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Pro Tools moved editing from tape to screens

Digidesign's software let engineers cut and undo takes without losing them Digidesign released Sound Tools in 1989 and Pro Tools in 1991, running on Apple computers with plug-in processing. Editing that once meant slicing magnetic tape with a razor blade and taping it back together became a matter of dragging a boundary. By the 2000s most large studios ran it. 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?: Digidesign's software let engineers cut and undo takes without losing them. The figure is taken from Sound on Sound, 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.