August2011

Soundminer HD now supports the iLok and there’s a special offer too…

Soundminer HD Now for ILOK $199US and tons of features and for a limited time, add Soundminer Ripper for Mac to any HD or v4 purchase for $100!! Now, unlimited databases even in HD Basic too!!   And it s now available for iLok!!

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Pro Tools 9.0.5 Updates Now Available – Includes Beta Support for Lion

Pro Tools 9.0.5 Update for Owners of Pro Tools 9.0 and Pro Tools HD 9.0 on Mac and Windows Pro Tools and Pro Tools HD 9.0.5 software on computers with Mac OS X 10.6.x (Snow Leopard) and Windows 7 (32-bit or 64-bit) Pro Tools and Pro Tools HD 9.0.5 beta software on computers with Mac OS X 10.7.x (Lion) Pro Tools 9.0.5 is an officially qualified and recommended update for all Pro Tools 9 and Pro Tools HD 9 users on Mac OS X 10.6.x (Snow Leopard) and Windows 7. Although not officially qualified, Pro Tools 9.0.5 also adds public beta support for Apple's OS X Lion operating system.

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Mac OS X compatibility Alert

Avid released the following a little while back and it is still in place.... Apple has released OS X Lion (Mac OS X 10.7). As of this writing Pro Tools 9 and all earlier versions of Pro Tools software are not compatible and will not work with OS X Lion. We are currently working with Apple in order to provide a compatible release of Pro Tools and will notify you as soon as this work has completed.

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Avid confirm Mac OS X 10.6.8 is officially qualified

Avid is pleased to announce that Mac OS X 10.6.8 and the supplemental update "10.6.8v1.1" is officially qualified with the following versions of Pro Tools 8.0.5 and 9.0.3: Pro Tools HD, LE, and M-Powered 8.0.5 Pro Tools 9.0.3 Pro Tools HD 9.0.3 HD Native cards with Pro Tools HD 9.0.4*

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“Rome Calling” videos from TC Electronic seminar on Loudness in broadcasting

This is what TC Electronic had to say in their recent newsletter.... Our ‘Rome Calling’ pro-audio seminar in early June was a great success! The Eternal City created a perfect frame for the event, and the keynote speakers willingly shared all of their expertise on recording, mixing, mastering and broadcasting with the participants.

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5 day training course on 5.1 Surround and Loudness for OSN in Dubai

As well as making programmes and knowing a bit about Pro Tools we also provide a variety of media related audio courses which we taylor to each client's needs. We were approached by Orbit Showtime Network to run a 5 day training course for their audio department to help them to start producing their content in surround especially for their HD channels.

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Human Kind – The story of scientist George Price

Just before I went on holiday I worked on a very interesting programme called Human Kind all about an incredible guy called George Price Matthew Taylor tells the story of the last eight years in the life of George Price - a scientist who studied the evolution of altruism and who suffered for his faith. With contributions from Price's biographer Oren Harman, writer Marek Kohn, Professor Steve Jones and Price's family and friends, Matthew follows a journey that began with a sensational breakthrough in evolutionary biology and ended in poverty and suicide. Audio Editor: Mike Thornton Producer: Peter Everett.

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iLok Dongle

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.     iLok Dongle - 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?

  • 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
  • About Me

    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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