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1. RUNNING MICROSOFT PROJECT ON SURFACE PRO DRIVERS
2. RUNNING MICROSOFT PROJECT ON SURFACE PRO FULL
3. RUNNING MICROSOFT PROJECT ON SURFACE PRO PRO

Here’s a bit of an oddity – if you plug in headphones you’ll find that you still get output from the speakers, it doesn’t seem to automatically switch when you plug-in. Quality of playback through the on-board speakers? It’s all right, it’s a bit like a laptop, sounds ok.

RUNNING MICROSOFT PROJECT ON SURFACE PRO PRO

There’s another setting in Display to reduce the text size of certain elements – if you change the title bar text to any different point size and hit Apply it all comes back into line – sadly this goes back to being messed up the next time you run Pro Tools so it’s probably best just to leave it. The top toolbar is a little messed up though – the words seem to run into each other. It’s getting too small now for effective use of the fingers, but maybe not for the pen – 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 – that’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.

RUNNING MICROSOFT PROJECT ON SURFACE PRO FULL

A couple of clicks and it’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.

RUNNING MICROSOFT PROJECT ON SURFACE PRO DRIVERS

Luckily there’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 Surface’s on-board audio, plug in some headphones and be completely mobile without having to plug-in a proper audio interface.

Pro Tools can’t deal with regular Windows audio drivers – it needs an ASIO driver or it won’t get past the splash screen. Here’s the YouTube version, for the text please skip below.įirst of all can we run it on just the Surface without having to plug anything else in? Well you’ll need an iLok which will take up the single USB port. Let’s see how it flies with the Surface Pro 3. Right then, Pro Tools – this is one of the more fussy bits of music software.