


The entire audio interface line has been revamped (see my Avid Pro Tools HD Series review in PAR’s November 2010 issue) the new hardware sounds amazing. Avid, a leader in video and audio production, purchased Digidesign in 1995. Avid is the masthead for this major update since the Digidesign name is no more. Two years later, everything has changed as Pro Tools 9 (PT9) has redefined what it means to be the premier audio production platform. Critical listeners complained about the quality of the Digi interfaces that they felt couldn’t sonically compete with a big percentage of competitor offerings. At that point, users were locked in to using Digidesign’s hardware or the handful of reversed engineered interfaces (Prism Sound, Apogee, Lynx, etc.) that Digi refused to support. Pro Tools is a different beast than it was two years ago when I reviewed version 8.
