[Year 12 IPM] Audacity

[Robert Hind]

Pro Tools Free has the disadvantage that it will not run on Windows XP.

Robert Hind (Semi-retired)
Ex Traralgon and Ashwood


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Laurie Savage" <sav at pvgc.vic.edu.au>
To: "Year 12 Information Technology Processing and Management 
Teachers'Mailing List" <ipm at edulists.com.au>
Sent: Tuesday, February 21, 2006 9:46 PM
Subject: Re: [Year 12 IPM] Audacity


> Pro Tools Free is available from Digidesign. Its big brother Pro Tools is 
> the industry standard (it won an Oscar last year!) in the recording 
> industry and Music Departments  at Monash, VU etc. It's hit or miss 
> whether it will work with your Windows sound cards (Soundblaster OK, 
> essSolo no good) but runs well on Mac OS 9x! Needs at least 256MB RAM
>
> After ProTools, Audacity is definitely the best option. It is cross 
> platform and runs on Max OSX/9x, Linux and WinXX. The MacOS 9x version is 
> frozen at an earlier release and has some scrolling issues.
>
> I don't know any musos that use Audacity, they usually work with Adobe 
> Audition until they can afford Pro Tools!
>
> -- 
> Laurie Savage
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