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Over-100-Free-Pro-Tools-Plugins.jpg?format=750w' alt='Plugin Pro Tools' title='Plugin Pro Tools' />Ableton Live versus Pro Tools. Live Pro Tools. Having been an Ableton Live user for so many years,  I recently gave Pro Tools a shot. Why I had heard a lot of good about it in terms of its editing and mixing capabilities thats my job and thats what I do a lot on my freetime as well, so I wanted to check PT out. I ended up liking it, and prior to writing this, I put an order in, which means Ill definitely be using it alongside Live. I felt it might be interesting to jot down points about the differences between Live and PT as I go as well as some shortcomings of both to this day, a perfect DAW probably does not exist. I didnt want to go super deep, but just make notes of all Ah this is great or This sucks moments. Id like to emphasize that this post is not trying to be an exhaustive feature list or such in any ways after all, Ive only had PT on my hard drive for around a week. Id proudly call myself an Ableton Live expert, but Im a Pro Tools newbie. By now, Ive mastered around ten songs in PT after having set up my mastering chain in it, and Ive done some mixing, too. I think now,  after a few days of using PT, is the perfect time to write about my first impressions because, to be honest, the list Ive been quickly compiling in my notepad would grow to quite a length in a month. Another thing I need to emphasize here is that some of the points I make may appear really irrelevant and minor to some, but please keep in mind that the small things or annoyances may be huge to those who work with audio every single day, handling multiple projects, always facing the limitations etc., which do end up getting annoying in the long run. Mixing and mastering is my job, and I make a lot of music, so those things do matter, and this is mostly written from that perspective. I do not have a point this is all just a how Im feeling about Pro Tools after having used Ableton Live daily for so many years type of postithout further ado, Ill cut to the chase. Ill list the points in two groups pros and cons about Pro Tools as opposed to Live. I understand that there may be some points about PT that I have misunderstood due to my lack of experience in it, and Id absolutely love it if readers corrected me on anything I have said that is not true TBH, Id benefit from thatTHE PROSWHATS GREAT ABOUT PRO TOOLS FOR MEPlugin groups. Grouped plugins. Been craving for this for so long seeing relevant plugins in categories. You automatically get lists for EQ, dynamics, harmonicsthis is super handy. At some point I went thru the trouble of actually listing all my plugins in categories on notepad so Id take a look at it every time I wanted a saturator, for example, to see my saturation options. Nice, clear view after Strip Silence Strip Silence. What this does is it chops off the silent parts of clips. Now this is a HUGE factor for me because I do mixing for clients, and I always end up doing some housekeeping first so that Im only seeing a clip if there is audio on a track as opposed to seeing all tracks in equal length even when a clip is silent every now and then, a client asks me to turn up the swoosh that only happens once, around 3 4. When a client sends you loads of tracks, it really makes viewing the project much lighter when what you see is what you hear and when not seeing silent parts at all. TBH this alone is almost a selling point for me as I dont have to go and do manual chopping to the stems I receive. Stem names track names. Another biggie.  For mixing, I get anywhere between 1. Massey Plugins Inc. Pro Tools. Plugin Alliance is a new berstandard, supporting all major plugin formats and uniting some of the bestknown international audio companies under one virtual. Comprehensive. UpdraftPlus is a complete, generalpurpose backup and restore plugin with more features and advanced tools than any rival. Motion Picture Software Tools. Glue Tools. Motion Picture Software Tools. Not finding what you need in Pro Tools Tutorials, articles, and additional download content is available to help you create exactly the project you imagined. Home Font Encoders FileMaker Pro Barcode Plugin Font Encoder and Tutorial. FileMaker Pro Barcode Font Encoder Plugin. Generate barcodes in FileMaker databases. What I do is I dragdrop them on the sequencer. PT names the tracks based on the audio you drop on them, while on Live its Track 1, Track 2Track 3. No file junk. PT does not create additional clip specific files on your HD for you to see, whereas Live creates. Plano Casa Interes Social Autocad on this page. Finder into DAW, your Finder folder view fills up and gets really cluttered from all the. Live creates, and I always end up hiding them via Terminal. Again, unnecessary extra work. If only you could have Live automatically hide them Plugin presets in PT1. Compatible with most native DAWs Bridges Pro Tools HD and HDX DSP with the SoundGrid DSP server in order to process plugins in low latency while recording. Compose Pixel Texturing and ASCII Effects with Adaptive Tiling in After Effects, Final Cut Pro, Motion, Premiere Pro. Pro Hands. Track hands fingers with Leap Motion OpenVR Recorder. HTC Vive Oculus Rift using SteamVR Pro PointCloud v1. Kinect for Windows v1 Kinect for XBox360. Plugin Pro Tools' title='Plugin Pro Tools' />Live. This is great, and definitely speeds up my workflow at least. Group edits. What this means that in PT, if you assign tracks to a group, you can perform functions that will be applied to all tracks in the group and this is done without you having to select all tracks. You only have to select one track in the group when group is selected from the group list. Skype Mac Sierra more. This is great if you have, say, 8 tracks of drum recording and you want to chop a piecetime off. Just activate the group, select the region on one track, and chop no need to select all tracks great if you minimize tracks to save space and cant see them all. Also applies to mixing functions volume, pan, etc when you do that to any track. You can deselect the group at any time to apply individual edits to a track, of course. Additional_Plugins.png' alt='Plugin Pro Tools' title='Plugin Pro Tools' />Track info text fields. In PT, these can always be seen for all tracks if you wish. In Live, you need to enter info text mode, and you cant see them all in one go. This is really handy for writing track specific notes in mixing. Clip scrubbing. This is great when you want to try and find hear a certain spot in audio. Live has this, too, but it applies to all tracks and is done from the ruler above the sequencer, not thru a clip. Clip gain. In PT, you can show a clip gain track which is very track automation like. I love it. No need to go and access the clip itself in any way you see the gain of all clips in one handy view. Nudging clips. Basically you select a clip and you can nudge it by the selected nudge grid value you can do this from the keyboard. Always wanted this. Hide tracks. In projects with several tracks, there will be moments when you start feeling youre done with some tracks and youd love to hide them just for clarity. PT makes that a breeze, while Live cannot do this. Proper dedicated mixer view. PT allows you to have a clear, big mixer view, which lives in its own window, and you can freely place it anywhere and make it as big or small as you want. You can also have PT arrange the arrangement and mixer windows so that they both nicely take up half of the screen, for example. Or you can set the sizes yourself. This is huge for someone coming from Live, not seeing arrangement and proper mixer strips at the same time. Seeing all plugins Seeing all tracks and plugins at the same time. In the pic above, theres just a drum track and the master track, and Im testing an analogue emulation plugin on both, flicking them both on and off to hear what its doing. Easy, as it should be. Live only allows you to view the plugins of one track at a time, which can be a bit annoying at times. I like a good overview of whats where. Recalling open plug in windows. In mastering, I often tend to keep certain plug in windows open limiter, multiband exciter, analyzerand I love it that if I leave them open in PT and save the project, they will be open just as I left them the next time I load the project. Live does not do this, and I always have the manually re open them. Floating fader. At times youd like to see a certain channel strip in its own space for a clearer view of whatever channel youre having a closer look at. This allows you to access basic mixer functions. You can also select which track youre seeing. Handy. PT remembersunderstands project specific bounce locations. Lets say you master a track. You want to bounce it. PT offers you to bounce it into the project folder.