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Evaluating plug-in processors

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Evaluating plug-in processors

With literally thousands of plug-ins in the market costing well into thousands of dollars for some packages, it can be quite difficult to know which plug-ins to add to your system. Well the stock DigiRack and AIR plug -ins that ship with Pro Tools are a great starting point. You will eventually want to explore more options. Here are some things I like to consider when researching a new plug-in. First of all, I like to download the demo. Many people don't know that 95% of all plug-ins have free, albeit time-limited fully functional demos on their web site. So someone like Waves I could go to the Downloads section and I'm just looking for a demo link here. Now at that point I need to create Account Login and I could download that demo to my iLok. It's important to know that most demos these days are going to require an iLok, and that used to be a problem because Pro Tools used to be run without an iLok, but now most people running Pro Tools 9 and 10, you're already going to have an…

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