It's a bit daunting to use at first, but within minutes I had support via Bome's Youtube channel. I've only scratched the surface of the complexity of what's possible and I think this will serve me well into the future for building out/refining workflows.

Hands down the best DAW I've worked with for fine tuning and comping vocals.

Mixing a feature film right now and I wouldn't be able to do it without Pro Tools.

If you're mixing film audio I'd suggest not using any OS newer than Big Sur to insure that the Pro Tools Video Engine works properly.

If I were to go back and play it safe I would use Catalina and the previous version of Pro Tools to avoid and plugin or compatibility issues. Will save you a lot of headaches down the road.

MIDI Translator Pro is an extremely capable tool that enables you to get into MIDI at a whole other level. There is a bit of a learning curve, so don't expect to click on it, and it works. You need to read a bit and watch their very helpful videos,,,but after that you will be ready to conquer MIDI!

We use Darkroom Booth on our PCs. Wish we started with it! This wasn't our first software. But it will be the last. Once we realized what our strengths were (selling) and our weakness (graphics), we found Darkroom. We are graphic artist wannabes. We were so close to buying AND learning photoshop, but guess what? Darkroom Booth 2 is a drag and drop editor. We customize every layout and all of the screens the guests see and we still spend less time and effort than we did just designing the layouts with our original software. We have never used the same print layout or screens since we moved forward with Darkroom Booth. Clients LOVE personalization. Also, the way it organizes files, it is a cinch to transfer the graphics we create on our office computer to the booth computer/s. We used to sdesign directly on the booth computers, that was cumbersome and meant we had to be where the booth was. Now, we can do the backend work from anywhere! These folks are rolling out new features practically faster than we can learn them. Thankfully, the publisher has great communication with the users to spoon feed the latest and greatest to make sure we know how to use everything! Training/tech support is via LIVE human beings who speak English as a first language, you tube videos and a very active FB forum. Green screen is easy. I mean, really, really easy. Just playing with my laptop in my living room, the software keyed out my house plants. My other software involved tweaking during testing, then again at set up, then again as lighting would change during an event. Darkroom Booth 2 is a relief! Printer drivers are built into the software so you don't have to use the same port every time. Sure wish we would have started with Darkroom Booth 2, but I don't know if we would have known how truly powerful it is.

So, I've been using FastRawViewer for...about three weeks now. It actually lives up to the name, being fantastically, well, fast. But that's not the main point; the main point is that FastRawViewer let me better understand my camera, and helped me increase its dynamic range by over a stop, having lowered the amount of noise in the shots - it turns out that you tend to pick better RAW shots when you pick images based on the optimal exposure for RAW, and not for JPEGs (since, earlier, I was forced to work based on JPEG previews). I've tried many programs, both viewers and converters, but none of them gave me the ability to quickly and accurately pick shots with optimal exposure for RAW. Even if FastRawViewer didn't have any tools other than the RAW histogram and the RAW-based over- and underexposure statistics (which it does - FastRawViewer offers a lot of other unique tools for RAW culling and even for preliminary correction), I'd suggest that anyone who shoots in RAW use this program. There is one thing about this program that...saddens me, for lack of a better term. It's shown me that before I started using it, I'd thrown out many, many, many shots that I thought were overexposed, selecting them on the basis of the embedded JPEG. If I'd kept them instead, I would now be able to choose shots that were actually exposed much better, and accordingly had much less noise than those that I chosen to keep without using FastRawViewer.

This product is easy to use and setup. Customizing is very easy and works great. I can use my DSLR camera and able to add and use push buttons. I use a touch screen with this product and it is awesome. This product also can do video recording.

One of the best industry standard DAWs out there.

easy to download

I purchased my Mac Pro just so that I can start my own photobooth company. Just to find out that being a MAC user this isn't something that you would want to do with such an expensive device. I downloaded this software to test the device out but it wouldn't work. Thats when I noticed that you can only use this software with Windows.

The speed alone should be a good reason for a lot of people. Not a steep learning curve! Highly recommend it