: I can't unistall pro tools I downloaded it from the internet , I tried everything to unistall it, the add/remove way and I could not unistall it. Could you send me an e_mail telling me how to unistall it please

on the AMCC chip reads 5933 then Q or QC, or QE. You need a QC or QE revision to work with a G3 or G4.

Hope that helps.

: I just bought an Audiomedia III card off of someone and it keeps freezing my Mac - sometimes when I startup and sometimes when I try to open Pro Tools . I have a Mac G4 - dual 450 - Silver/blue

: any ideas?

: This Software Not only crashes like each time you run it , but also It crashes your computer to the max where pushing Control+Alt+Del doesnt even work.One time it crashed my computer where i couldn't even boot to windows!!! ..and i have a pretty powerful computer with 512 Mb of Ram!! Screw this Software Everybody Be Warned ..Stay away from this ill-programmed software

I wish I had read this before I downloaded the program because this guy knows what he is talking about it does crash every time. thanks dog

: I needed at recorder/mixer better than what I got w/ the creative sound card software but after reading the comments here I think I'll just skip pro-tools.
: Like they say their is no such thing as a free lunch and like the other person said Aids is free but who wants it.

You can run PT Free on a PII/128Mb, those are the minimun specs you need.

Its still the first generation of PT Free, Digidesign planned a XP compatible version of PT Free.
Btw, its not the Digidegisn programmers that lack the skills, but its Windows itself!!
The Windows OS is good for surfing the web, running office, do paperwork, ...
But it lacks performence and power when it comes to heavy duty tasks such as audio and video production.!!
Ever used Adobe Premiere on Windows? No power at all!! Go get a G4, install Final Cut Pro and buckle up for because its gonna be one hell off a ride!! I garantee you that!!

So, the bottemline is.
I sugest you buy a Mac, there you got a real powerhouse!!

Once you go Mac, you never go back!!

There are many many more people who totally agree to their monopoly and sick marketing. Here in India too they have captured the martket and engineers are blindly going for pro tools without analyzing the other options. I am a pro engineer and have been using Nuendo and felt that that is a FAR SUPERIOR software compared to protools. Only keep in mind that you must use a good Sound card to get good quality.

Good luck

Sanjeev

: I should be the one to have the guts to tell all of you that Degidesign's sleek advertising and monopoly over the music software business is sickening. Degidesign started as a hardware company and very recently developed this "Control" software for their hardware called protools which evolved into you know the rest...Its really much ado about nothing.There are so many Far superior products on the market like EMU PARIS , RED , CREAMWARE PULSAR and SCOPE ,etc.The reason Protools is praised by many ,is because Protools system is mostly made of a very quality hardware and Protools is just a CONTROL software for that hardware and Nothing else and even that in mind the cost of that hardware is not justified it is super expensive because IT IS PURE HYPE !! Anyone who would spend 40.000 something Dollars on that system is wasting his money. Especially one that bothers me the most is PROCONTROL surface. This thing costs about $10.000 for 8-Fader pack and you have to have at least 4 of them for a decent setup and without the software this is a $40.000 Doorstop!.Itis basicly a fancy midi controller. How Stupid You have to be , to allow this company charge you that much money for a midi controller?.With $40.000 you can put together one hell of a professional studio , just buy something like Sony DMX-R100 Digital Mixer and couple of 24/96K Hard disk recorders High quality Preamps like Focusrite and You should still have money left for the top of the line Neumann Mics.. Please Do not buy the hype and Most importantly Protools Free is a very clever promotional TRAPP that Degidesign Put together to get more people be familiar with the user interface so that in future if they go into professional engineering , they would have the tendency to buy this so called "INDUSTRY STANDARD ' software...There is no such thing as Industry Standard...Good Recording Engineer can make the best of whatever tools he is given even if its a Portastudio!!...

PROTOOLS HD MÝGHT BE EXPENSÝVE. uNFORTUNATELY ý USE THE LÝGHT VERSÝON 001le AND I REALLY DONT NEED MORE OF IT. YOU MAY NEED MORE TRACKS TO WORK ON SIMULTANEOUSLY... SO, ITS UP TO YOU. BUT 32 TRACKS, IF NOT MIXING THE SOUNDS OF STAR WARS MOVIES, IS GOOD FOR MANY WHO KNOWS WHAT TO DO.
PROTOOLS HD? MAY BE.. BUT NO NEED THE CONTROL SURFACE. BE CLEVER AND YOU CAN PAY LESS AND GET THE HD VERSION MUCH CHEAPER

Disclaimer: I generally find Protools overpriced and annoying too.

>I should be the one to have the guts to tell all of you that Degidesign's sleek advertising and monopoly over the music software business is sickening. Degidesign started as a hardware company and very recently developed this "Control" software for their hardware called protools which evolved into you know the rest...

Very recently? When did digidesign sell digital audio workstation hardware without software?

>Its really much ado about nothing.There are so many Far superior products on the market like EMU PARIS , RED , CREAMWARE PULSAR and SCOPE ,etc.

I won't disagree that Protools is way overpriced and doesn't deliver what some others can provide for a lot less in some performance categories. But you're comparing apples and oranges in some cases up there: e.g. How is Creamware Pulsar II, which doesn't even include DAW-style non-linear editing software (TripleDat is an optional plugin...), comparable to a software/hardware package that is designed solely for that purpose, like Protools?

>The reason Protools is praised by many ,is because Protools system is mostly made of a very quality hardware and Protools is just a CONTROL software for that hardware and Nothing else

Uh... Not sure what to make of that. Your statement is rougly like saying that an electric guitar is a glorified control surface for a guitar amp, or that Photoshop is simply a piece of control software for your video card & cpu. From a certain respect, the statements are true in both cases. (The guitar itself doesn't make any significant noise; the video card and the cpu do all the calculations and displaying) But this betrays a familiar black-box attitude about such systems (that I would quite frankly have expected more from a Protools fan, typically someone who simply wants to avoid the technical details at all costs, practical matters be damned!) Although integration of boxes of third-party dsp processor and d/a and a/d doesn't just happen by itself, most of the real procedural design is in the software end. In any case, given what Protools does without any specialized hardware at all (e.g. Mix and Free releases), it can't be entirely insignificant...

>and even that in mind the cost of that hardware is not justified it is super expensive because IT IS PURE HYPE !! Anyone who would spend 40.000 something Dollars on that system is wasting his money.

I don't see how one would realisticly spend that much on a reasonably-sized system.

>Especially one that bothers me the most is PROCONTROL surface. This thing costs about $10.000 for 8-Fader pack and you have to have at least 4 of them for a decent setup and without the software this is a $40.000 Doorstop!.Itis basicly a fancy midi controller. How Stupid You have to be , to allow this company charge you that much money for a midi controller?

Oh, I agree that this particular product is a white elephant, designed for sites with the buy now, upgrade often fetish. However, you're prone to bad assumptions (The list price of a fader pack is about 6k$... you don't actually need to buy four base units) and hyperbole (your typical midi controller doesn't come with 10 to 24 bit interpolated faders with full automation support).

>With $40.000 you can put together one hell of a professional studio , just buy something like Sony DMX-R100 Digital Mixer and couple of 24/96K Hard disk recorders High quality Preamps like Focusrite and You should still have money left for the top of the line Neumann Mics..

Now, let's suppose that you don't need the anal-retentive control function automation of procontrol, which I'm guessing you don't (since your choices of digital audio software and recording hardware suggest a preference for solutions that work as much like a dumb multitrack tape style set up as possible, even if a DAW setup would likely reduce effort by an order of magnitude. Okay: how about a Focusrite/Digidesign Control|24 ($8K list), which has, among other things, full mix automation support and a bunch of preamps. Or you can get something else even more affordable and with a few more channels of fader from third-party companies. (Because, despite being picky about audio I/O interfaces, Protools has wide third-party control surface support.)

>Please Do not buy the hype and Most importantly Protools Free is a very clever promotional TRAPP that Degidesign Put together to get more people be familiar with the user interface so that in future if they go into professional engineering ,

I'll ignore the blatant term theft hyperbole...

> they would have the tendency to buy this so called "INDUSTRY STANDARD ' software...

Yeah... It's quite an innovative approach. Although having widespread usage in the industry doesn't hurt either.

>There is no such thing as Industry Standard...Good Recording Engineer can make the best of whatever tools he is given even if its a Portastudio!!...

Of course. And a good recording engineer should pay attention to the actual usability differences of new equipment and techniques to watch for more efficiency.

Misters, where are the true Amiga computers.
I think that the human king is going down to the hell of industrial democracy of capitalism, or the democracy of industrial democracy. It don't matter. All they want, profits. Destroy the culture and the labor. Monopolize criativity in function of profits. Why don't the big records companies incentive the development of free educational and REALY FUNCTIONAL music software.
God bless all of us !

: I should be the one to have the guts to tell all of you that Degidesign's sleek advertising and monopoly over the music software business is sickening. Degidesign started as a hardware company and very recently developed this "Control" software for their hardware called protools which evolved into you know the rest...Its really much ado about nothing.There are so many Far superior products on the market like EMU PARIS , RED , CREAMWARE PULSAR and SCOPE ,etc.The reason Protools is praised by many ,is because Protools system is mostly made of a very quality hardware and Protools is just a CONTROL software for that hardware and Nothing else and even that in mind the cost of that hardware is not justified it is super expensive because IT IS PURE HYPE !! Anyone who would spend 40.000 something Dollars on that system is wasting his money. Especially one that bothers me the most is PROCONTROL surface. This thing costs about $10.000 for 8-Fader pack and you have to have at least 4 of them for a decent setup and without the software this is a $40.000 Doorstop!.Itis basicly a fancy midi controller. How Stupid You have to be , to allow this company charge you that much money for a midi controller?.With $40.000 you can put together one hell of a professional studio , just buy something like Sony DMX-R100 Digital Mixer and couple of 24/96K Hard disk recorders High quality Preamps like Focusrite and You should still have money left for the top of the line Neumann Mics.. Please Do not buy the hype and Most importantly Protools Free is a very clever promotional TRAPP that Degidesign Put together to get more people be familiar with the user interface so that in future if they go into professional engineering , they would have the tendency to buy this so called "INDUSTRY STANDARD ' software...There is no such thing as Industry Standard...Good Recording Engineer can make the best of whatever tools he is given even if its a Portastudio!!...

dae error. dae was unable to complete this operation. your disk may be too slow or too fragmented. what do i do

: I installed Pro Tools free on my DV iMac 450 MHz with 384 M of RAM. This program kicks serious butt! I can't believe how powerful this bad boy is and is absolutely rock steady. For those of us who are 'basement' musicians, there isn't a better program available!