Avid Pro Tools Reviews & Product Details

quick, easy, editing and professional sound Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

not intuitive for music creation, unless you play an actual instrument Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Pro Tools will do anything. If you know where to find it. It can take a couple of years to learn it fully, and even then you will continue to learn things. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sometimes it crashes. Sometimes there are weird errors. Real time bouncing in previous versions was a pain and we have yet to spend the lump sum to upgrade. Cost. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Seamless on the fly recording and editing, the gold standard for mixing and mastering Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The annual subscription is 300 bucks, would have preferred to just buy the software up front and only pay for upgrades. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I love the low latency and support for many plug-ins. The editing capabilities are also fantastic. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It has a huge learning curve. You also need to have a lot of memory to run this successfully (better to have 16 GB of RAM). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Pro tools is native to use, and allows you to get a very detailed level of sound editing. If you have knowledge of sound editing, and creativity, Pro Tools provides you with the flexibility to create worlds of sounds. Pro allows you to perfect sound by allowing you to edit it, add reverb to add echo and create space, change tone/bass and pitch of voices. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It is not an amateur software. Therefore (like most of Avid's software), the interface is not user friendly. It requires learning how to use the software far beyond navigation. But then again, it is partially since you have so many features available. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Best DAW from beginners to professionals. It's loaded with tons of options to create and edit with one of the most easy workflows out there. Since version 12 came out, I absolutely loved it. If you have time, there are some courses like PT101, 102, 110, etc. I recommend. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Used to dislike the online render but since offline mixdown came out there is no much beeggee with it. I do hate to have to carry the iLok around and I once lost it and had to pay for the new iLok and a fee to transfer the license. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The software is intuitive and easy to edit and mix once you understand the workflow. It's a necessary tool in the audio industry since it is the standard. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

My main issue is that you would need some sort of analog summing bus mixer if you wanted the final exported tracks to be free of minor artifacts. But I'm just particular about that. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I think this is the best DAW out there by far. Been Using it for 7 years. Its easy to use. If you learn the shortcuts, you can work very fast. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The Virtual Instruments could be better, I think there is a lack of variety. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What can be said about Pro Tools that hasn't been said? Though most recognized as a common language for engineers to effectively maneuver between studios and workflows, Pro Tools is undoubtedly agreed upon as one of the most effective DAWs in the majority of production situations for a reason. While its stock program may hold back on included extras such as large plugin and sound libraries like Logic or Ableton, its base utility as a tracking, editing and mixing DAW is unparalleled. From navigation and editing commands to huge time-saving shortcuts, I find myself doing what would take multiple steps or strokes in other DAWs in an instant in Pro Tools. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

While it is the platform that I am most fluent in, it is not without its shortcomings. I look at Pro Tools as a utility-- a tape machine; a console and a cutting room. It isn't a particularly inspiring platform for music creation, it just does what it does. For writing, composing and arranging, the likes of other platforms do a much better job in providing a creative environment for the user. As I would never use say Ableton for a film sound mix, I would never use Pro Tools to create the score itself (their MIDI editing has always seemed tacked on and never fully realized). It is virtually flawless as an audio editor, but for years I was frustrated by the watered-down limitations of prior LE versions of the program. Luckily the latest version of Pro Tools is much more flexible in that it finally includes editing to frames and other previously HD only features. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I love that Pro Tools enables you to perform literally any sort of audio routing needed easily. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I dislike having to rearrange plugins when inserting one into a specific slot in the chain. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.