Why “Pro Tools” is Considered To Be The Best

By:Mark Kenoly ¦ Producer, Song Writer, Musical Artist ¦ https://www.kenolymusic.com

Manyprofessionals in the audio industry today have an opinion about digital audio workstations (DAWs). Sure, there are very good DAWs out there. Logic Pro X, Ableton Live, PreSonus, Reason, Digital Performer, Cubase, Cakewalk, FL Studio, and many more. There are solid arguments for every one of them. Still, ever since its first release, one DAW has ruled them all in professional musicians, audio engineers, and recording studios worldwide. That product is PRO TOOLS (PT). More hit records have been created on PT than any other recording software. I want to share some of the reasons I exclusively use Pro Tools.

Graphic User Interface (GUI)

The GUI for PT makes sense. Many other GUIs can be challenging to figure out. There are a lot of controls on some of them that need to be more logical in the design. If you take a few minutes to look at Pro Tools, you can see that the flow was well thought out and designed. That was my first reaction when I moved to Pro Tools from an old OPCODE VST program many years ago. Although I loved Opcode and Pro Tools was different, I understood why Digidesign created and designed its functionality. I was a Funk-R&B style writer and producer who used a lot of push and anticipation in my productions. I relied heavily on the grid to know where I was in the production. I found Pro Tools easier to orchestrate my pushes and anticipations, which made my music funkier and more fun.

MIDI ARTICULATION and QUANTIZE

Pro Tools gives you a triplet option and a dotted eight-note quantize. The two can be mixed in certain sections of the song. That helped me a lot when producing hip-hop beats and grooves with a little-bit- of-swing. I often use midi in my productions because I am not that great of a keyboard player. For the record, I am a gold and platinum record bass player with a long list of credits. Quantization helps me accurately work out different parts of the drum groove. In nearly every production, I mix midi tracks with live tracks. I’ll play a bass track live over a midi track and then bring in a hot guitar player live to give it that full natural feel. Pro Tools even has a feature where you can take an audio waveform of drums and extract a midi track automatically with the exact natural feel. Then save that template to use on other songs. I did that with my favorite drummer. It’s still in my database for PT sessions.

Elastic Audio

One of the most incredible and powerful features PT has ever created is Elastic Audio. It can manipulate audio wave files by tempo, pitch, independent discrete timing, transpose and other things I still need to explore and use. Other DAW software can do some form of audio wave manipulation, but no one has it as effective and natural sounding as Pro Tools. I have used it to fix old track timing and performances to near perfection.

These are just a few of my reasons for using Pro Tools. If you would like a demonstration of PT’s creative superiority, email me, and I’ll set up a demonstration of why you should use PRO TOOLS to create your music. kenolymusic@gmail.com