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Plug-ins
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Amp
simulator / Distortion
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Audio
codec
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Bundle
misc
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Channel
strip
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Chorus
/ Flanger / Phaser
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Delay
/ Echo
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Dynamics
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EQ
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Filter
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Mastering
suite
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Modulator
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Panner,
Spatializ., Surround,
Doppler
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Pitcher
/ Harmonizer
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Restoration
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Reverb
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Special
/ Multi FX
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Utilities
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Vocoder
/ Voice processor
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Digidesign
and Digidesign Development Partners make
a wide range of plug-ins for Pro Tools HD
and LE systems.
Pro
Tools|HD currently supports all four
Digidesign Plug-In formats.
Digi 002, Digi 002 Rack and Mbox with Pro
Tools LE software supports RTAS and
AudioSuite plug-in formats on Windows XP
& Mac OS
TDM
Digidesign's Time Division Multiplexing (TDM)
technology is the foundation of the Pro
Tools professional mixing environment,
providing 24-bit mixing and real-time
digital signal processing (DSP)
capabilities. TDM plug-ins use the
dedicated hardware of TDM systems, which
offer easy expandability — you can
add TDM plug-ins up to the DSP capacity
of your system, no matter how many edits
or how much automation you have in a
session. If you need more DSP, simply add
another HD Accel card.
HTDM
Host Time Division Multiplexing (HTDM)
plug-ins represent a hybrid of TDM and
RTAS technologies. HTDM plug-ins provide
all the logistical functionality of
standard TDM plug-ins, but, like RTAS
plug-ins, they allow for all the
processing to be done on the host. In so
doing, HTDM plug-ins offer two primary
benefits: The resources of the Pro
Tools|HD Core and/or Process card remain
available for other tasks; and, despite
running on the host, HTDM plug-ins can be
instantiated on any track, a
characteristic previously confined to TDM
plug-ins only.
Real-Time AudioSuite (RTAS)
Real-Time AudioSuite plug-ins are host-based
processors, using the computer's
processing power to do their job.
Functionally, RTAS plug-ins offer many of
the real-time benefits of TDM plug-ins.
They are fully automatable, their
parameters can change in real time, and
their effects are not permanently written
to the audio file. Since they are host-based,
RTAS plug-ins require trade-offs between
track and plug-in count, edit density and
amount of mix automation in a session.
AudioSuite
AudioSuite plug-ins provide file-based
processing, meaning they process or alter
the sound file and create a new file with
the processed sound. The resulting effect
is applied to the entire file. AudioSuite
plug-ins are great for conserving DSP
power and certain types of processing
where there is no real-time benefit or
application, such as normalization and
noise reduction.
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