Pro Tools

Pro Tools is the absolute, undisputed, unshakeable industry standard for high-end professional recording studios and Hollywood film mixing stages. If a user walks into a multi-million dollar recording studio in Los Angeles or Abbey Road in London to record a live 40-piece orchestra, the computer in the control room is running Pro Tools. While tools like FL Studio are built for a teenager making beats in their bedroom, Pro Tools is built for the excruciatingly precise editing of live recorded audio. It is famous for its "Comping" workflow. A singer might record the chorus of a song 15 different times. An engineer can use Pro Tools to seamlessly cut the first word from Take 3, the middle sentence from Take 7, and the final high note from Take 12, stitching them together so flawlessly that the listener thinks it was a single perfect performance. It also dominates the audio post-production industry for film and television. It natively handles massive surround sound and Dolby Atmos mixing. An engineer mixing a Marvel movie might have 500 individual audio tracks (dialogue, footsteps, explosions) running simultaneously. Pro Tools is heavily integrated with Avid's massive, physical hardware mixing consoles specifically designed to handle this staggering computational load.