Chapter 3
Choosing and Setting Up Your Hardware
IN THIS CHAPTER
Exploring audio interface options
Checking out the Eleven Rack
Connecting your audio interface
With the release of Pro Tools 9 software in 2010, you no longer needed to have an Avid (actually, Digidesign because that was its name at the time) audio interface to use the program. This was a huge change for Pro Tools — and one that put it on par with all the other audio-recording programs out there. Avid also changed (pared down) its interface options, making it easier to choose one. By 2014, Avid shook up Pro Tools again by discontinuing all of its host-based audio interfaces used for Pro Tools and Pro Tools | First except the Eleven Rack guitar interface and processor. Many of Avid’s native interfaces (used for Pro Tools | Ultimate) are still available, though they’re changing, too. For the latest on what Avid offers, go to www.avid.com/pro-tools-ultimate/hardware.
Not only has Avid stopped selling its host-based audio interfaces (and many native ones as well), but it has been systematically ending support for these ...
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