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1
Q

What company (For nearly thirty years) was the original leader in digital audio production (for multiple media - music, broadcast, multimedia, and film industries)?

A

Digidesign

2
Q

When was this company acquired by Avid?

A

1995

3
Q

What was avid the leader before that merger?

A

Digital Nonlinear Media Creation

4
Q

What was the original name of pro tools?

A

Sound Tools

5
Q

When was if first released?

A

1989

6
Q

Peter Gotcher and Evan Brooks developed what company?

A

Digidrums

7
Q

What device did they sell drum chips for?

A

E-mu Emulator sampling keyboard

8
Q

Competition dried up profits after they had improved audio samples with early drum kits. So what did they turn their attention to?

A

Improved Hard Drive space and CPU technology to develop a new multitrack recording software for the newly released Macintosh II computer.

9
Q

Enlisting the help of early multitrack recording software developers from a company called OSC (developers of the multitrack recording software deck), they released Sound Tools in 1989, but multitrack recording until the release of WHAT in WHAT year?

A

Pro Tools - 1989

10
Q

What was oneof the first albums to be edited and mixed entirely on Pro Tools?

A

Summer In Paradise

11
Q

However it was not until decade after Sound Tools was released, that the first number one single to be edited and mixed completely by pro tools hit the charts? What banger was this?

A

Livin’ La Vida Loca By Ricky Martin

12
Q

What two thing matter most when it comes to using Pro Tools?

A

Efficiency and Speed