Users of the more affordable native Pro Tools packages, LE and M‑Powered, had long griped about the artificial limitations that kept those packages feature‑poor in comparison with Pro Tools HD.
No longer would their market‑leading Pro Tools DAW be tied to Avid's own hardware from now on it would work with any interface that supported the ASIO or Core Audio driver protocols, from the Apogees and Prisms of this world to the built‑in inputs and outputs of a cheap laptop.Īnd that wasn't all. This year's AES show in San Francisco saw the announcement most of us thought we'd never hear: Avid, for so long the most insular manufacturer in the business, were embracing openness.
For the first time ever, Avid have made the full Pro Tools feature set available on native systems - and you don't even need one of their interfaces to run it!
