ProTools opens up — from JISC
Avid adds open standard compliance to their industry-standard audio software.
With the release of Pro Tools 9, however, this has all changed. Avid (who have also now dropped the ‘Digidesign’ sub-brand from ProTools) have opened up Pro Tools to interface with open software and hardware standards like Apple’s Core Audio, or ASIO for Windows, and for the first time you can now buy Pro Tools software on its own (rather than bundled with, or limited to specific hardware) and record and play back through any audio interface. At JISC Digital Media this means we’re looking forward to hooking ‘Tools up to our Apogee Ensemble interface, as well as other Core Audio and ASIO audio devices we have access to, and getting back to what for some of us is a familiar environment.