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.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #61 in Musical Instruments
- Brand: M-Audio
- Model: Pro Tools Recording Studio
- Released on: 2009-09-15
- Platforms: Windows XP, Mac OS X, Windows Vista, Windows 7
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 2.25" h x 7.00" w x 7.25" l, 1.10 pounds
Features
- Everything you need to start creating, mixing and recording your music
- M-Audio Fast Track USB audio interface provides input for microphone, guitar, or other instrument
- Pro Tools M-Powered Essential software enables you to record, edit and produce with the creative power of Pro Tools
- Instantly turn your Mac or PC into a full-featured recording studio
- Create songs in minutes--included templates and loops let you make music in any style
- 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
Editorial Reviews
Amazon.com Product Description
Crank up the level of your musical creativity with the power of Pro Tools Recording Studio. Easily craft a hit by creating, mixing and recording your music on the same digital platform professionals use to produce much of the world's most popular music. Plug in your standard guitar, microphone and other instruments into our simple yet high-quality audio USB interface play and record directly to your Mac or PC. Even if you're a beginner, your songs will sound like they came from a top recording studio when you pair your inspiration with the ultimate audio production software.
The Pro Tools Recording Studio package (see larger image). |
Pro Tools M-Powered Essential software (see larger image). |
M-Audio Fast Track USB Audio Interface
Record guitar, vocals and more
Capture pristine digital sound for any recording project with Fast Track USB--whether your guitar is plugged right into the computer or you’re using a standard microphone.
Professional quality audio interface
Create a hit song or soundtrack with M-Audio technology, previously only available to the pros. With far superior sound than standard-issue PC audio cards, Fast Track USB delivers a high quality, skin-tingling audio experience--even if you’re just listening.
Connect directly to your PC or Mac
Make music now when you plug in your guitar, microphone or other instruments into our USB interface that connects to your Mac or PC. Fully experience high quality digital sound when you listen to playback on headphones plugged right into the interface.
Create the perfect sound
Adjust your input levels with the included Pro Tools M-Powered Essential software to achieve the perfect sound for your track.
Pro Tools M-Powered Essential Software
Pro Tools M-Powered Essential gives you easy access to many of the same Pro Tools software features that professionals use every day to create Grammy award-winning albums, Emmy award-winning television shows, and Academy Award-winning films. This easy-to-use software lets you create pro-sounding mixes with up to 16 mono or stereo audio tracks. You also get 60+ virtual instrument sounds to play and record, plus EQ and other effects to make your mixes sound professionally produced. It even comes with over 5.5 GB of music-making tools to help you get started instantly.
Play, mix and record with the creative power of Pro Tools
Create incredible music right out of the box with the platform the professionals use to record, edit and produce much of the most popular music in the world.
Get inspired with a treasure trove of loops
Go from casual playing or singing to full-blown music production in styles ranging from hip-hop and funk to pop, jazz, rock and blues. Or, use our vast library of drum and instrument loops as an ideal springboard for practicing, jamming or songwriting.
Plug it in
Texture your sound with the rich coloring of the SansAmp tube amplifier simulator. Simply plug your guitar into the included Fast Track USB interface and you'll feel like you're playing on the real thing.
Customer Reviews
Best Review for the Pro Tools Recording Studio
Ok guys, ill make this short and sweet.
Im a singer song writer, been using Magix Music studio 12, then decided to buy Pro Tools.
"PROS for the Fast Track USB interface"
Low latency - Clean clear voices
High build quality
Small/Compact
Portable
"CONS for the Fast Track USB interface"
Cant use condenser microphone. **I was able to set up a condenser mic to this USB fast track model. But i had to buy a phantom power supply that cost me an additional 30 BUCKS! but it works fine.**
Only records in MONO. not capable of recording in Stereo. Which is my biggest turn off. NO one uses Mono recording. Why would they even make it MONO? so dumb.
As for the actuall software Pro Tools M-Powered Essentials
Pros
Tons of loops and Samples
Vitrual instruments and
Awesome Recording Interface.
Cons
Takes alot of space on ur computer so have alot of memory.
Does NOT, I repeat DOES NOT give you access to all functions of the Pro Tools program. They kepp wanting you to upgrade to the full version.
OVERALL Tips
Good for intery level stuff.
I personally just sold this and bought the MBox 2 which is by far a way better investment but a little expensive.
Have acomputer with alot of RAM and Memory.
If you want to use a condenser mic, buy a phantom power supply for like 19 -30bucks then hook it up accordingly.
Hope this helps you guys out!
CB.
A beginner's studio.
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
Entry Level, but good quality
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.
