Thursday, June 28, 2007
New toy!!!
Pretty good price: $708 for both the Mbox2 (an audio interface) and the Pro Tools software which it powers. Plus the other plug-ins for effects. Usually such a pacakge will cost over a thousand. I am saving about $300++ by travelling to Marsiling and whipping out my student card.
I have always wanted to get Pro Tools for my home computer, because it is a necessary software for working music. I use Pro Tools to put the music for the Milly Molly episodes, as well as other multimedia projects. I use Pro Tools to join music tracks together and to check on the sound to ensure everything is well-balanced. Pro Tools is the industry standard, and nothing beats having the software in the comfort of your own home, and being able to easily send files to studios through their servers. It also means that I do not have to stay over at the studio while working on Milly and Molly (because my boss uses the computer in the daytime for his work, so I have to go after hours) and I can work on the cartoon episodes at my own time.
The Mbox is powered via USB, from my laptop. Besides driving Pro Tools it also converts audio to digital signals - there are outlets to plug in microphones, and as you sing into it, the interface will convert your voice into digital signals so that they can be read on Pro Tools. After that you can play around with the recorded voice, like making it sound as if you sucked in helium for instance! Friends who have gone to the studios will have experienced the magic of the sound engineer with his Pro Tools software during the recording sessions.
Pretty good price: $708 for both the Mbox2 (an audio interface) and the Pro Tools software which it powers. Plus the other plug-ins for effects. Usually such a pacakge will cost over a thousand. I am saving about $300++ by travelling to Marsiling and whipping out my student card.
I have always wanted to get Pro Tools for my home computer, because it is a necessary software for working music. I use Pro Tools to put the music for the Milly Molly episodes, as well as other multimedia projects. I use Pro Tools to join music tracks together and to check on the sound to ensure everything is well-balanced. Pro Tools is the industry standard, and nothing beats having the software in the comfort of your own home, and being able to easily send files to studios through their servers. It also means that I do not have to stay over at the studio while working on Milly and Molly (because my boss uses the computer in the daytime for his work, so I have to go after hours) and I can work on the cartoon episodes at my own time.
The Mbox is powered via USB, from my laptop. Besides driving Pro Tools it also converts audio to digital signals - there are outlets to plug in microphones, and as you sing into it, the interface will convert your voice into digital signals so that they can be read on Pro Tools. After that you can play around with the recorded voice, like making it sound as if you sucked in helium for instance! Friends who have gone to the studios will have experienced the magic of the sound engineer with his Pro Tools software during the recording sessions.
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