At the recent AES show, Digidesign was handing out postcards that promoed their new free version of Pro Tools. It's an 8 audio/48 MIDI track version of Pro Tools 5.0.1 that will run on a Mac or PC without any additional hardware. This is a cool way to get your feet wet with hard drive recording without much investment, as long as you have a relatively new and sufficiently fast enough computer to run the software. It's available for download at digidesign.com. As of our press deadline, it's still not available, but they say it will be in a few days, so check it out.
Software | No. 26
Waveburner Pro Audio CD Mastering Software
by John Baccigaluppi
This is a beautifully useful and utilitarian piece of Macintosh software. It only does one thing, but it does it really well: assemble, sequence and tweak two track mixes into Red Book compliant CDR...