When was pro tools 8 released

For the best experience on our site, be sure to turn on Javascript in your browser. Avid has just released its latest Pro Tools The big announcement with this release is clearly the native support for Dolby Atmos which it does by supporting 7. Furthermore it also includes a universal panner which now includes the height axis for both stems and Dolby metadata and support for the ADM BWAV file format.

Pro Tools By integrating Dolby Atmos directly in Pro Tools Avid has also taken the opportunity to upgrade the Avid S6 software which can now add 3D panning control by combining the joystick to control X and Y axis while the Z axis is controlled by a knob next to them.

With the lukewarm response of the collaboration aspect of Pro Tools, Avid have made a few changes that should help the process. Among the many changes in Pro Tools 8 is completely redesigned user interface. While the new interface includes updated graphics and a new color palette, there is much more to the redesign than colors.

The Edit window now has a fully customizable toolbar that lets the user arrange elements like the transport window and buttons in a way that makes sense for your working environment. There were a significant number of Avid video related improvements for all the versions of Pro Tools 7. Support was added to enable the co-installation of Avid Xpress Pro The user interface received a facelift, changing from white to grey which was believed to be more pleasant for the eyes.

Elastic Pitch provided a simple pitch correction option and the Universe View provided an overview of the entire session, with the waveforms displayed in more detail with bit resolution. Pro Tools 8 brought us the Quickstart window for the first time. This provided immediate access to the two most common tasks needed when starting to work: creating a new Session and opening an existing one.

These included templates that offered useful starting points for a number of different situations and were organised into categories such as Guitar, Music and Songwriter.

Digidesign gave Pro Tools what was described at the time as a "fresh, modern, and slightly flatter appearance and redesigned icons".

Although the layout remained basically the same, the Edit window saw a lot of tweaks to make things clearer and easier for users. For example, the toolbar immediately stood out as looking different and offered many functional improvements whilst keeping the same basic operation, and this ethos applied to most parts of the redesign. Multiple lanes for one track came to Pro Tools with V8. Rather than only being able to see and edit a single type of data on a track at a time, tracks in the Edit window now offered multiple automation lanes, making it possible to work with multiple automation parameters — and even playlists — simultaneously.

Clicking this revealed or concealed automation lanes beneath that particular track. Colouring tracks became much easier to do with Pro Tools 8. The Colour Palette window now offered a Saturation slider as well as a more general brightness slider, which was useful if you preferred the lighter look of Pro Tools 7 to adjust the amount of a track's colour that could be applied to its background in the Edit and Mix windows.

Pro Tools 8 marked the first time you could graphically edit MIDI data outside the confines of a track lane in the Edit window.

Digidesign also included the ability to display notation in the MIDI Editor which was great for those who think in score notational rather than piano roll and Pro Tools made use of the same Opus music fonts used by Sibelius. Unlike Xpand! However, in order to support the improved MIDI editing capabilities of Pro Tools 8, the AIR group developed a brand-new set of instruments that formed the centrepiece of the new Creative Collection bundle which was supplied with every copy of Pro Tools.

But that was only half of the solution. The other half was the rotary speaker emulation with an additional page of 'cabinet' controls that let you set the speed of the rotation, along with other controls for the preamp and mic placing, where you could adjust the mix between the drum and the horn, as well as the simulated stereo spread. Next was a monophonic synth called Vacuum, which was a virtual analogue synth with what was referred to as 'Vacuum Tube Synthesis' designed to bring the characteristics of vacuum tubes to a synthesizer.

Finally was Xpand! The new version offered over patches, compared with around in the original, and the user interface was redesigned, with all the settings implemented on a single page.

Each of the four available Parts in a patch now had individually accessible arpeggiator and modulation parameters, making it possible to edit such parameters for one part without having to switch the whole interface. Phil Jackson was on hand to explain the new features in Pro Tools 8 in his own special style - 'nice' The remodelled Icon offered the same workflows and HD integration as the original D-Control, the ES featured updated text graphics and switch colours, which provided better visibility in low-light environments.

Rich Nevens, Digidesign's director of professional console sales said at the time This growing family of dedicated users continues to be one of our greatest development resources, providing feedback that has already helped us to deliver a number of key hardware and software enhancements for the ICON family.

Today it is with our users' feedback in mind that we are pleased to offer yet another important evolution in the ongoing development of the ICON range.

It was not sold separately, or available for download, or intended for use with any other products. It could handle up to 3 plug-ins per track and Undo or redo up to 10 operations. It was actually all three of these and more. The Eleven Rack could be used as a stand-alone guitar processor—without the need for a computer—for live applications.

It included emulations of classic guitar amps, cabinets and stompboxes, as well as a collection of rackmount effects processors and microphone emulations. You could incorporate your favourite stompboxes and effects into the Eleven Rack with the integrated effects loop that could be assigned and moved almost anywhere within the signal chain.

The input impedance of a guitar amplifier can be an important factor in determining its sound, as the input places an electrical load on the pickups, changing how both the amp and the guitar react to playing.

The Eleven Rack allowed a guitarist to use exactly the same sounds live as in recording and allowed the recording of the clean DI signal at the same time as the processed sound, all with zero latency. Some time ago Eleven Rack guru James Ivey Jivey created a series of free video tutorials showing how to get iconic guitar sounds from top artists.

They are completely free, no strings attached It is the oldest current Avid product that has not been given an end of life date by Avid and you can still find it on the Avid website. The smaller sibling remodelled Icon offered the same workflows and HD integration as the original D-Command, the ES featured updated text graphics and switch colours, which provided better visibility in low-light environments. To announce the changes Avid published an open letter explaining it all New website launching April 12th - Many of you told us that we needed to improve the navigation, organisation, and the overall user experience of digidesign.

In order to make these improvements, a major overhaul was necessary. Why move the website to Avid. What will the new site be like? It will feature completely new navigation and organization, making it easier and faster to find what you want.

Is the Digidesign name going away? After talking with many of you, we discovered that most people identify more with the product names—such as Pro Tools, VENUE, ICON—instead of the company name actually, there are some people who thought the name of the company was Pro Tools, so go figure….

What is happening to the Digidesign team? We just have a different logo on our letterhead. Why is the Digidesign name being retired?

Our new brand strategy is to combine everything under the Avid name. This will help us streamline operations and become a healthier company—which frees up more resources for product development.

What does this mean for the Digidesign product lines? Moving forward, audio and video are going to be equally important for Avid. What does this mean for the M-Audio and Sibelius websites? But for now, those sites will continue to operate independently just as usual.

We truly appreciate your loyalty and continued support, and hope you take some time to explore the new website on April 12th.