Digidesign ProTools

There are quite a few of us that post on here that use Pro Tools. You cannot use Pro tools with out hardware, You will need an Mbox, 001,002, TDM,HD system to be able to use the software.

I wish that was me lol. Its just a pic I found online.

Yeah it’s all about the hardware, just did a mix on my Mix+ system 52 Tracks of audio about 100 bands of eq and lots of compressors, CPU usage… 5%

That says it all

thecutter wrote:

[quote quote="DJ_Brady":22xp6ux8]I would have thought it would be hard to learn since the pros use it, I thought you would need qualifications,course learning the code and stuff for it.

As has been said it isn’t that hard to use pro tools you just need to understand the theory behind music production. Once you’ve done that you can pretty much figure out how to use any production software with practice.

Pro Tools does have certification programs you can take to become a Certified Pro Tools guru. I beleive there are 4-6 levels of certification. I have been told by friends who are working on getting certified that it is not easy. I have thought about getting certified myself. If you are an audio engineer and you are pro tools certified you are in a great situation to make some serious money.[/quote:22xp6ux8]

I dunno about where you are but here there is only one school offering digidesign certification and they charge $25000 for one year and your certification expires after a year, I think you would be better off to take some of the money and go do a Sound Engineering course somewhere that includes some protools but makes sound the focus, then once you have a better idea what you’re going to do with it, take you $15000 change and buy yourself a nice protools system.

That said if all you want to do is write music then you’ll find protools a bit clunky as it is an engineers environment, you might be better off with something like Live or Logic.

smart1123 wrote:

[quote quote="thecutter":1vzzmboo][quote quote="DJ_Brady":1vzzmboo]I would have thought it would be hard to learn since the pros use it, I thought you would need qualifications,course learning the code and stuff for it.

As has been said it isn’t that hard to use pro tools you just need to understand the theory behind music production. Once you’ve done that you can pretty much figure out how to use any production software with practice.

Pro Tools does have certification programs you can take to become a Certified Pro Tools guru. I beleive there are 4-6 levels of certification. I have been told by friends who are working on getting certified that it is not easy. I have thought about getting certified myself. If you are an audio engineer and you are pro tools certified you are in a great situation to make some serious money.[/quote:1vzzmboo]

I dunno about where you are but here there is only one school offering digidesign certification and they charge $25000 for one year and your certification expires after a year, I think you would be better off to take some of the money and go do a Sound Engineering course somewhere that includes some protools but makes sound the focus, then once you have a better idea what you’re going to do with it, take you $15000 change and buy yourself a nice protools system.

That said if all you want to do is write music then you’ll find protools a bit clunky as it is an engineers environment, you might be better off with something like Live or Logic.[/quote:1vzzmboo]

not exactly correct

If ur just starting out, its a little pointless spending loads of money on h/w and s/w. Its like taking up golf and spending £8000 on ur clubs… yes, they may be shit hot, but they’re not gonna make u play any better if ur just starting out. If u can’t swing a club, no special fancy expensive club is gonna help. Plus, if u don’t go anywhere with it/get bored/not ur cup of tea/never get past the bedroom-producer stage then u’ve just wasted a fat load of £££