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Pro Tools on the whole responds really well to single touch control вЂ“ it all works, you can grab anything, including the tools and move every parameter and move clips about, edit notes, automation вЂ“ the whole lot. The Fast Track offers much better quality audio, reliability and has better inputs for recording things. Using a simple unpowered hub I can add the iLok and the Fast Track without any trouble at all. Of course we then run into our single USB port problem, but donвЂ™t worry, weвЂ™ll stick in a hub and see what happens. So itвЂ™s not exactly graceful but Pro Tools can work with the onboard sound but itвЂ™s just a bit of a fiddle.ДЄ better alternative would be to use a proper USB audio interface, like the Avid Fast Track Duo that IвЂ™m using here. If you then pull the cable out while Pro Tools is playing it will stop and throw up an error вЂ“ but it recovers if you put the cable back. There may be another way to do it in Pro tools, so perhaps you could have both outputs selected and then change them within Pro Tools but that somehow seems even more complicated. Whenever you change anything in the ASIO4All settings Pro Tools complains and has to restart, which is a little unfriendly. In the ASIO4All settings you can select both the speaker and headphone output or swap between the two. Pro Tools only sees what the ASIO4All wrapper has wrapped up and so has no knowledge of you plugging in the headphones.

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Windows appears to treat the speakers and headphone outputs as completely different entities, so in order to use the output socket we have to change the priority to the headphones. HereвЂ™s a bit of an oddity вЂ“ if you plug in headphones youвЂ™ll find that you still get output from the speakers, it doesnвЂ™t seem to automatically switch when you plug-in. Quality of playback through the on-board speakers? ItвЂ™s all right, itвЂ™s a bit like a laptop, sounds ok. ThereвЂ™s another setting in Display to reduce the text size of certain elements вЂ“ if you change the title bar text to any different point size and hit Apply it all comes back into line вЂ“ sadly this goes back to being messed up the next time you run Pro Tools so itвЂ™s probably best just to leave it. The top toolbar is a little messed up though вЂ“ the words seem to run into each other. ItвЂ™s getting too small now for effective use of the fingers, but maybe not for the pen вЂ“ maybe this is where the pen will come into its own, if you want to work at these sorts of resolutions. Moving the slider to the smallest and you can fit forty faders across вЂ“ thatвЂ™s pretty extraordinary. Checking the display settings we find that by default the Surface is on the third of four desktop scaling settings so in the Surface world this is actually pretty scaled pretty big.

At the default scaling you can get the whole project on screen along with 27 fully wide faders.

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A couple of clicks and itвЂ™s full screen again. Pro Tools appears to have got confused about the resolution and started up maximised but in a corner. When you open up the demo song the first thing you notice is how incredibly small everything is.

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Luckily thereвЂ™s an awesome application called ASIO4ALL which wraps up regular WDM drivers into a nice ASIO driver which Pro Tools understands ( enables us to use the SurfaceвЂ™s on-board audio, plug in some headphones and be completely mobile without having to plug-in a proper audio interface. Pro Tools canвЂ™t deal with regular Windows audio drivers вЂ“ it needs an ASIO driver or it wonвЂ™t get past the splash screen. HereвЂ™s the YouTube version, for the text please skip below.ДЇirst of all can we run it on just the Surface without having to plug anything else in? Well youвЂ™ll need an iLok which will take up the single USB port. LetвЂ™s see how it flies with the Surface Pro 3. Right then, Pro Tools вЂ“ this is one of the more fussy bits of music software.

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