- Get the flexibility of using Pro Tools 9 with your favorite Avid audio interface or third-party Core Audio-
- Develop larger, more complex projects, with up to 96 or 192* simultaneous audio tracks, 128 instrument tracks,
- Be more creative with coveted professional tools Work efficiently and get the best sonic results with Automatic Delay Compensation,
- Team up with other creators, editors, and mixers easily - with built-in OMF/AAF/MXF file interchange support,
- Get more options to grab hold of your mix Along with C|24 and ICON*,
- ASIO-compatible interface - or use Pro Tools 9 completely standalone for easy on-the-go creation.
- 512 MIDI tracks, 256 internal busses, and 160 aux tracks.
- You can now use Avid Artist Series and Pro Series consoles and controllers to enhance your editing and mixing workflow,
- You can exchange projects created in other audio and video software with Pro Tools and vice-versa.
- Multitrack Beat Detective, full Import Session Data dialog, and other separately priced add-ons - now standard.
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Open yourself to the possibilities. Pro Tools 9 redefines the world’s most popular, most advanced music and audio production platform with a completely re-architected, open version of Pro Tools software, giving you what you asked for—and so much more. Work with an audio interface—or without. Create bigger, better-sounding mixes with more tracks, Automatic Delay Compensation, and other pro features included as standard. Open your workflow to projects created in other audio and video software—and to the entire Avid Artist Series and Pro Series (formerly Euphonix) console/controller line. With Pro Tools 9, you can compose, record, sequence, edit, and mix the way you want—in more ways than ever.
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20 of 22 people found the following review helpful
(Just to put a cork in it, I am changing my rating to one star since Avid just came out with Pro Tools 10 without patching any of the problems that caused me to write this review. Maybe they fixed all the problems, who knows? If I want to find out I'll have to fork over $300 for an upgrade, which I will not be doing for reasons that are obvious from reading the review below. As of this writing they have yet to announce a 64-bit build).
(FYI i purchased PT MP/8 from Amazon and upgraded to PT9 directly through Avid)
Yes, PT is the de facto standard among studios. Yes, PT is very rich in cool and useful features. Yes, with version 9 Avid has finally un-crippled Pro Tools so that it works with any interface and unlocks features previously available only to users of their dedicated-hardware TDM version (of course these features and the ability to work with any interface have generally been available in competitors' products).
But the sad truth is that the big studios that use Pro Tools use it on Mac-based systems with tens of thousands of dollars worth of specialized TDM hardware, and they have service contracts with technicians who keep it configured and running smoothly.
As a PC user running PT9 on native hardware, I have found Pro Tools to be extremely buggy. I installed PT clean on a new PC, and followed the (several pages of) hardware guidelines for setting up the box so that PT would be happy. I am using a new Avid interface. The virtual instruments I use are limited to either Pro Tools Instrument Expansion (PTIE) and Native Instruments Komplete (the latter of which never hangs or crashes under other hosts). Nonetheless, I have experienced frequent crashes and hangs. In particular, I can reliably expect that when I close PT down and try to restart it I get a message the "Pro Tools did not close properly and your system will need to be restarted." Likewise, Pro Tools intermittently fails to recognize my licenses for PTIE's Structure, and will crash if I open up too many virtual instrument tracks. Users who have invested in a 64-bit system should be aware that PT9 is a 32-bit product, by the way.
I have given PT9 a solid try but I have found that it is too unreliable for recording. I also own and use Ableton Live Suite (also limited to 32 bit), Reason/Record, FL Studio 10 (Producer), and Reaper. None of these products have the bugginess / crashing problems that PT9 has.
If you just want to learn Pro Tools, then getting PT9 for the PC is an OK choice. But if you really want to use it you may have to get a Mac (I can't absolutely vouch for this, but on the DUC message board I do not see Mac users complaining about these things the same way PC users do). If you can't afford to invest in a Mac, then you should probably check out Reaper, which despite its criminally low price continues to amaze me as I discover its capabilities.
Note that there is another user who gave this product a 5-star review, but that person is obviously a Mac user since their go-to DAW is Logic, which is a Mac-only product.
(FYI i purchased PT MP/8 from Amazon and upgraded to PT9 directly through Avid)
Yes, PT is the de facto standard among studios. Yes, PT is very rich in cool and useful features. Yes, with version 9 Avid has finally un-crippled Pro Tools so that it works with any interface and unlocks features previously available only to users of their dedicated-hardware TDM version (of course these features and the ability to work with any interface have generally been available in competitors' products).
But the sad truth is that the big studios that use Pro Tools use it on Mac-based systems with tens of thousands of dollars worth of specialized TDM hardware, and they have service contracts with technicians who keep it configured and running smoothly.
As a PC user running PT9 on native hardware, I have found Pro Tools to be extremely buggy. I installed PT clean on a new PC, and followed the (several pages of) hardware guidelines for setting up the box so that PT would be happy. I am using a new Avid interface. The virtual instruments I use are limited to either Pro Tools Instrument Expansion (PTIE) and Native Instruments Komplete (the latter of which never hangs or crashes under other hosts). Nonetheless, I have experienced frequent crashes and hangs. In particular, I can reliably expect that when I close PT down and try to restart it I get a message the "Pro Tools did not close properly and your system will need to be restarted." Likewise, Pro Tools intermittently fails to recognize my licenses for PTIE's Structure, and will crash if I open up too many virtual instrument tracks. Users who have invested in a 64-bit system should be aware that PT9 is a 32-bit product, by the way.
I have given PT9 a solid try but I have found that it is too unreliable for recording. I also own and use Ableton Live Suite (also limited to 32 bit), Reason/Record, FL Studio 10 (Producer), and Reaper. None of these products have the bugginess / crashing problems that PT9 has.
If you just want to learn Pro Tools, then getting PT9 for the PC is an OK choice. But if you really want to use it you may have to get a Mac (I can't absolutely vouch for this, but on the DUC message board I do not see Mac users complaining about these things the same way PC users do). If you can't afford to invest in a Mac, then you should probably check out Reaper, which despite its criminally low price continues to amaze me as I discover its capabilities.
Note that there is another user who gave this product a 5-star review, but that person is obviously a Mac user since their go-to DAW is Logic, which is a Mac-only product.
6 of 7 people found the following review helpful
By Nick Heller
I am a pc user, and have used various versions of cubase for the past ten years. i like cubase a lot but so many people i work with use pro tools, so i decided when i built my new desktop id get pro tools 9... this was right when it was released. first of all, i set up windows 7 64 bit with no problems, installed chrome and the internet was up and running, then i installed protools. right after installing, my internet stopped working. when installing the avid ethernet support, the program installs a bunch of conflicting ports that made my internet completely stop. their tech support was NO help at all, and after days of troubleshooting i finally got things working but i had to format my drive and reinstall windows to get things back to normal. furthermore, i bought this product because it said compatible with all focusrite products... i have the white focusrite sapphire and suprise! its not compatible (false advertising?), so instead of having those preamps which i love, i had to go buy a m-audio fast track POS because you cant run the software unless there is an asio device that is supported by avid. unstable RTAS compatibility, illegal operations every 5 minutes, any creative flow i got into would be cut short by glitches.
long story short, i am a poor student who spent most of his money on protools because i thought i was getting the same thing as the mac version, but all i got was a big hole in my pocket and hours of troubleshooting which yielded a useless piece of software that screwed up my whole system. i am so upset by this whole ordeal and insulted by fact that avid got 600 dollars of mine and i got something from avid that should never have been allowed to be sold to the public, i will be never go avid again.
long story short, i am a poor student who spent most of his money on protools because i thought i was getting the same thing as the mac version, but all i got was a big hole in my pocket and hours of troubleshooting which yielded a useless piece of software that screwed up my whole system. i am so upset by this whole ordeal and insulted by fact that avid got 600 dollars of mine and i got something from avid that should never have been allowed to be sold to the public, i will be never go avid again.
12 of 16 people found the following review helpful
By omletie
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What can I say? Pro Tools has been the choice of many studios including small home based ones like mine. If your the one on the other side of the glass recording, say a band or any artist, then Pro Tools is the perfect all in one app. For myself I am more of a solo artist creating beats and instrumentals. Personally I prefer Logic over Pro Tools for this because the ease of use but still, Pro Tools can deliver. It all depends on how you want your workflow to be. I recommend purchasing the pro tools 9 text book if you have never touched the program before. Once you get a hang of the keyboard shortcuts, you'll be producing in no time.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
5.0 out of 5 stars
Pro tools for mac ONLY
AS virtually any Music business pro will tell you, NOBODY uses Pro Tools on Windows.
On a Mac system with sufficient RAM it is extremely solid and robust. Read more
On a Mac system with sufficient RAM it is extremely solid and robust. Read more
Published 16 months ago by Trajan 2448
1.0 out of 5 stars
Not designed for PC users
I've been a professional musician for nearly 30 years and have been involved in audio engineering since 1984. Read more
Published 17 months ago by Cincop8
1.0 out of 5 stars
Horrible for the PC
Pro Tools is plagued with problems on the PC platform. I have a Windows 7 64-bit computer with 4 cores and 6 GB of memory. Read more
Published 17 months ago by Andrew E McKendrick
4.0 out of 5 stars
Pro Tools in the real world
First let me say that I have no experience with other DAWs. However, at the start I had no experience with any music equipment whatsoever, so I feel this is an objective... Read more
Published 18 months ago by C. Geyer
1.0 out of 5 stars
Horrible on PC - AVID customer service non existent
Can't use it for a half an hour without some technical issue. Worse customer service is nonexistent. Read more
Published 20 months ago by R. Gammie
