Whenever a company like Digidesign introduces a new product or upgrades an existing one, the industry sits up and takes notice. Competitors scramble to play catch-up. People like you and me get in line to buy one. Case in point: Pro Tools Software. Pro Tools systems have been around for a few years, but most musicians, while they were lusting after one of their own, may have found them a bit out of their price range. So the company decided to do something about it by releasing Pro Tools as a stand-alone application that can turn any Power Macintosh into a super-powerful 16-track audio workstation with no additional hardware!

Maybe you'd better go back and reread that last line. Yup, that's correct: No additional hardware! Simply by using PowerMix, a Digidesign Audio Engine extension on your Power Mac, you have access to just about all the incredible features that have made Pro Tools an industry standard. Add an Audio-media card for higher quality A/D/A conversion and S/PDIF digital ins and outs plus additional DSP processing power and you have a truly affordable digital workstation that rivals most of the big (and expensive), stand-alone hardware-based systems.

Now you can do random access, non-destructive editing as well as mix digitally with graphic breakpoint volume and pan automation. MIDI recording is even supported. Sound good? Well, at just $795 retail, it probably sounds even better and by now you should be dashing for the phone to call your Sweetwater sales engineer for more information and your special pricing on Pro Tools software.

If you don't already have an Audiomedia card plugged into your Mac - or if you own a PC - Digidesign has also introduced the brand new Audiomedia III card which will run on both Macintosh and Windows operating systems. By adding this card to your computer, you open up a whole new world of super high-quality digital audio, as well as a host of impressive software DSP processors from Digidesign and its Development Partners (cool software like Waves and Antares Systems plug-ins which include compression, gating, expansion, a multitude of EQ functions - all totally within the digital domain!).

All by itself, Audiomedia III features up to 4 tracks of simultaneous recording and 8 tracks of playback at sample rates from 48 kHz all the way down to 11 kHz. You also get Digidesign's great new 18-bit A/D and D/A converters, two analog ins and outs, plus stereo S/PDIF digital ins and outs with super-clean 24-bit output!

The price? Just $1295 list, but if you call your Sweetwater sales engineer right now, you'll be pleasantly surprised at just how surprisingly affordable we can make owning an Audiomedia II or III card and some Pro Tools software!

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