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Music on the Mac
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Do you
Podcast? Podcasting is the
sharing of a show or mix through itunes. Use your mac to share your mixes, music or radio show
over the web, so others can download it to their ipod and listen to it
later.
iTunes is a
great way to listen to some online radio stations from around the
world. If you're the sort who
gets a rush out of others hearing you creations, you could consider setting
up and radio station on itunes.
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Now available for Tiger,
Protools 7 offers advanced features for the professional. Working with
Macintosh computers, Digidesign(r) Pro Tools is capable of serving as a
complete, self-contained project studio. It enables you to record, edit,
mix, master, and even deliver your finished product, using the same
award-winning Pro Tools(r) technology embraced by audio production
professionals around the world.
Pro tools is offered in LE and M powered versions.
Avid Pro Tools LE software is
built on Academy Award(r) winning, industry-standard Digidesign audio
production technology. Harness the power of your Digidesign audio hardware
to move your ideas from concept to completion with ease and efficiency.
Easy-to-use Pro Tools software is ideal for professional editors or anyone
getting into digital audio production for the very first time.
Pro Tools M-Powered software
allows home studio users and people who need highly portable recording solutions
to take advantage of the recording industry's most popular audio/MIDI
production software along with a variety of M-Audio interfaces. Users can
also access additional products from Digidesign and Digidesign Development
Partners(tm) designed specifically for Pro Tools, including the
Command|8(tm) control surface.
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 Protools
Digidesign offers systems
depending on the needs and budget of potential customers:
The professional-level Pro
Tools|HD system uses expensive PCI cards to perform audio processing on DSP
(digital signal processing) chips to reduce computing burden on the CPU.
Similarly, it utilizes TDM (a proprietary plugin system, based on
time-division multiplexing, thus the name) to communicate with external I/O
devices and other DSP cards to reduce burden on the computer's PCI bus.
Pro Tools HD uses three types
of PCI cards: Core, Process and Accel. All three contain 9 DSP chips. Each
Pro Tools system requires a Core card. Additional Process or Accel cards
may be added to a system to increase capability. Accel cards are the latest
generation and offer faster DSP chips and additional RAM compared to
Process cards.
A fairly new addition to the
range is the ICON: Integrated Console Environment, combining a tactile
control surface and a Pro Tools|HD Accel system in one unit. Designed as a
replacement for existing studio consoles, it attempts to give the user the
feel and control of an analog system, but with a powerful Pro Tools core.
In April 2005, Digidesign
released Pro Tools M-Powered which brought almost all Pro Tools LE
functionality to a subset of M-Audio USB, Firewire and PCI interfaces.
Pro Tools Free was released as
free demo version and is the only version of Pro Tools that does not
require some form of Digidesign or M-Audio hardware to run. It is limited
to 8 audio tracks and 48 MIDI track. It runs on Windows 98/ME and Mac OS 9.
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In order to use the software instruments, it's best
to consider a midi keyboard with midi in and out ports. We use a Yamaha PSR620 to input our
music to the system. To
communicate with the mac, the keyboard needs to be connected through a low
latency Midi interface which turns the midi signals into signals for the usb
port of the mac.
System Requirements Checklist
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Macintosh computer based around a
PowerPC G4 processor minimum.
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Memory: 512MB minimum (1 Gig recommended)
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Operating System: Minimum OS 9 to 10.4 depending upon
release version
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Display: a resolution of 1024x768
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Hard Disk: 40 gig 7200 rpm drive recommended
Older versions of protocols are available from
various sources. If you're
looking for a mac to run an older version of Protools, please ask, we've
got plenty in stock that will suit your needs and your budget.
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G4 Processor Required
Need a mac
that will run Protools? Call
or email us. We can provide
you with what you need.
We recommend a G4 MDD 1.2GHz powermac minimum
£850.00
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