This ensures that any great ideas you might have while playing through aren’t lost by forgetting to put Pro Tools into Record mode. Possibly the most useful of the new MIDI features is the opportunity to record MIDI retrospectively. In this workshop we’re going to delve into the MIDI side of Pro Tools, looking at some of the more overlooked features and the handy and flexible new tools that were introduced in Pro Tools 2018. This view has probably been a little bit unfair Pro Tools has actually had some fairly robust MIDI editing capabilities since version 8, and Pro Tools 2018 once again sees Avid expand the DAW’s power.
While Pro Tools’ audio handling has made it the industry standard DAW for recording, its MIDI capabilities have long been seen as inferior to other DAWs, particularly Logic Pro, with many engineers and studios keeping a Logic install handy simply for MIDI-heavy sessions.