Pro Tools is a digital audio workstation developed and released by Avid Technology for Microsoft Windows and macOS.
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17 Facts About Pro Tools
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Pro Tools operates both as standalone software and in conjunction with a range of external analog-to-digital converters and PCIe cards with on-board digital signal processors .
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Pro Tools has incorporated video editing capabilities, so users can import and manipulate high-definition video file formats such as XDCAM, MJPG-A, PhotoJPG, DV25, QuickTime, and more.
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Pro Tools was developed by UC Berkeley graduates Evan Brooks, who majored in electrical engineering and computer science, and Peter Gotcher.
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Sound Pro Tools was bundled with Sound Designer II software, which was, at this time, a simple mono or stereo audio editor running on Mac SE or Mac II; digital audio acquisition from DAT was possible.
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Pro Tools relied on Digidesign's Audiomedia card, mounting one Motorola 56001 processor with a clock rate of 22.
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Pro Tools 5 saw two substantial software developments: extended MIDI functionality and integration in 1999 and the introduction of surround sound mixing and multichannel plug-ins—up to the 7.
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Migration from traditional, tape-based analog studio technology to the Pro Tools platform took place within the industry: Ricky Martin's "Livin' la Vida Loca" was the first Billboard Hot 100 number-one single to be recorded, edited, and mixed entirely within the Pro Tools environment, allowing a more meticulous and effortless editing workflow .
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Pro Tools LE, first introduced and distributed in 1999 with the Digi 001 interface, was a specific Pro Tools version in which the signal processing entirely relied on the host CPU.
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The "Complete Production Toolkit", introduced with Pro Tools 8, added support for surround mixing and 128 tracks .
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Pro Tools 9, released in November 2010, dropped the requirement of proprietary hardware to run the software.
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Notable software features introduced with Pro Tools 10 were editable clip-based gain automation, the ability to load the session's audio data into RAM to improve transport responsiveness, quadrupled Automatic Delay Compensation length, audio fades processed in real-time, timeline length extended to 24 hours, support for 32-bit float audio and mixed audio formats within the session, and the addition of Avid Channel Strip plug-in .
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Pro Tools 11, released in June 2013, switched from 32-bit to 64-bit software architecture with new audio and video engines, enabling the application and plug-ins to fully take advantage of system memory.
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Pro Tools workflow is organized into two main windows: the timeline is shown in the Edit window, while the mixer is shown in the Mix window.
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Pro Tools reads embedded metadata in media files to manage multichannel recordings made by field recorders in production sound.
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Pro Tools software is available in three subscription-based paid versions and one free version .
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Pro Tools Dock was an iPad-based control surface running Pro Tools Control software.
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