Pro Tools

Find out what the Pro Tools 11 world will hold for your hardware setup.

You can back up a Pro Tools session like any other file, but will it still be readable in 10 years’ time? Here’s how to make sure.

Pro Tools’ template system, and its undocumented Track Presets feature, can help your sessions get moving faster.

Avid’s Complete Production Toolkit effectively bridges the gap between HDX and native Pro Tools systems. We look at what you get for your money.

Learn how to use Pro Tools’ Digibase Browsers and all your audio files will be at your fingertips.

Pro Tools 10 unlocks the vast potential of Avid’s Artist Series controllers. Here’s how to tap into those new possibilities...

Some of the new features in Pro Tools 10 aren’t immediately obvious — but they can be invaluable once you know how to use them.

If you’re not careful, you could find that your Pro Tools HDX upgrade leaves you without your favourite plug-ins...

Should you upgrade your Pro Tools rig to HDX? And if you do, what pitfalls await?

Pro Tools lets you edit audio from the keyboard, without even touching the mouse. Here’s how.

Save time and protect yourself from RSI by learning to edit audio in Pro Tools from the QWERTY keyboard.

Pitch-correction plug-ins are the key to the current trend for weird vocal effects. Here’s how to achieve them in Pro Tools.

For those with a large collection of audio files to manage, we look at two applications that bridge the gap between Pro Tools and the Mac’s Finder.

New to Pro Tools 9? Here’s how to get the best from all the features that were HD‑only until now!

The ‘cloud’ is great for backing up Pro Tools projects — if you know what to upload. We look at a service that can do it automatically.

The iLok dongle is more important to Pro Tools users than ever. So should existing users make the move to the new version, and how do new users get started?

For Pro Tools users who are tired of conventional effects, convolution plug‑ins open up a huge range of new possibilities.

Backing vocals sound better when they’re perfectly in time — if yours aren’t, Pro Tools can help you fix them.

Behind the scenes in Pro Tools 9 there are some major changes to how the I/O Setup window works.

Once you've created a basic Structure instrument, there are lots of things you can do to improve the way it sounds and plays.

To get the most from Avid's Structure sampler, you need to work with your own sounds. Here's how.