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| | Features | 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 musicPlug in standard guitars, microphones and other instruments to play and record your music directly to your PC or Mac
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| | 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 | | Product Length: | 7.25 inches | | Product Width: | 7.0 inches | | Product Height: | 2.25 inches | | Product Weight: | 1.15 pounds | | Package Length: | 7.6 inches | | Package Width: | 7.3 inches | | Package Height: | 2.2 inches | | Package Weight: | 1.15 pounds | | Average Customer Rating: |  based on 46 reviews |
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89 of 97 found the following review helpful:
Best Review for the Pro Tools Recording Studio Jul 04, 2010
By C. Burris
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.
28 of 29 found the following review helpful:
 A beginner's studio. Jan 17, 2010
By Isiah S. Davis
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
18 of 19 found the following review helpful:
 Entry Level, but good quality Mar 04, 2010
By Guitar Johnny
"Guitar Johnny"
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.
7 of 7 found the following review helpful:
For the Price you Pay, it's Great! Nov 02, 2011
By Jalen Anthony Krupa
"Jalenk"
So, I have to write a review because there are just too many people bashing this thing. First of all, I do want to remind everybody that Pro Tools is the industry standard for recording studios across the country. I know this because I worked at a recording studio for 6 years. My clients included AT&T, MTV and the History Channel just to name a few. Today, when you watch a big budget movie, chances are, it was mixed using Pro Tools. Was it this version of Pro Tools? No, but chances are it was Pro Tools software that was used by a professional sound artist to record, edit and mix the audio tracks.
Now, why am I telling you all this? It's because you need to understand that Pro Tools is a very powerful program. Pro Tools M-Powered Essentials (what they call this version of Pro Tools) is a watered down version of the $600 full version. You still have a lot of the great editing features, like waveform editing, crossfades, and TCE (time compression and expansion -- yeah, it's in there). So, it's not like they're selling you a brick. If you're looking for a simple, straight forward solution for recording a few voice tracks and instruments, this will work for you. Are there cheaper and probably better programs out there? Probably, but why spend the time leaning an inferior program? If you're going to put the time in to learn a recording program, learn Pro Tools. Don't waste your time with cheap audio editing programs that will be gone in 5 years. Learn a program that will be around for at least another 10-20 years.
Alright, let's get into the software. First up, there is a little confusion to what version of Pro Tools comes packaged with Pro Tools Recording Studio. I had a guy at Guitar Center tell me it was SE, which is a lot like LE. I have no idea what that means, but the software that comes with this is called Pro Tools M-Powered Essentials 8. I have not used Pro Tools 8 (the full version) so I can't comment on the similarities. But that's what they call the software... Pro Tools M-Powered Essentials 8.
Installation was somewhat easy. I say somewhat easy because M-Audio has teamed up with a company called PACE which is a anti-piracy company that requires you to download a small program to allow Pro Tools to run on my Mac (which is a Mac Mini 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo w/8GB Ram). I didn't know this until I was getting an error message after installation telling me that "Installation could not be completed". What's weird, is that the software loaded just fine, but when Pro Tools was launched, it gave me a message about downloading the anti-piracy software. Of course this needed to be downloaded in order for me to use the Pro Tools software. No big deal I guess. I'm not too excited about an anti-piracy program on my computer, but then again, if it's required for me to run Pro Tools on my computer, so be it.
As for features, it lacks many of the big boy stuff but it does have a lot of the essentials, (no pun intended). Reverb, chorus, delay, flanger, phaser, compression and EQ... The important stuff is there. A few things I noticed missing, was shuffle mode. Only slip and grid was available. I found a work around though. Just right click the track and click "snap to previous". No biggie, but I use to use shuffle mode all the time. MP3 import and export are in there which I remember having to pay extra for with Pro Tools LE. Preferences is locked and requires an upgrade to "Pro Tools M-Powered" which I found for $300 on M-Audio's website. Supposedly, the upgrade gives you an extra 100 more features which of course includes my shuffle mode as well.
Okay, on to the Fast Track USB breakout box... A lot of gripes with this as well. Biggest gripe seems to be its lack of a preamp. For me it wasn't a big deal because I have a ($50) Behringer Xenyx 802 Premium 8-Input 2-Bus Mixer with Xenyx Mic Preamps and British EQs, which is a 8 channel mixer with a built in preamp. I have everything routed to my mixer before going into the Fast Track box. I read a review about the Fast track a while back and someone had stated something about not being able to record a stereo CD into Fast Track. Best advice for this individual, is to rip the freaking CD using iTunes or Toast 11 Titanium Mac! And if you do have to import a stereo analog source, you could just import the left channel, then the right... I know that's kind of a sucky work around, but what do you expect for the price you're paying! I haven't had to import a stereo analog source for years, so I'm not too worried about it.
Alright, so there ya go! That's the Pro Tools Recording Studio in a nut shell. I almost didn't buy this thing because of all the negative reviews, but I'm really glad I did. I got a special price of $50, so I figured if it didn't work out I could just give it to one of my struggling musician friends. He'll have to stick to recording his guitar tracks on the built in microphone on his flip cell phone, as I'm keeping the Pro Tools Recording Studio... Thank you very much!
4 of 4 found the following review helpful:
Good product, bad 64-bit drivers Jun 03, 2010
By Lee Mayhew
"rdeschain"
So admittedly I should have done more research before making this purchase. I found Windows 7 64-bit drivers on M-Audio's website, so I assumed (and we know what that does, right?!) that they were good drivers. Wrong! Spent a couple days troubleshooting and reading forums before I just decided that the 64-bit drivers were not ready for primetime. Lots of popping, feedback, and latency, which should not have been happening on my quad core system w/4 gigs of RAM.
Fortunately I'm PC savvy and had an extra WinXP license, so I set up my system to dual-boot Win 7 64-bit and Win XP 32-bit. Installed ProTools and the interface on the XP partition, and Voila! Perfection! A little inconvenient to have to reboot when I want to record, but I don't really multitask while recording anyway, so no big deal.
So now I'm very pleased with the product. My only "criticism", if you can call it that, is that the software really is pro quality, so the learning curve is substantial for a recording n00b like me, but I'm figuring it out.
I almost sprung for the MK11 version with the phantom power, but for my needs I figured I could get by without any fancy condenser mics for a while, so I save some cash and got the Fast Track USB.
Hope this helps!
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