Professional Music
Digidesign and Professional Music
From the first vocal take to the final mix, Digidesign® Pro Tools|HD systems are the essential tool — and the industry standard — for music creation in professional studios. The system’s powerful TDM engine delivers unmatched performance and sound quality. With Pro Tools|HD systems, the power to create is never hindered by track count or DSP, allowing you to concentrate on what really matters — the music. And when it comes to creativity, Pro Tools|HD, in combination with Pro Tools 8 software offers the most comprehensive collection of innovative software, plug-ins, and virtual instruments available, all with Digidesign’s legendary ease of use. Add ICON, Digidesign’s award-winning, professional integrated mixing consoles, and you have the perfect solution to revolutionize your music production.
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Recording, Tracking, and Editing Pro Tools|HD systems provide incredibly powerful tools for recording and editing music, so you get professional results quickly and easily. Take control of tracking with high-quality, integrated mic preamps, managed within Pro Tools HD 8 software or through an ICON worksurface or C|24™ control surface. Perfect your music with Pro Tools 8 software’s helpful editing features, such as Elastic Time, Elastic Pitch, Beat Detective, and Tab to Transient — powerful tools that enable you to quickly edit, manipulate your recordings, quantize audio regions, and even change the tempo of entire tracks.
 Composition and Creativity Pro Tools|HD systems provide a vast array of features and third-party products to help inspire and develop your ideas. Creative MIDI tools, sound-processing plug-ins, and exclusive virtual instruments allow you to experiment with incredible sounds. Create world-class drum and percussion performances using Strike™. Vibe out to the ultimate classic electric pianos simulation with Velvet™. If you need blazing guitar amp tones, just open up Eleven™ and you have it all. And with Structure™, our integrated professional sampler, and Transfuser™, our new loop slicing and manipulation tool, the creative opportunities are endless.
Music Mixing with ICON ICON is the ultimate mixing solution for music production in Pro Tools|HD. Its perfect integration with Pro Tools allows you to record and mix in the same environment, maintaining the purest sound quality. The ICON D-Control™ or D-Command® worksurface can be customized for easy access to every Pro Tools session element, and with powerful automation capabilities, you have full dynamic control and absolute recall of all parameters. When it comes to audio processing, whether you want to emulate a tube compressor or use a super-clean digital EQ, you have access to the industry’s largest collection of plug-in processing and effects.
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“Since installing [the ICON], the room has been booked solid. Feedback from clients has been overwhelmingly positive. It sounds great, and it’s really had a profound impact on the mixing environment."
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