Product Description

Digidesign Pro Tools 8 is better than ever, featuring a gorgeous new interface, dozens of new plug-ins, five new virtual instruments, exciting new scoring and MIDI features, more editing and mixing capabilities, improved ease of use, and enhanced performance. Get the most comprehensive music and sound creation features and functionality, and the proven, dedicated platform for world-class audio production‐all in a single application. Sporting a sleek new look, Pro Tools 8 is as easy on the eyes as it is to use. All of the Pro Tools functionality you know and love is still in place but with some subtle enhancements, more customizability, and easier access to editing options than ever before. Customize the toolbar the way you want. Tile or cascade your window arrangement. Change the color of your channel strips, tracks, regions, and more. Navigate through sessions quickly using the Universe view. And with the QuickStart dialog, you can jump right into an existing session, create a new session from scratch, or start from a session template.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #6951 in Musical Instruments
• Brand: Digidesign
• Model: 9920-60066-00
• Dimensions: .39" h x 5.51" w x 7.48" l,

Features

• Beautiful, redesigned interface with new enhancements and customizability
• Five new groundbreaking virtual instruments for music creation
• Comprehensive collection of professional sound-processing plug-ins, plus 20 new effects
• Get up to 3x more audio tracks on Pro Tools LE and M-Powered systems
• QuickTime HD support on Mac OS X-based systems

Customer Reviews

powerful but picky
Protools is a powerful tool for editing music but can be rather picky in terms of the hardware it needs. Also, other software that is running on the computer can affect its performance, and it has to be "tweaked" to run efficiently. I'm not expert on it, but I've got it running so I can accomplish most of what I want to do. However, I use the Cubase that came with my Yamaha keyboard to do midi orchestrations.

When I upgraded to PT 8 I could no longer use my Ivory piano software, which I had used without difficulty prior to the upgrade. Bummer. When I tried reinstalling the Ivory, I lost all my presets. It still didn't work, and Digidesign support didn't have an answer other than telling me my hardware must not be compatible (keep in mind, it worked before the upgrade). Now I use Cubase for all my midi programming, and upload the wave files to Protools for further editing, if I need to.

There is no way I could have foreseen the software problems, but you just have to be careful with Protools because it is a very picky program. But I use it, and I like it overall. Just can't give it 5 stars.