Going back too Mountain Lion from Yosemite on new Mac Book Pro

Okay so I just got my first Macbook Pro I am Very happy with it I don't have any real problems with Yosemite HOWEVER I bought my mac as I am a music student and I work with macs all the time running Pro Tools so it made sense to get a mac for compatibility reasons. now, I am not able to install Pro Tools Express the program I use at home online there are claims that it is the installer that is broken and won't work unless you are running 10.9 or lower but the program runs fine. I have bought Mountain Lion and I am awaiting it to be emailed to me, and I am away to create a partition on my 8gb usb stick to put the installer on, I understand that apparently I can't downgrade as I have a new Mac but I can run them together? Well one at a time obviously, I just would like some help as I am a little confused having only ever used Windows before.
Thank you for any help! I'm just getting pretty frustrated with this whole ordeal.

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