Pro Tools

Purpose: 

Pro Tools is an audio creation and production software. With Pro Tools it is possible to compose, record, edit, and mix music or sound for picture — all within one system.

Features: 

• over 70 groundbreaking virtual instruments, effects, and utility plug-ins
• over 8 GB of audio loops
• view, edit, arrange and print MIDI data as music notation
• Supports files up to 4 GB

A&H use case 1 description: 
The “Activated Space: the transformation of internal spaces to become audible and interactive” project has used Pro tools to transfer Audio content and to encode Audio for 5.1 into Dolby Digital (AC3) at 640 kbps through SmartCode Pro.
Creator: 
Digidesign
Publisher: 
Digidesign
Data structuring and enhancement: 
Sound compression
Sound editing
Sound encoding
Sound encoding - MIDI
Specifications: 
MPEG-1 Audio Layer 3 (MP3)
Audio Interchange File Format (AIFF)
WAV
SDII
Data capture: 
Sound generation
Sound recording
Music recognition
Software/programming languages used: 
ProTools
Pro Tools
Data analysis: 
Sound analysis
Discipline: 
Music
Practice-led research: 
Audio mixing
Sound generation
Sound recording
Sound editing
Alternate tool(s): 

Cubase, Reaper, Nuendo

Tags: 
Audio mixing
Sound generation
Sound editing
audio recording
Platform: 
Microsoft Windows
Mac OS X
Licence: 
Proprietary
lifecycleStage: 
creation
Submitted by Valentina Asciutti on Thu, 17/06/2010 - 14:28

Comments

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified)
on Mon, 21/06/2010 - 17:30

Logic Pro is another sound editing tool that maybe more appropriate for certain situations.