For the first time ever, Digidesign's Pro Tools recording software is available as a stand-alone product, which can be used in conjunction with any of five audio interfaces from M-Audio. From humble beginnings as Midiman, makers of handy gadgets such as format converters and MIDI interfaces, M-Audio's growth is the stuff of business legend.

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By the time the company was bought by Avid Technology last year, sales of M-Audio's core products — affordable soundcards, USB and Firewire interfaces, and controller keyboards — were bringing in tens of millions of dollars. The motives behind Avid's acquisition seemed pretty clear: Digidesign, also owned by Avid, had reached a dominant position in the pro and semi-pro markets, whilst M-Audio were one of the leading players in the home-studio computing arena, so the takeover gave Avid a substantial slice of the latter market to complement Digidesign's dominance at the higher end. There was, however, a certain amount of overlap between the new siblings' product ranges. In recent years, Digidesign had devoted increasing attention to their Pro Tools LE systems, which package a slightly cut-down version of their Pro Tools recording software with small audio interfaces such as the M Box and 002, and some of these have very similar counterparts in M-Audio's range. There was also something of a clash of corporate philosophy, in terms of the two companies' approaches to open standards.

M-Audio have always tried to support all of the common driver standards for both Mac OS and Windows, ensuring that their interfaces would work with as many different recording packages as possible. Digidesign, on the other hand, have never made a version of Pro Tools that would support other companies' hardware via protocols such as ASIO or WDM. Pro Tools has always used the proprietary Digidesign Audio Engine instead, and the same is true of Digidesign hardware. (In recent years, Digi have written ASIO drivers allowing their hardware interfaces to be used by third-party programs, but they rarely exploit all of the features of a particular interface.) The takeover thus led to plenty of speculation about how the two companies would work together.

Would Digidesign make an ASIO-compatible version of Pro Tools? Would M-Audio continue to bundle other companies' software with their interfaces? Would we see the end of open driver support for M-Audio hardware? Well, the first fruits of the marriage were announced at the Frankfurt Musikmesse, in the shape of a version of Pro Tools designed to run on M-Audio hardware.

Initially, five M-Audio interfaces are supported: the Audiophile 2496 and 192 PCI soundcards, the Ozonic combined controller keyboard and Firewire interface, and the multi-channel Firewire 410 and Firewire 1814 interfaces. With the Audiomedia III and Digi 001 interfaces both long discontinued, this means you can now run a 'lite' version of Pro Tools with a PCI interface for the first time in ages, but it's interesting that none of M-Audio's USB audio interfaces is supported. Perhaps Digi still have a warehouse full of M Boxes somewhere. Those who were hoping for an 'open' version of Pro Tools will also be disappointed. PT M-Powered uses the existing M-Audio device drivers, provided you have the latest version, but is unable to 'see' any audio devices other than the five listed above. Previous versions of Pro Tools have, in effect, used Digidesign's hardware as a dongle, with PACE's iLok system employed as an adjunct for authorising third-party plug-ins. Dope Vst Beat Machine.

In Pro Tools M-Powered, the iLok USB dongle is used for the program too. It's hard to love any dongle-based copy-protection scheme, but the iLok system is at least tried and tested, and it makes it possible to gather all your plug-in authorisations in one place; it also allows you to install a single copy of Pro Tools M-Powered on as many different machines as you like, as long as you only intend to use one at a time. However, the sheer physical size of the thing can be a nuisance — the two USB ports on my laptop are positioned in such a way that it's impossible to insert a USB pen drive at the same time as the iLok. The Mix window in Pro Tools provides a standard 'virtual mixer', although nearly all of the same functions can be accessed from the Edit window. As well as the dongle itself, which comes in a fetching shade of red, the box includes Windows and Mac installation CDs, a brief Getting Started manual and an even briefer Basics Guide. These are reproduced in PDF form on the discs, along with the full manual and various other bits of documentation.

I've always found Digidesign's product manuals, especially the Pro Tools Reference Guide, to be among the best around, but it would be handy to have this in paper form too. It would also be nice if the Reference Guide had been updated to cover Pro Tools M-Powered, which has been given the version number 6.8 — the Reference Guide is for 'version 6.7 for HD and LE systems', and doesn't include any info specific to the M-Powered version. The LE and TDM versions of Pro Tools have just been updated to 6.9, but the new features in that version don't appear in Pro Tools M-Powered.