Definition of Pro Tools

From the largest recording facilities to the smallest bedroom studios, Pro Tools® is the most popular sound creation and production system in the world. Featuring professional hardware and award-winning software that work together with your computer, Pro Tools lets you easily accomplish everything from composing music and recording to editing and mixing sound for broadcast and post production — all within a single environment.

"The Pro Tools Family." Digidesign. 12 January 2009 http://www.digidesign.com/index.cfm?navid=349&langid=100&itemid=35976

More Information on Pro Tools

Digidesign's Digital Audio Workstation platform is widely used by music professionals throughout the industry of recording and editing audio for film soundtracks, music production, and post-production. In a similar way to Final Cut Pro, it's important in Pro Tools to have the proper shared storage solutions on your network to prevent any latency while recording or playing back recorded audio. The best way to overcome issues like latency is to ensure proper levels of bandwidth, which can be better controlled with a shared storage solution. Additionally, the use of 10GbE cards and switches should also help the Pro Tools system perform efficiently and powerfully.

Pro Tools works as a multitrack tape recorder and mixer, only that it performs these duties much better in the digital medium. The system contains virtual instruments, with many more available as plug-ins, to recreate the instruments you require, as well as an intuitive design system that shows graphical representations of recorded or imported audio information. Pro Tools is used by music professionals and amateur mixers alike, and has many features and three different system variations to choose from.

Small Tree has shared storage solutions as well as high-speed 10GbE cards and switches to better share and transfer files to your network, in order to maintain available space on the individual workstations as well as to help prevent latency issues with recording and playback of audio data.

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