It should work straight out of the box with Pro Tools, Sonar, Cubase and Reason.

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John Vanderslice is the founder and proprietor of San Francisco's Tiny Telephone, one of the last remaining analog-only recording studios in a world increasingly dominated by Pro Tools.

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Digital music distribution and software for home recording, like Garage Band and Pro Tools, opened the door for hundreds of thousands of artists to record and market their music through iTunes, Amazon and the many online music services that have sprung up in the last decade.

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Designed with input from some of the custom home installation industry's leading professionals, RedEye Pro offers extensive customization tools for installers.

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Apple certainly has a history of making consumer-focused tools for previously pro-only tasks.

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One way is through its professional package Xtion PRO, which gives developers the tools to create new gesture-tech apps.

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Apple has video editing and post production tools, including Final Cut Pro, Garage Band, Logic Studios, Motion, Soundtrack Pro and Color.

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He recommended tools such as Tweetwally and TweetWall Pro to manage the Twitter feed being projected during the event.

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The enhanced Quattro Pro 9 spreadsheet offers greater file size, easier manipulation of data, and more powerful tools to "turn numbers into knowledge, " Tomey said.

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Paint Shop Pro: The latest version of this popular program features several first-rate painting and drawing tools, and it supports more than 30 image formats, including Photoshop's .psd.

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