May2011

TC Electronic announce v2 of their LM5D loudness meter Pro Tools plug-in

This has just popped up on the TC Electronic news feed. The features of the new LM5D version 2 are... LM5D is now compliant with ITU-R BS.1770-2, EBU R128 and ATSC A/85 Support for Pro Tools 9 (TDM version) You can download the new version for Mac OS X, Windows or Venue from the LM5D support page. There are also a couple of videos showing how the LM5D works....

Shedtown – Radio 4 comedy series starts on 1st June

I have to go back to early September where for nearly a week the cast and crew lived and worked in Robin Hood Bay recording Shedtown on location before the weather broke too much.  Ha ha, the British weather kept us on our toes and made umpteen schedules out of date almost before they had come out of the printer. The view out to sea showing some of the bad weather coming in!   The frst episode is called "Something is Gonna Change.... Who hasn't thought about running away from it all at some time or other? Throwing caution to the wind, wrenching oneself out of a long established orbit to head for the deep space of the unknown? Barry (Tony Pitts) and Jimmy (Kevin Eldon) haven't. Until now. Friends since school days in a small town, they find themselves slipping inexorably and almost unconsciously into middle age. 

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Avid announce Pro Tools & Pro Tools 9.0.3 update

Reading the update pdf, there have been a load of small fixes cvered in this update. Here are the details of where to download everything. Pro Tools 9.0.3 Read Me These document important compatibility information, issues resolved in Pro Tools 9.0.3 (including issues resolved in 9.0.2 and 9.0.1), known issues, error codes, and corrections to the guides for Pro Tools 9.0.3 and Pro Tools HD 9.0.3 software: Pro Tools 9.0.3 Mac Read Me (PDF) [0.17 MB] Pro Tools 9.0.3 Windows Read Me (PDF) [0.19 MB] If you have already installed Pro Tools 9.0 on your system from the Pro Tools 9.0 installation DVD, or previously installed 9.0 or 9.0.1 from your Avid Account, you can download the Pro Tools 9.0.3 Updater for Mac or Windows: Download Pro Tools 9.0.3 Updaters and Read Me Documents    

Divided We Fall wins Sony Award

At last night’s Sony Radio Academy Awards, Mannmade Production’s drama serial “Divided We Fall” which was edited by Mike Thornton, and made for Preston FM won the Bronze Sony in the “Best Community Programming” category. It was the brainchild of Sohail Nawaz and his Northwest Muslim Community organisation, Shanbash.  Sohail is always looking for new ways to convey the message that the majority of Muslims are peace-loving and law abiding citizens and he hit on the idea of a radio soap to illustrate the paths to extremism.

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Avid Pro Tools HD Native

Our Mike Thornton writes the Pro Tools Notes, Techniques and Workshop articles for Sound on Sound as well as reviewing many of the new Pro Tools related products. Note that you will need to be a subscriber to view the recent articles or you can choose to Click & Buy individual ones.   Avid Pro Tools HD Native The idea of a ‘native’ Pro Tools HD might sound like an contradiction, but it offers the most affordable way of obtaining key HD features that are still not available elsewhere.

I/O Setup Window in Pro Tools 9

Our Mike Thornton writes the Pro Tools Notes, Techniques and Workshop articles for Sound on Sound as well as reviewing many of the new Pro Tools related products. Note that you will need to be a subscriber to view the recent articles or you can choose to Click & Buy individual ones.   I/O Setup Window in Pro Tools 9 Behind the scenes in Pro Tools 9 there are some major changes to how the I/O Setup window works.

  • Pro Tools for Media is now part of Pro Tools Expert

    Phase 3 of the Pro Tools Expert site in now underway so there will be no more posts here. All future posts will be on the new Pro Tools Expert site. We have created categories there so that if you only want to follow Post related posts then you can, we have a Post specific RSS feed
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    Mike is Pro Tools genius and an award winning ‘audiomeister’, defined as ‘a person of great skill and authority in sound’. His vast array of credits include music (from classical to rock), drama and documentaries across all the BBC Radio networks, as well as audio post production for video and TV, ‘new media’, live sound, commercial CDs, DVDs and podcasts, helping clients tell their stories with sound. He has been described as "an oasis of calm in a stormy creative world"; "quick, creative & easy to work with"; "always going the extra mile"; and "invests himself in the success of your project"’.
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