![]() ![]() The primary distinction is the hardware they complement. There are actually three flavors of Pro Tools, all of which share the same user interface and file format. One of the big players in professional audio recording is still Digidesign's Pro Tools. Now every leading recording studio software runs on both popular platforms, PC and Mac. Some ownership changes also occurred: Digidesign was acquired by Avid, Sony acquired Sonic Foundry, Emagic was acquired by Apple, Adobe acquired Syntrillium's Cool Edit Pro software and changed its name to Adobe Audition, and Steinberg was acquired by Pinnacle. Pro Tools 6.0 for OSX become available in 2003. Cubase SX and Logic Audio were also released for OSX. ![]() Digidesign introduced Pro Tools HD (sampling at 96/192 kHz) in 2002 when new operating system for Mac, OSX become available. At the same time Logic Audio was the most popular sequencer on the Mac platform. It's user interface was simple and powerful for either recording, editing or mixing audio. Pro Tools 5.1 proved it's capability of recording MIDI sequences and audio tracks. ![]() At that time Pro Tools became a standard for professional recording studio software. Pro Tools offered surround audio in 2002. It offered 96 kHz recording and 5.1 surround audio. At that time Cubase VST, Logic Audio and Pro Tools were all available on the PC platform. In 1990s Pro Tools introduced 64-track system MIX with 16/24 bit audio at 44.1 or 48 kHz. Emagic and Mark of the Unicorn also accepted the plug-in approach. Third-party developers welcomed the plug-in feature and a new market emerged. Steinberg worked on MIDI + Audio sequencers like Cubase VST ( Virtual Studio Technology ). Later in the 90s Cubase VST (Steinberg ) and Logic Audio (Emagic) both implemented the notation features.Ĭomputers became faster with more RAM and disk capacity so the next trend was multi-track recording. It was a score writing package which was also ported to Mac and PC. There was also one not so popular microcomputer, the Acorn Archimedes with an interesting software called Sibelius. It was Opcode's Studio Vision and used Digidesign's Sound Tools hardware for audio. In 1990 the first MIDI and Audio sequencer was introduced. It was a two-track recorder/editor used with Q-Sheet software. In 1989 Digidesign introduced one of the first hard disk audio recording systems Sound Tools. Cubase and Notator were also ported to Mac and PC platform. However, at that time PCs with first Windows were not so stable as these days and many musicians preferred Mac for which CODA's Finale software appeared at the end of 1980s. Steinberg Cubase and Emagic Notator were first developed for Atari ST.įirst PC software applications were Cakewalk MIDI sequencer and the SCORE music notation package. Designed as a gaming computer with graphical user interface it featured also MIDI I/O and it was cheaper than Mac. Mark of the Unicorn developed Performer, the first sequencer for Macintosh.įor the history of MIDI sequencers Atari ST was also important. It had widows with icons and a mouse pointer. A real breakthrough was Macintosh with graphical user interface. Various software sequencers were written for Commodore C64, Sinclair ZX Spectrum and Apple II. MIDI started to emerge, Yamaha introduced the DX7 synthesizer, some samplers like Akai S1000 were very poplar, and first music software applications were written for microcomputers popular at that time. The 1980s was a very important decade for music production and recording. Both are used in professional recording studios with plethora of complex software applications. Now we have two main streams of personal computing: PC and MAC. This was due to limitations of computers at that time. ![]() First music software applications were promising but from today's perspective they were very modest. When computers found their way into homes they were used for every possible and imaginable task. ![]()
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