Hi. it depends on your needs and your budget. you don't just buy the software. You need an approved piece of hardware as well to use pro tools.
There are three main flavors of pro tools. Pro tools le, pro tools m powered, and, pro tools hd. Pro tools le uses various avid/digidesign USB and firewire interfaces like the m box, 003r, 003, etc. Pro tools m powered uses m audio and Mackie interfaces including the pro fire, project mix, onyx 16-4-2, etc. Pro tools hd uses high end hardware consisting of pci cards, interfaces, and other components. The main differences besides the I/O options are the number of tracks in a session, and, sample rate. Also with hd, you can use the pci hardware to do processing which would free up CPU. A decent I mac or mac book pro would be fine for pro tools le and m powered, as long as you have a second hard drive you can use, like an external firewire drive. For pro tools hd, you need a mac pro desktop, or, a mac book pro with a pci express card slot and an external case to mount the pci cards in... As far as cost, you're looking at minimum, $300 and up. Pro tools le or m powered are the two you'll probably want to investigate. Chec out sweetwater or musicians friend etc to read up on specs and prices. Cameron. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Tony Bernedal Sent: Saturday, October 16, 2010 11:22 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Some stuff I did with pro tools. Hi music lovers. What is the right version to get of protools. I saw a lot of options on the site but I guess it's the protools software I should get. Do you know the cost for the software. regards Tony Med vänlig hälsning Tony Bernedal [email protected] Blogg samt tips och trix om it, datorer och andra tekniska prylar för synskadade www.tbteknik.se 16 okt 2010 kl. 14.08 skrev Gary Readfern-Gray: > Hi Kevin, > > just seen this thread, Blabber's tight, good job. I have PT 8 but haven't done much with it because I've been using Logic I'll deffinately take another look now having heard that. Can you edit MIDI accessibly in PT or at least quantize it? from the jingles sounds like you can. > > On 26 Sep 2010, at 23:54, Kevin Reeves wrote: > >> Hey folks. Just wanted to throw out a quick link to a file containing 2 jingles I just completed with Pro Tools 8, now accessible with Voiceover. I invite you to take a listen. All the sequencing, tracking, editing, mixing, and mastering was done in Pro Tools. A great deal of the sounds used were instruments that shipped with Pro Tools, except for the guitars and drums found in the MyMac Theme. Hope you guys enjoy these. >> >> http://www.kevinreeves.net/Themes.zip >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. >> For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
