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Troubleshooting with TDM systems on Mac OS — Including Pro Tools|HD systems & discontinued Pro Tools|24 MIX systems.
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Troubleshooting with TDM systems on Windows — Including Pro Tools|HD systems & discontinued Pro Tools|24 MIX systems.
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Tips & Techniques using Pro Tools TDM systems

For Mac & Windows Post & Surround Users. Tips, Techniques, and Troubleshooting with Pro Tools TDM 5.1 and higher Surround, Pro Tools TDM Systems for Post-Production, Satellite options, DigiTranslator, OMF, AAF, MXF; as well as Pro Tools LE Systems with Complete Production Toolkit (for surround & video) and DV Toolkit 2 (for video)

Live sound tips, techniques, and troubleshooting for all VENUE systems, including VENUE D-Show, VENUE Profile, VENUE Mix Rack and VENUE SC48.
VENUE Product Family
VENUE Videos
Live Sound Webinars
VENUE Blog

Troubleshooting with Pro Tools LE for 003 Family, Digi 002 Family, Mbox Family, Digi 001, and AudioMedia III systems running on Mac OS.
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Troubleshooting with Pro Tools LE for 003 Family, Digi 002 Family, Mbox Family, Digi 001, and AudioMedia III systems running on Windows.
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User forum for M-Audio hardware systems with Pro Tools M-Powered & Pro Tools Academic software for Mac OS X.
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User forum for M-Audio hardware systems with Pro Tools M-Powered & Pro Tools Academic software for Windows.
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Mac OS X user forum for Pro Tools M-Powered Essential software — bundled with Pro Tools KeyStudio, Pro Tools Recording Studio, and Pro Tools Vocal Studio home recording products.
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Windows user forum for Pro Tools M-Powered Essential software — bundled with Pro Tools KeyStudio, Pro Tools Recording Studio, and Pro Tools Vocal Studio home recording products.
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User shared tips & techniques for using Pro Tools LE, Pro Tools M-Powered, Pro Tools M-Powered Essential, 003 Family, Digi 002 Family, Mbox Family, Digi 001, and AudioMedia III systems on Windows or Mac OS. No "Mac vs. PC" platform wars allowed on the DUC.

Tips, Techniques, and Troubleshooting with ICON D-Control and D-Command digital consoles for Pro Tools|HD.
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ICON Videos

Tips, Techniques, and Troubleshooting with the C|24 24-Channel Control Surface with Integrated Analog I/O for Pro Tools|HD and LE systems, and its predecessor — Control|24. Both control surfaces are compatible with Pro Tools HD and LE Systems on Mac and Windows.
C|24 Product Information

Tips, Techniques, and Troubleshooting with MC Control, MC Mix, MC transport, and MC Color.
Euphonix Artist Series Product Information
EuTV Artist Videos

Tips, Techniques, and Troubleshooting with MC Pro, System 5-MC, S5 Fusion, System 5, System 5-B, System 5-BP, and Max Air.
Euphonix Pro Series Product Information
EuTV Pro Videos

Tips, Techniques, and Troubleshooting with the Command|8 8-Fader Control Surface for Pro Tools|HD, LE, and M-Powered systems.
Command|8 Product Information

Tips, Techniques, and Troubleshooting with Digidesign ProControl & Edit Pack on Pro Tools TDM systems.

A forum for users of virtual instruments with Pro Tools systems, including Hybrid, Strike, Structure, Velvet, Transfuser, and Xpand! software from the Advanced Instrument Research group — dedicated to creating powerful virtual instruments purpose built for the Pro Tools environment.
Virtual Instruments for Pro Tools
Virtual Instrument Videos
AIR Users Blog

A forum for discussion of guitar recording techniques, including the new Eleven Rack guitar recording and effects processing system, and the Eleven guitar amp emulation plug-in.
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Eleven Rack Blog

A forum for discussion of drums, including recording techniques, other percussion instruments, and virtual instrument drums such as Strike.

A forum to discuss MIDI issues in general that are not necessarily specific to other forums on the DUC, and hardware keyboards and synths.

For issues regarding Mac and Windows hard disks, SCSI, disk utilities, etc.

Older discontinued products such as MasterlList CD, SampleCell, Session 8 Windows, Session, Project II, Pro Tools Project, and Sound Designer.

Tips, Techniques, and Troubleshooting with the Aspera DigiDelivery™ file exchange system.
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General Audio discussions about Digidesign Products. No commercial posts, no flamewars, no trolling.

No commercial posts or advertising! Commercial posts and advertising of goods or services other than the sale of pre-owned products by individuals are not allowed per the DUC Terms of Use, and will be removed.

The purpose of the Employment forum is to provide a place for Pro Tools operators looking for positions, and facilities offerring positions. It is not intended to provide advertising for any commercial product or service. Commercial posts and advertising are not allowed per the DUC Terms of Use, and will be removed. Please limit your posts to positions primarily involved with Digidesign Products or Digi-related products.

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This forum is for discussion of the Pro Tools 8.0.3 Windows 7 Public Beta with other users, and to post bug reports about Pro Tools 8.0.3 on Windows 7. Pro Tools 8.0.3 — Download & Details

Read Only Archive — This forum was for discussion of the Pro Tools 8.0.3pr Snow Leopard Prerelease. With the official release of Pro Tools 8.0.3 for Snow Leopard, the prerelease version is no longer available. Pro Tools 8.0.3 — Download & Details

Read Only Archive — Pro Tools Free on Macintosh systems with Mac OS 9 & 8.6. Pro Tools Free will NOT work on Mac OS X or in Classic mode on OS X.

Read Only Archive — Pro Tools Free on Windows 98SE and Windows Me systems. Pro Tools Free will NOT work on any other Windows operating system, such as Windows 2000, NT or XP.

Communities section of Avid.com with links to other Avid forums:

• Avid Video Community
• M-Audio User Forums
• Pinnacle Forums
• Sibelius Forums
• Torq DJ Forums

Link to the Pro Tools News section of Avid.com

Link to the Special Offers section of Avid.com; with news about hardware exchange upgrades and other promotions and ongoing programs.

Link to tips and tutorials for Audio Recording, Mixing, and Post Production; hosted by Brent Heber