UAD Thunderbolt Windows

Universal Audio Release Thunderbolt Drivers For Windows 10

About UAD Thunderbolt Compatibility with Windows 10 Systems

UAD v9.0.0 introduces Windows 10 PC compatibility with all Thunderbolt-equipped Apollo and UAD-2 products (Apollo 8, Apollo 8p, Apollo 16 MkII, Apollo Twin Thunderbolt, UAD-2 Satellite Thunderbolt, and first-generation silver Apollo/Apollo 16 models equipped with a Thunderbolt Option Card).
Apollo Thunderbolt models can be combined with UAD-2 PCIe cards and UAD-2 Satellite (Thunderbolt, FireWire, and USB models). For details, see this article.
Both the original Thunderbolt 1 Option Card and the newer Thunderbolt 2 Option Card for Apollo are compatible.
Apollo Thunderbolt cannot be combined with Apollo FireWire or Apollo Twin USB (multiple Apollo connection types are incompatible).
Connecting more than one Apollo unit via Thunderbolt is currently incompatible. This feature will be available in a future software release.

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Using Quadro iPad App With Pro Tools 12

We reported on the release of Quadro (an ipad app to design your own shortcut macros to control your desktop applications) back in December 2015 (read about it here)
Now Music Producer/Sound Engineer and Quadro user developer Dario Messina has created some Pro Tools 12 specific pallets for use with Quadro and kicked off a blog about them.

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Pro Tools 12.6

Pro Tools 12.6 Released

Avid have just released Pro Tools 12.6 Catch up on the details of whats new over on the Avid blog page here, the update is beginning to appear in user accounts who are signed up to a current Avid Update Plan

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Using The Pro Tools Tempo Ruler

Using The Pro Tools Tempo Ruler

Using the Pro Tools Tempo Ruler gives you a lot of creative ways to visually change your session tempo's. It gives you the ability to use multiple different tools and methods to change the tempo. In many ways, using the tempo ruler is similar to writing in track automation.

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izotope neutrino free

Get iZotope Neutrino Plug-In – Free!

iZotope’s new free plug­in, Neutrino, is designed to improve the overall spectral balance of an entire mix by making subtle changes to each individual track on which it’s used, bringing unprecedented balance, clarity, and focus to your mixes. Unlike traditional compressors and equalizers, Neutrino analyzes the incoming audio and applies gentle amounts of dynamics processing across dozens of psychoacoustically spaced frequency bands. It customizes the processing based on four modes: voice, instrument, bass, and drums, to smooth out unwanted peaks across the spectrum transparently, and allows you to adjust the amount and detail of the processing with two simple controls.

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Slate Raven Windows Pro Tools PC

Slate Raven 3.2 For Pro Tools On Windows

Slate Digital have just announced The Raven 3.0 now available for Pro Tools On Windows

The RAVEN Multi-Touch Production Console for Avid PRO TOOLS makes the entire workstation BECOME a world class control surface. Get access to multi-touch ultra responsive faders, instantly touch your actual plugins and tweak the like hardware, and speed up your workflow with the RAVEN's digital assistant, Batch Commander.

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Identify Beat in Pro Tools Video Tutorial

How to Identify a Tempo In Pro Tools

In this video we tackle a common task you may be asked to perform as an engineer (or for personal needs). We take an audio track and identify the session tempo from it. There are few different reasons of wanting to find the tempo. A grid to edit with, to sync time base effects such as delays, to program VI's to play along with the audio, are a few examples. In this video we go over how to identify a tempo in Pro Tools.

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