All user reviews of 5/5 for the Digidesign Pro Tools M-Powered 8

The Digidesign Pro Tools M Powered 8 version of Pro Tools is perfect for your home studio set up. It will have you making great recordings and a very clean mix in no time. It will take some practice and some patience especially if you are use to the flow of the Pro Tools interface. But you can use the manual for that, I don’t suggest this program to beginners though. But if you aren’t a beginner this is great! I ran this on my PC with an M Box and it worked perfectly. This program is a very large program though, and it will eat up space on your pc. So make sure you have a lot of storage and RAM on your PC before loading this up or your will receive a lot of lag even if you are using the ASIO drivers.

SUITABILITY/PERFORMANCE

But using the Pro Tools M Powered 8 version is not as complex as the regular version of Pro Tools. But it still packs a punch. You can still use all of the main plug ins that you can on the regular version of Pro Tools. The Pro Tools software is a high quality recording software that is an industry standard and is used in all major studios worldwide. You can save your session and open it on a different version of pro tools in a different studio.

OVERALL OPINION

Overall Pro Tools M Powered 8 is great because it allows someone with a smaller budget to have something that the industry uses in the privacy of their own home or personal set up, and still transfer the files over to any pro tools version here is on the market. The price of this product isn’t bad at all, you will need to know how to use pro tools if you are going to be serious in this industry. Pro Tools M Powered 8 makes it possible no matter what your budget is.

The compatibility was fine, all you had to do was buy the Pro Tools for your computer. The manual was kind of confusing with the whole M-Audio story and iLok. I had to look for other resources in the Internet to find out that you had to buy a M-Audio Fast Track or other similar items. The configuration was complicated too and the typical functions were hard to use at first. Overall, to start off Pro Tools, it was very complicated but that's what a very professional program has but the program is full of tools that help you be the greatest at what you are or want to be.

SUITABILITY/PERFORMANCE

After setting up Pro Tools, it works perfectly. It brings you optimum performance and sound to your music. Pro Tools is very stable with any system (Windows, Mac OS, etc.) and it never breaks down or fails. The only time it might lag is when your computer has a lot of programs working at the same time, but if you have an extra hard drive, then this problem doesn't exist. I've been using Pro Tools for about a year and it's great and works as well as it did when I bought it new.

OVERALL OPINION

What I like most about it is the tools and instruments it has. It has a great amount of amazing sounds you can use for different types of music. The problem of other programs is that the sounds are very weak and the are very little of them, Pro Tools changes this completely bringing you over 1,000 sounds with different instruments as well as Tools like Compression, EQ, etc to change the sound of your instruments and mix vocals. It's also very easy to mix vocals with all the tools it offers you. What might be a little bit annoying about Pro Tools is how everything is so professionally designed that it might not be very beginner friendly, but if you understand everything about it, it's excellent. The price of the program might be a little bit expensive, but it is the best program out there right now to make music in my opinion, so I'm surprised the program isn't over 600 dollars. The quality of the sound is optimum and very precise. It offers you frequencies of any range and it allows you to be very precise with the count. After, exporting your work to your hard drive as an .mp3 or.aiff, the sound is the best possible, that's why professionals use it. Before buying Pro Tools, I tried GarageBand, which was very, very weak compared to Pro Tools, which changed my whole music experience. You should make the same choice I did and buy Pro Tools for the best performance out there and make your music live.