What is Pro Tools? (Explanation for newcomers)

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What is Pro tools?
article dated 2001

Whichever way you look at it, Pro Tools has become part of the standard kit used in professional audio production. In an admittedly sad attempt to back up this statement I counted at least 23 references (not including adverts) to Digidesign's computer-based audio workstations in a recent issue of Sound On Sound. Regular SOS readers will have noticed that many of the producers and artists interviewed use Pro Tools, some for basic multitrack recording and/or editing, and others increasingly during the creative process itself. This, coupled with the fact that the Digi 001 has brought Pro Tools into many home and project studios, has prompted SOS to take an in-depth look at the system that has changed the way many sound professionals work.

article part 1
http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/feb01/articles/protools.asp

article part 2
http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/mar01/articles/protools.asp

article part 3
http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/apr01/articles/protools.asp