I met with Brandon last night to go over a few things on Pro Tools and also just catch up on projects. As we were sitting there he told me that he got a chance to sit with the Digidesign team and have input on this next version of Protools.
That being said he told me of several exciting features including...
-- Fully integrated MIDI and Score Editor windows for greatly enhanced
MIDI editing functionality and professional score editing and printing
MIDI mapping: Audio tracks can be converted to MIDI and it can be scored.
One of the biggest collective challenges of ProTools is that you have to bounce or export tracks in real time. This will still not be fixable. For right now it still has to be done in real time. Which makes sense when you start thik about all the 3rd party plug ins that have been created and a lot of those plug ins duplicate sound processors in actual studios like where we recorded Signature Sound. So the signal still has to run through the processor as it would in it's real worl component. At least for now!
In addition during the recent music trade show he attended Pro Tools 8 was rampant and it was showcased as running on Vista on many of the 3rd party plug in trade show booths. Comically it would occaisonally crash. Again more of a Vista issue than a Protools issue.
Seriously though, we are excited.
-David Kamatoy (www.DavidKamatoy.com) is co-producer along with Tony Woodroffe (Noyz Boyz Productions) of the Derek Stroh "Stand" Album project. They are extremely excited to take this project to next level with it's release in 2009.
