent years due to its easy to use interface that is possible of producing professional results. Ableton Live strays away from a hardware instrument music environment to cater for electronic music users. Audio to MIDI is a main focus along with the critically acclaimed Max for Live used for live performances by many current EDM artists. Each individual DAW has its own pros and cons and comparing these can highlight which DAW is the best for what task.
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Our life is a fantastic journey made all the better with great music. If you’ve got a huge collection of music and playlists, you may want to transfer them to various devices, edit the track and album information and (most importantly) be able to play them whenever you want. I put together a list of the top music management software solutions to help you to customize your music library.
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