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| | Features | Studio-standard composing, recording, MIDI sequencing, editing, and mixing featuresWork with up to 48 simultaneous mono or stereo tracks at 24-bit/96Khz fidelityPolish mixes with over 70 virtual instruments and effects plug-insCompose music easily with full MIDI and score notation toolsAdjust pitch and time on the fly with Elastic Pitch and Elastic Time
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| | Description | Professional music creation has never been more accessible. Designed for use with select M-Audio recording interfaces, Pro Tools MP 9-the latest version of Pro Tools M-Powered software - improves upon the industry-leading features that made it the top choice for music and audio production. Enjoy 48-track mono or stereo audio recording, editing, andmixing with up to 24-bit/96 Khz fidelity. shape sounds and add effects with over 70 included plug-ins. Easily compose music with full MIDI and score notation tools. Get great-sounding, phase-accurate mixes with Automatic Delay Compensation. And collaborate with other Pro Tools users in studios around the world. Pro Tools MP software puts all this power-and much more-at your fingertips. | |
| | Product Details | | Product Length: | 7.8 inches | | Product Width: | 1.7 inches | | Product Height: | 9.4 inches | | Product Weight: | 0.1 pounds | | Package Length: | 9.45 inches | | Package Width: | 7.87 inches | | Package Height: | 1.81 inches | | Package Weight: | 0.62 pounds | | Average Customer Rating: |  based on 5 reviews |
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22 of 23 found the following review helpful:
 Full featured "prosumer" music production at a reasonable price Oct 05, 2011
By Adam Drew
Pro Tools MP 9 is a very nice full featured music production suite aimed at the "prosumer" market. It has limits but they are set high enough that they would be unlikely to impede any home-recording musician, even those with much more ambitious use cases than simple voice and acoustic guitar arrangements. Pro Tools MP 9 allows for tons of audio and MIDI tracks and allows for a large amount of effects per track; if you count post-fader inserts and sends your signal chain possibilities are limited only by your processor. Because Pro Tools MP is for off-the-shelf M-Audio hardware it does all of its work in software without a hardware DSP to off-load to. However, if you've been working with other music production suites you are likely used to this; that's how everyone else does it at the hobbyist/prosumer level. Unlike other solutions though there's a clear growth path for dedicated DSP hardware with Pro Tools if you do out-grow MP. That's a pretty cool feature.
Pro Tools MP 9 comes with a large selection of effects and instruments. Like a lot of folks in this day and age I own very little outboard gear and so a large selection of instruments is a must. I have been pleased with the quality and diversity of the sounds on offer here out of the box. Some of the highlights are:
Xpand2: A multi-part synthesis workstation. Sort of like a simple Triton or an Alesis QS7 in software. It has a sound bank of 500 sounds that you can then layer and mix in any way into patches. You can then apply an ADSR envelope, filter, and two effects to the resultant patch. 500 "building block" sounds may not sound like a lot but there are 4 layers per patch meaning that there are 62,500,000,000 different possible sound combinations - and that's excluding the filter (the LPF is *killer* - it sounds like real gear; best I've heard in software,) envelope, and effects. Xpand2 comes with a wide array of sounds including natural sounds like pianos, strings, and acoustic drums and electronic sounds like synths, pads, ambient drones, and electronic percussion. Xpand2 is very processor light and makes for a workhorse that will likely power many of the tracks in your songs. Xpand2 also comes with a huge set of presets. Xpand2 can accept MIDI input from multiple MIDI tracks so it makes it really easy to put different parts on different tracks without needing multiple instances of Xpand2 running.
Boom: A classic step-sequenced drum machine but with a MIDI twist. With Boom you can sequence patterns (I think up to 16 patterns per patch? But I'm not 100% sure) like any step-based drum machine. What's fairly unique about Boom though is that each pattern then gets mapped to your MIDI controller automatically. You can then record a performance in a MIDI track by changing which patterns are playing when. It's very expressive and allows you to put patters together in cool ways you may not normally think of. It also eliminates the tedium of sequencing patterns into a song which is usually a pain.
Vacuum: An old-school analog synth with tons of knobs. Vacuum sounds great. It reminds me a lot of the Korg MS-20 but it isn't a patch cable based synth. Analog synths are pretty standard stuff so I don't know what to say. It's got wave forms, filters, envelopes, some basic effects, etc, etc. I may not be going into great detail about Vacuum but that's just because if you are reading this you probably know what to expect from a full featured analog synth. I guess that's the part I should emphasize: Vacuum is full featured. You have total control over everything. Not just 4 or 5 knobs. It sounds great and quite real. I know I'll be using this a lot.
Mini Grand: If you are looking for a *very* high quality digital piano hit this instead of Xpand2. Mini Grand is a full digital piano in software. It has a few tone options and models available and some simple built-in effects. It is obviously massively multi-sampled and the dynamics are impressive. It sounds just like the real thing. Quite nice.
DB-33: A Tone wheel organ. I don't use organs much so I want go into detail. From what I've seen and heard from it DB-33 sounds grad and is very full featured. For some an organ is a killer app, for others it is a nice-to-have. I unfortunately fall in that second camp. However, having a nice reach and fully tweakable organ is better when you do need it than picking from a few thin organ patches on a synth or sampler.
Structure Free: Structure Free is the "free" version of the Structure sampler from Digidesign. I say "free" because you can only get it by buying Pro Tools so you do pay for it but they sell a bigger better version. Structure Free comes with some samples and patches and of course you can supply and make your own. A great tool for drums or any other audio samples you may need to sequence. A useful tool if you do a lot with samples or ever need to incorporate sequenced samples into your work. Structure is a very powerful tool though it seems simple. It is worth learning. Structure is multichannel so if you need multiple parts on different tracks you only need 1 instance of Structure running and then you can route multiple MIDI tracks to it.
Those are the main instruments that come with Pro Tools MP and it is a well rounded set. It may not sound like a lot but between Vacuum, Structure, and Xpand2 you can do pretty much anything. There's also a wide array of software instruments available from Digidesign as well as many third parties. However, in my looking around it appears that virtual instruments in the Pro Tools RTAS format are often more expensive than other formats. That said RTAS plugins are often feature rich with really great user interfaces so maybe some of that price is justified. Pro Tools does not load VSTs but there is a VST to RTAS wrapper available from a third party.
The range of effects provided with ProTools MP 9 is also quite broad. Unlike the instruments I am not going to list them out but I will say that the effects cover all the bases. There are multiple reverbs, delays, dynamics processors such as limiters and compressors, and some really nice amp modeling software (this is important if like me you have guitar and bass but no amps our outboard pedals.) It is a really great selection and covers all of the standard tools a producer/engineer/sound-designer would need. I've found the quality of the effects to be much higher than anything I've used in other software. The quality of the sound is just fantastic and all of the effects come with some really great presets.
As far as the software itself Pro Tools MP 9 has a very nice user interface and all of the features you'd want and need from a DAW and MIDI sequencer; it also has plenty of tools and capabilities I've never seen before on other platforms and that I've barely begun scratching the surface of. Pro Tools has a lot of features - I've been very happy with how robust it is.
If you are new to Pro Tools - even if you are super familiar with recording and engineering on other systems - make sure you read the documentation thoroughly. There's lots of it and it will take time but it is well worth it. Pro Tools comes with a whole bunch of PDFs. I loaded them on to my Moto Xoom tablet and read them while following along in Pro Tools on my computer. I am still going through it but I learned a lot. I was having major performance and latency issues out-of-the-box but reading the manual really helped me get that in-line. I also suggest looking into some of the tutorial videos and sites that are available online. Pro Tools has been around a long time and offers a lot of advanced functionality (especially in the signal routing and editing areas) that you may not be familiar with if you are coming from other tools like FL Studio, GarageBand, or Ardour. It is well worth putting the time into reading and learning to get the most out of it.
Now, I've laid out all of the good let me lay out some of the bad. Pro Tools has a long history of utilizing outboard gear and dedicated DSP hardware to do its work. The ability to do everything on the CPU in software is a fairly new addition to Pro Tools over the years mostly driven by demand from customers and competition from products like GarageBand, Logic, and FL Studio. I believe that because of this Pro Tools is a bit heavier and not as optimized as other solutions. Pro Tools sounds great and offers high quality effects and sound generation but it seems that Pro Tools struggles to do this in real time. Whereas on GarageBand or Ardour I could record guitar in real time with amp modeling and effects with dozens of other effect-heavy tracks with latencies that were imperceptible I notice latency in Pro Tools even after only less than 10 tracks. Now it could be I still don't have an optimal config. There is some tweaking and configuring you can do. It could also be that Pro Tools really wants you to record to a different disk than your system disk; I have a big fast eSATA disk on the way to try. But so far even though I have a fast quad core i5 box with a bunch of RAM it seems Pro Tools takes more CPU and RAM than products that were built for software rendering on the CPU from the ground up for years.
All in all I love Pro Tools MP 9 so far. It is a really feature rich and complete platform with pro features and sound for very little money. I enjoy using it and I feel good about the upgrade and growth path should I need more down the road. Pro Tools does have a learning curve and it is a time investment as well as a money investment but it seems well worth it. I would recommend Pro Tools MP 9 for anyone who has outgrown something like GarageBand, or someone who wants a more standard DAW style workflow than FL Studio, or anyone who's looking for an industry standard and well supported recording platform with great vendor and third party support.
Update: Nov 8 2011, I solved my latency problems. I was originally using a Dell system with Windows 7 and a Core i5 processor. I bought an Apple MacBook Pro with an i7 processor to run Pro Tools and the difference is night and day. While I had to tweak and tune Pro Tools on Windows 7 to get it to run OK (but still with latency) I didn't have to tune anything on Mac OS X. It just worked and worked great "out of the box." Pro Tools also looks and works much better on Mac OS X. If you are considering Pro Tools I highly recommend using it on a Mac.
3 of 3 found the following review helpful:
 Pass over this one Mar 03, 2012
By N. Kratzmeyer
This program has some really nice features, (most of which are overkill for a home setup) but it just constantly crashes. My machine meets and beats the requirements for the program but it still constantly crashes. Also, it doesn't play very nice with a lot of the plugins that I have which have worked fine in my other DAWs.
2 of 2 found the following review helpful:
 great Mar 19, 2012
By common christian
by having a m-audio pro fire 2626,this was just perfect because pro tools was able to make my interface compatible with pro tools, it works great and no problems.
5 of 12 found the following review helpful:
 Can't get past installation. Jan 22, 2012
By FourBoysMom
Can't write a product review since, after two weeks of trying, still can't get the program installed. Followed the directions exactly. Have called for technical support. Technical support, to date, has been explaining the problem, getting put on hold for 10 to 15 minutes, once again explaining the problem and once again getting put on hold for 10-15 minutes. Record to date is 4 holds and I finally gave up having wasted more than one hour. Would like to write a product review of how the program works if I ever get past the installation. So far I have paid over $200 for a CD, not a program.
6 of 31 found the following review helpful:
DONT BUY!!! Nov 16, 2011
By Beeri Moalem
Avid changed their name from digi design because that company has such a bad reputation.
They make it so that their software (protools) only works with their hardware (m-audio)
Then they keep changing everything so you have to keep buying new versions. Want technical support? They'll charge for that too. Brilliant. Make a product that doesnt work then charge Customers to fix it.
Do yourself a favor: DONT DO BUSINESS WITH THESE PEOPLE. There are many other alternatives for recording software!
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