DISC Avid Pro Tools HD Annual Subscription, Includes iLok

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Newest Additions

The Avid Pro Tools HD Software with iLok is renowned as the industry-standard digital audio workstation, infamous for its exceptional processing power, as well as its professional tools and user interface. Pro Tools HD includes a wide range of new features designed to expand your creative capabilities and improve your workflow. One of the most impressive new additions to the software is the ability to collaborate with other musicians by storing tracks and projects in the cloud. Avid Cloud Collaborations for Pro Tools allows you to record, edit and mix session with others as if you were all working together in the same studio. You can also share and find new artist online through the Avid Artist Community.

One of the most unique and useful tools is the brand new ‘Track Freeze’ feature which allows you to free up processing power by ‘freezing’ virtual instrument plug-ins. ‘Track Commit’ is a similar tools except that it renders the track permanently, whereas the ‘Track Bounce’ function allows you to render out stems with ease. You can also use the ‘Pro Tools | Control iOS app’ to take wireless control of Pro tools as well as other EUCON-enabled audio and visual software, allowing you to change parameters and use tools directly from your iOS device.

Create With Power

Avid Pro Tools HD deliver pristine audio fidelity, ranging up to 32-bit/192kHz for the best possible audio performance on the market. You can achieve near-zero latency with Pro Tools | HDX and HD Native for more concise recordings. Utilising the ‘QuickPunch’ function allows you to replace sections without destroying the overall flow of the recording, allowing you to create flawless performances with ease. Avid Pro Tools HD also gives you access to a wide variety of quality virtual instruments, including everything from drum machines and sample to bass guitars and classical pianos. The intuitive user interface gives you access to a wide range of features and functions, allowing you to do everything from tweaking individual notes in a MIDI track to working on audio/visual projects, utilising the built-in Timecode Ruler for precision editing.

Powerful Editing Tools

With its highly flexible audio features, you can use Avid Pro Tools HD to edit audio as easily as you would with MIDI, allowing you to explore different creative avenues and improving your workflow along the way. This gives you the ability to do everything from change the tempo or timing of an audio clip to making ‘harsh’ notes sound pitch perfect using the ‘Elastic Pitch’ tool. The precision editing tools allow you to fine-tune your audio and visual performances, allowing you to speed up the editing and mixing process using the ‘Smart Tool’. You can also use the ‘VCA Masters’ to controls groups of tracks quickly and easily. A range of other features can be used to speed up your recording and editing processes such as the ‘DestructivePunch’ tool which helps to save disk space while recording – ideal for bigger projects. The ‘Beat Detective’ tool is ideal for keeping drummers in time, by allowing you to fix timing issues or even change up to the feel of the rhythm altogether.

Advanced Mixing Capabilities

Avid Pro Tools HD gives you everything you need to compose, edit, mix and master audio to industry-standard requirements. One of the most useful tools is the ability to mix in either stereo or surround sound, ideal for professional audio and audio/visual projects. Whether you need mono, stereo, 7.1 surround sound of the full Dolby Atmos configuration, you can now place the sound where you need it by using the built-in surround panner. You can also use automation directly from the panner window for improved accuracy.

There is also a huge selection of effects and sound-processing plug-ins that helps to shape and mould your sounds. This means you can do everything from add subtle Reverbs to vocal performances to add restrictive EQ strips to problematic audio. Pro Tools HD also features advanced mixing automation, improving your overall workflow allowing you to complete projects faster and easier. One of the most impressive improvements is the ability the export mixes in ‘faster-than-real-time’ using ‘Offline Bounce’. This allows you to deliver final mixes or stems up to 150x faster, utilising time-stamped automation and other important tools to save your hours of exporting time.

Complete With Plug-Ins And iLok

Avid Pro Tools HD comes complete with a variety of powerful plug-ins such as the Pro Compressor and Space. For example the Pro Compressor allows you to shape sounds and enhance your tracks by using the four advanced compressor detectors. This professional-grade compression unit gives you everything you need to achieve the sound you are looking for, even allowing you to easily sidechain your compression, ideal for mixing vocals and other sources that may need to cut through a dense mix. One of the most versatile plug-ins in the Air Xpand!2 which is a virtual instrument plug-in that features a wide range of high-quality sounds including drums, strings, pianos and more. You can even create your sound using this plugin as well as play samples and loops. Avid Pro Tools HD features iLok, which is a special USB devices that holds your unique licence for your iLok-protected software, this provides secure protection for your software, meaning only you can access your copy of Pro Tools HD.

Features

• Ultra-flexible recording, editing, and mixing environment
• Create with an amazing collection of powerful 64-bit AAX plug-ins
• Collaborate with arists across the world using Avid Cloud Collaborations for Pro Tools
• Quickly free up processing power on demand and share tracks with speed and ease using Track Freeze, Commit and Bounce
• For the first time ever, you now have more ways to get and use Pro Tools | HD. Pro Tools | HD software is available standalone to purchase and own or subscribe to annually
• Over 60 professional-quality virtual instruments, effects, and sound processing plug-ins
• Industry-standard DAW, perfect for high-profile music, movie and television projects
• Pro Tools | Control iOS app allows you to take control Pro Tools using your iOS device
• Pristine audio quality - up to 32-bit/192 kHz
• Record and edit with advanced tools to improve your workflow and creativity
• Utilize up to 256 tracks at 44.1/48kHz and up to 192 channels of simultaneous I/O
• Automatic delay compensation provides tight mixing with minimal phase issues
• Multitrack Beat Detective and Elastic Audio let you correct timing across all of your tracks
• Score Editor and MIDI Editor provide comprehensive composing capabilities
• Mix various audio file types and formats in a single session without format conversion
• Create flawless performances using simple track compositing functions
• Clip Gain provides dynamic volume flexibility and increases integration with Media Composer
• Mute and Solo visual indicators and Bus Interrogation provide a clear view of signal flow
• Full support for Artist Series and other EUCON-equipped control surfaces
• Low-latency monitoring with Core Audio and ASIO hardware delivers smoother tracking
• Read/record from flash drives, RAID systems, network-attached drives, and server storage
• Functions such as Export Selected Tracks as New Session make collaboration easy
• OMF/AAF/MXF interchange support plus included
• iLok licence ensures optimal security
• Play and edit up to 64 tracks of HD Video and Avid DNxHD sequences