Pro Tools Recording Studio Make Music Now Studio

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Brand: M-Audio
Category: Musical Instruments

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Seller: Electronica Direct
Rating: 3.0 out of 5 stars

10 reviews
Sales Rank: 336

Platforms: Windows XP, Mac OS X, Windows Vista, Windows 7
Media: CD-ROM
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.2
Dimensions (in): 7.3 x 7 x 2.3

MPN: 82501000951
Model: 82501000951
UPC: 613570226147
EAN: 0613570226147
ASIN: B002P3KINE

Release Date: September 15, 2009
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days

Features:

•	Everything you need to start creating, mixing and recording your music
•	M-Audio Fast Track USB audio interface provides input for microphone, guitar, or other instrument
•	Pro Tools M-Powered Essential software enables you to record, edit and produce with the creative power of Pro Tools
•	Instantly turn your Mac or PC into a full-featured recording studio
•	Create songs in minutes--included templates and loops let you make music in any style
•	Smash through the ceiling of your musical creativity with Pro Tools Recording Studio.
•	Easily create, play, mix and record your music with the same platform professionals use to produce much of the most popular music
•	Plug in standard guitars, microphones and other instruments to play and record your music directly to your PC or Mac

M-Audio Fast Track USB Audio Interface

Record guitar, vocals and more

Capture pristine digital sound for any recording project with Fast Track USB--whether your guitar is plugged right into the computer or you’re using a standard microphone.

Professional quality audio interface

Create a hit song or soundtrack with M-Audio technology, previously only available to the pros. With far superior sound than standard-issue PC audio cards, Fast Track USB delivers a high quality, skin-tingling audio experience--even if you’re just listening.

Connect directly to your PC or Mac

Make music now when you plug in your guitar, microphone or other instruments into our USB interface that connects to your Mac or PC. Fully experience high quality digital sound when you listen to playback on headphones plugged right into the interface.

Create the perfect sound

Adjust your input levels with the included Pro Tools M-Powered Essential software to achieve the perfect sound for your track.

Pro Tools M-Powered Essential Software

Pro Tools M-Powered Essential gives you easy access to many of the same Pro Tools software features that professionals use every day to create Grammy award-winning albums, Emmy award-winning television shows, and Academy Award-winning films. This easy-to-use software lets you create pro-sounding mixes with up to 16 mono or stereo audio tracks. You also get 60+ virtual instrument sounds to play and record, plus EQ and other effects to make your mixes sound professionally produced. It even comes with over 5.5 GB of music-making tools to help you get started instantly.

Play, mix and record with the creative power of Pro Tools

Create incredible music right out of the box with the platform the professionals use to record, edit and produce much of the most popular music in the world.

Get inspired with a treasure trove of loops

Go from casual playing or singing to full-blown music production in styles ranging from hip-hop and funk to pop, jazz, rock and blues. Or, use our vast library of drum and instrument loops as an ideal springboard for practicing, jamming or songwriting.

Plug it in

Texture your sound with the rich coloring of the SansAmp tube amplifier simulator. Simply plug your guitar into the included Fast Track USB interface and you'll feel like you're playing on the real thing.

Customer Reviews:

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A beginner's studio. January 17, 2010
Isiah S. Davis (Cleveland)
14 out of 14 found this review helpful

I bought this so I could record my guitar playing on my computer and use the included Pro Tools software to create backing tracks to play to, and for my needs it has performed well. The audio interface really is high quality, and it is useful no matter what kind of audio software you like to use. I like the Pro Tools M-Powered Essential software as well, with the included virtual instruments and loops I can create quality backing tracks for my guitar playing. Buy this, a dynamic mic for vocals and a midi keyboard for the Virtual Instruments and your home studio will be good to go.
P.S.
here is a great Midi Keyboard: M-Audio Pro Tools Keystudio

5 out of 5 stars

Great Piee of Equipment July 9, 2010
J. Jones (Glendale, AZ, USA)
My Grandson said this was a fantastic piece of equipment for where he currently is in his music career.

4 out of 5 stars

Entry Level, but good quality March 4, 2010
Guitar Johnny (Florida)
7 out of 7 found this review helpful

I just bought this as a way to get my feet wet and begin to learn Pro Tools. There are probably easier to learn DAWs out there than Pro Tools, but I like the fact that studios use Pro Tools and two others in my band have Pro Tools home recording systems. I also like the fact that Pro Tools models the functions of a real studio mixer rather than trying to invent their own paradigm.

One word of warning: for home recording you will want the best quality condenser mic you can afford. Condenser mics pretty much always require phantom power and this M-audio box, being pretty entry level, does not support that. You can either use a lesser mic that does not require phantom power, or you can go out and find some kind of direct box that will give the mic power from your A/C socket in the wall, but you won't be able to just plug-and-go with a good condenser mic. I haven't sorted this problem out yet so I can't advise.

Also, I have tried recording direct in from guitar and I don't recommend it. The built in preamp on the M-Audio box is ONLY for the mic. If you plug into the direct input channel (i.e. input 2) there is no gain control either on the M-Audio box nor on the mixing board in Pro Tools. The input level is whatever your guitar puts out. Yes, there's a button on the back of the box for recording guitar, but this the problem is even with that gain boost enabled.

I think the way to get around that is to play through an amplifier and mic it, or else play through some kind of pre-amp and put higher levels into the input of the M-Audio box, but again I haven't worked around this problem yet.

So, you probably can't beat this for the price, but it might not be as brain-dead simple as it first appears.

4 out of 5 stars

Good product, bad 64-bit drivers June 3, 2010
Lee Mayhew (Dallas, TX)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful

So admittedly I should have done more research before making this purchase. I found Windows 7 64-bit drivers on M-Audio's website, so I assumed (and we know what that does, right?!) that they were good drivers. Wrong! Spent a couple days troubleshooting and reading forums before I just decided that the 64-bit drivers were not ready for primetime. Lots of popping, feedback, and latency, which should not have been happening on my quad core system w/4 gigs of RAM.

Fortunately I'm PC savvy and had an extra WinXP license, so I set up my system to dual-boot Win 7 64-bit and Win XP 32-bit. Installed ProTools and the interface on the XP partition, and Voila! Perfection! A little inconvenient to have to reboot when I want to record, but I don't really multitask while recording anyway, so no big deal.

So now I'm very pleased with the product. My only "criticism", if you can call it that, is that the software really is pro quality, so the learning curve is substantial for a recording n00b like me, but I'm figuring it out.

I almost sprung for the MK11 version with the phantom power, but for my needs I figured I could get by without any fancy condenser mics for a while, so I save some cash and got the Fast Track USB.

Hope this helps!

4 out of 5 stars

beware vista users May 25, 2010
Ofer Amram
1 out of 1 found this review helpful

the product itself is very good with cool loops and instraments to add to your music creations. the only downside of it is that for my computer (which is windows vista), once the program is installed, my computer continually crashes. im not sure if it was just my computer that was negatively affected by the product or if its all vista computer, but this is the problem i had. i havent seen any other complaints like mine so it may just be my computer. But overall, the product itself is very good.

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