- Smash through the ceiling of your musical creativity with Pro Tools Recording Studio.
- Easily create, play, mix and record your music with the same platform professionals use to produce much of the most popular music
- Plug in standard guitars, microphones and other instruments to play and record your music directly to your PC or Mac
Product Description
Smash through the ceiling of your musical creativity with Pro Tools Recording Studio. Easily create, play, mix and record your music with the same platform professionals use to produce much of the most popular music in the world. Play and record directly to your PC or MAC from standard guitars and microphones with Fast Track USB…. More >>
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#1 by DPieter Strauss on April 19, 2010 - 12:20 am
The Pro Tools Recording Studio, upon startup, informed me that my disk volume names were too long, and that the software would corrupt my disks if I didn’t change the volume names. Sorry! Not acceptable. I stopped the startup and deinstalled Pro Tools. I tried to get assistance from Maudio, but after two days got no response to the incident I opened, and returned the product to Amazon (who, by the way, accepted the return with no difficulties).
Rating: 1 / 5
#2 by Eduardo Briceão Alegria on April 19, 2010 - 2:05 am
hardware is something simple that works well and the software takes all the credit for someone who wants to have a small studio at home with 16 channels. You do not need the full version because with ProTools Essential is enough to do everything necessary to record your demos on a professional level. For example, you can put several guitars and recording by sections something that helps a lot when you’re just a guitarist.
Rating: 4 / 5
#3 by Guitar Johnny on April 19, 2010 - 2:09 am
I just bought this as a way to get my feet wet and begin to learn Pro Tools. There are probably easier to learn DAWs out there than Pro Tools, but I like the fact that studios use Pro Tools and two others in my band have Pro Tools home recording systems. I also like the fact that Pro Tools models the functions of a real studio mixer rather than trying to invent their own paradigm.
One word of warning: for home recording you will want the best quality condenser mic you can afford. Condenser mics pretty much always require phantom power and this M-audio box, being pretty entry level, does not support that. You can either use a lesser mic that does not require phantom power, or you can go out and find some kind of direct box that will give the mic power from your A/C socket in the wall, but you won’t be able to just plug-and-go with a good condenser mic. I haven’t sorted this problem out yet so I can’t advise.
Also, I have tried recording direct in from guitar and I don’t recommend it. The built in preamp on the M-Audio box is ONLY for the mic. If you plug into the direct input channel (i.e. input 2) there is no gain control either on the M-Audio box nor on the mixing board in Pro Tools. The input level is whatever your guitar puts out. Yes, there’s a button on the back of the box for recording guitar, but this the problem is even with that gain boost enabled.
I think the way to get around that is to play through an amplifier and mic it, or else play through some kind of pre-amp and put higher levels into the input of the M-Audio box, but again I haven’t worked around this problem yet.
So, you probably can’t beat this for the price, but it might not be as brain-dead simple as it first appears.
Rating: 4 / 5
#4 by Isiah S. Davis on April 19, 2010 - 3:47 am
I bought this so I could record my guitar playing on my computer and use the included Pro Tools software to create backing tracks to play to, and for my needs it has performed well. The audio interface really is high quality, and it is useful no matter what kind of audio software you like to use. I like the Pro Tools M-Powered Essential software as well, with the included virtual instruments and loops I can create quality backing tracks for my guitar playing. Buy this, a dynamic mic for vocals and a midi keyboard for the Virtual Instruments and your home studio will be good to go.
P.S.
here is a great Midi Keyboard: M-Audio Pro Tools Keystudio
Rating: 5 / 5