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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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