02/14/2006, 8:50pm, EST
Tuesday, February 14th
Pro Tools LE 7, M-Powered going Intel
Digidesign also said it is working closely with third-party manufacturers to help them port their plug-ins and applications to the Intel-based Mac platform.
"Creative musicians and audio post professionals who use our industry-standard Pro Tools application want to make use of all of the power they can get for audio processing from the host computer," says Digidesign General Manager Dave Lebolt. "Apple's new line of Intel-based Macs is bound to please our customers who want to run large numbers of audio tracks, use innovative signal processing plug-ins, and accomplish heavy-duty MIDI and automation tasks."
The new software versions will be separate releases and available as free downloads from the Digidesign website for all current, registered users of Pro Tools LE 7 software (version 7.0 or higher) and any version of Pro Tools M-Powered software. To use the Intel Mac–compatible software, owners of Pro Tools LE 6.9 or earlier software will need to purchase a software upgrade to Pro Tools LE 7.
Digidesign will continue to support Pro Tools LE and Pro Tools M-Powered software on the PowerPC platform as well; however, the company said it would not yet release an Intel-native version of Pro Tools HD: "Because neither the MacBook Pro nor the iMac offer the PCI, PCI-X, or PCI Express (PCIe) expansion slots required for Pro Tools|HD systems, Digidesign will not release a new version of Pro Tools HD software for these computers.
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