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Digital workstations replaced the tape room

Software let an engineer edit waveforms on screen instead of cutting tape Pro Tools arrived in 1991 and became the studio standard for recording and editing. The screen turned mistakes into selections that could be nudged a millisecond. Cheap laptop software pushed the same tools into bedrooms. It sits in Mondo's music collection, one of 200 facts that each trace back to the reference below.

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Where does this come from, and can I check it?: Software let an engineer edit waveforms on screen instead of cutting tape. The figure is taken from Britannica, which is linked in full on this page. Every fact on Mondo Knows names its source rather than repeating an unsourced claim.
Is this really a music fact?: Yes. It sits on the Music shelf, one of 2,600 sourced facts grouped into space, animals, the human body, history, science and more. Category pages collect every fact in the same field.
What else can I read about it?: The links under the fact point to a quiz, game, puzzle or calculator on the same subject, and the shelf below shows related facts. The wording here is original, and quoted phrases are marked as quotations.