- Industry-standard audio/MIDI production environment > know one Pro Tools system, know them all
- Easy to learn and use > make better music faster
- Advanced MIDI production tools and Score Editor > all-in-one solution
- Includes 7 powerful virtual instruments and 70 plug-ins > incredible value
- Session compatibility with all current Pro Tools systems > create anywhere, anytime
Product Description
Pro Tools® M-Powered™ 8 software puts the industry standard in audio/MIDI production on the fast track, letting you enter the powerful world of Pro Tools on your own terms. Pro Tools M-Powered has the same user interface as Pro Tools|HD® and Pro Tools LE®, all while expanding your creative hardware options to dozens of M-Audio interfaces*. Session compatibility with all current versions of Pro Tools software means that you can easily move your projects between … More >>
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Great producto… it’s PT8, but has alot of troubles when you want register and authorize…
my serial number was already taken!!!!
by who…
Rating: 3 / 5
I’ve been waiting for the 8.0 version release, anticipating using my Windows Vista 64 operating system. Until now I have not been able to get Protools to work on my system. I did hear that you can set your system to 32 Bit and use the older versions but decided to wait. I’m glad I did. With the release of 8.0 I am back recording again. So far so good, I have not had any issues. Granted I am not recording a lot of tracs usually around 4 at the most. I guess time will tell if all is well. I’m very satisfied with this software.
Rating: 4 / 5
I wish I could give this program a real review but unfortunately Pro Tools 8 doesn’t work on 64 Bit, NOT EVEN IN 32 BIT MODE.
Yes, I have 150 applications installed on my computer, and pro tools is THE ONLY ONE that won’t work.. Unbelievable, you people should be ashamed of yourselves, next they’ll want me to pay more money when the Windows 7 version come out to upgrade..
They should be embarrassed
Rating: 1 / 5
I purchased this software in hopes of utilizing the notation software built in (as Sibelius does not have ReWire out capabilities), as well as possible Video synchronizing to Reason 4 (ReWire).
First off, the notation, or the score editor, is a joke. You’re better off working within the midi editor and watching things happen in the score editor by itself. It is completely unintuitive and extremely limited. No lyrics, no dynamics, and you have to buy a $400 upgrade to get more than 32 staves on the screen (if you work with Orchestra, and the fact you can’t get articulations easily on screen, you quickly suck up 5 staves for one instrument, and wind up out of room).
You also have to consider the requirement of NEEDING a qualified hardware to function. This means another $100 to $300 purchase.
The other issues I have are the dozens of bugs that make their way into the software. Good luck installing on a non-clean copy of Windows. It won’t work well. After several installs I finally got the software to at least startup. But, this last project I did was a video… writing music to the background. Producing the entire 6 minute short video worked great. But, I wanted to render/bounce only the last minute of the video as a ‘preview’ video… what I got, without changing anything at all, was a 3 second difference in audio-visual timing. With an hour of trying to figure out what to do, I gave up.
Little bugs like this. Such as one install resulted in ‘popping and cracking’ via ReWire. Click on a note in score editor, and the first half a second of the sample is skipped, or sometimes it won’t play at all. Another install, and it works fine. You would also think that tools on screen would allow for easy clipping, shortening of clips, trimming, etc…. no. You get this fancy curser, but when you click and drag – oh wait! No dragging, it just pops up a window with a bunch of time code and asks you where you want to trim to… never seemed to work quite right either.
Who knows.
For an ‘industry standard’, PT8 is EXTREMELY over-rated. Sure, I now have a Delta10/10LT, and recording 8 people at once is great and all…. but so many features are half-thought-out, or simply and plainly buggy beyond repair, this is NOT WORTH YOUR MONEY.
I just wish I could get my money back… all 900 dollars worth (keyboard, $250 for hardware requirements, $250 for software, $400 upgrade thinking it would improve things).
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After half a year of ownership, my opinion has changed very little. As I work on some videos right now via ReWire, I have frequently had PT8 lock up my system, or in this last case, my audio “buzzed” out of control and it notified me that my CPU was out of power (which is bogus under normal use). I quit PT8, which managed to get my system back under control and audio working again, and Reason was still running perfectly as if nothing had happened.
Rating: 2 / 5
I had absolutely no problem loading and running pro-tools on my Windows Vista 64-bit system. I went to the M-Audio site, downloaded the 64-bit sp1 and sp2 drivers. Installed both on my computer and then installed pro-tools. It has performed flawlessly. I have had some problems with programming my Axiom 25 midi controller but feel confidant it will work out. My Yamaha Motif 8 works well with it, but I only have used it for audio recording. The midi hook up there will needs a little fine tune as well. Still the range and depth of this program is magnifacent. I will say that if you lack real knowledge on how DAW programs operate with your computer you may have some problems getting up and running.
Rating: 5 / 5