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Pro Tools beta adds Lion support

by Michael Grothaus (Aug 18th, 2011)

Pro Tools is the industry-standard audio creation and production software used in the music and entertainment industries. Traditionally, Pro Tools takes its sweet time to be updated to work on newer OSs, but today Avid has released a Pro Tools 9.0.5 beta, which adds support for OS X 10.7 Lion. ...

Count The Beats: Interview with a mixing engineer

by Matt Tinsley (Dec 6th, 2009)

In the last year I've spent a fair amount of time doing some recordings. In particular, I've been working on some of my own material. Having invested a large amount of time and money into pre production and the actual recording sessions, what started out as a small bedroom demo soon escalated into ...

Count The Beats: Logic Studio, are you in love? (Poll)

by Matt Tinsley (Nov 16th, 2009)

Here at TUAW, we've not given Apple's Logic Studio a great deal of coverage recently. In particular, back in July 2009, Apple released its latest iteration of the popular music production software, Logic Pro 9 (alongside the upgrade to all its various virtual studio components too), and not much has ...

Count The Beats: Interview with a film & TV composer

by Matt Tinsley (Oct 13th, 2009)

If you've ever played Gears of War 2 (who hasn't), or watched Desperate Housewives (we know you secretly love Mrs Van De Kamp), then chances are you've heard music composed by Pieter A. Schlosser from PaaxMusic in Los Angeles. Pieter's been in the music business for the last five years working ...

Pro Tools LE controlled with an iPhone

by Mat Lu (Dec 12th, 2007)

According to Create Digital Music an experienced Pro Tools developer named Alex le Lievre has managed to hack together a Pro Tools LE remote using his iPhone. As you can see from the above video the remote allows him to control Pro Tools and get live feedback from it on an iPhone or iPod touch. ...

Digidesign Pro Tools 7.3

by Laurie A. Duncan (Dec 6th, 2006)

Digidesign is now shipping Pro Tools 7.3, an update to the de facto standard in professional audio recording and mixing software. The new release delivers feature and speed enhancements for Pro Tools|HD, Pro Tools LE, and Pro Tools M-Powered systems, and includes new music composition tools, ...

Digidesign Releases ProTools HD Update for Tiger

by C.K. Sample, III (May 27th, 2005)

Digidesign has released Pro Tools TDM 6.9.2 update, which brings Tiger support to the Pro Tools 6.9 feature set. Unfortunately, this update is "for Pro Tools|HD systems only. Future Pro Tools software releases will support Pro Tools LE systems and Pro Tools M-Powered systems on Mac OS X ...

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