The industry-leading Pro Tools | HD 12 from Avid Technologies is designed for audio and post pros who need maximum track counts, high-level performance, and surround sound. It provides powerful and efficient tools to create music or sound for film/TV, and connect with a premier network of artists, producers, and mixers around the world via Avid Cloud. This full, boxed version of the software offers standalone functionality. It comes bundled with an iLok for software authorization and an Upgrade and Support Plan, which provides access to the latest Pro Tools releases, including updates and upgrades, 25 bonus plug-ins, and priority support.
Pro Tools | HD 12 delivers pristine 32-bit/192 kHz sound with exceptionally low latency. Its 64-bit architecture lets you create massive mixes with up to 256 audio, 512 instrument, and 512 MIDI tracks. Creativity tools abound, including 60 virtual instruments, effects, and sound processing plug-ins, plus 25 bonus plug-ins. The software lets you quickly sketch new ideas. It comes with a 2GB loop library for loop-based music creation and Revision History, a feature that allows you to try out new ideas for a song and easily revert to a previous version without losing anything.
The mixing experience is enhanced with the addition of VCA Masters, which let you mix and control groups of tracks faster and easier, gain-reduction metering on every channel to gauge dynamics, and advanced automation tools that effortlessly automate the settings of nearly every element. The extended Disk Cache feature loads entire sessions into RAM, giving you a smoother and highly-responsive performance when recording and editing. Pro Tools | HD 12 is optimized to work with audio for video, allowing you to play and edit HD video and Avid DNxHD sequences, right in the timeline and with perfect frame accuracy.
Additionally, the software provides you with opportunities to expand your creative possibilities and work opportunities using Avid Cloud Collaboration. This feature enables you to find musicians for your project, easily share tracks and work on projects with your band mates, showcase your work, and gain exposure to promote your talent, while forging meaningful connections with the audio community.
- Standalone
- Simultaneously play back up to 256 audio tracks, 512 instrument tracks, and 512 MIDI tracks
- Soundbase lets you effortlessly browse, search, audition, explore, and experiment with loops, samples, and sound effects from nearly any sound library
- Customizable tag filtering for searching your libraries by instrument, genre, tempo, key, time signature or your own tags
- Hear how content sounds in sync with your tracks
- Software comes with a 2GB high-quality loop library from Loopmasters, created by the industry’s leading producers and sound designers
- Includes rhythm sections, cool riffs, instrumental accompaniment
- Find and audition loops with Soundbase
- Project Revisions allows you to explore new versions of a song or soundtrack, make notes, share ideas with others, and if you change your mind, easily go back to a previous version of your project, without losing anything
- Software keeps all version history, audio files, notes, and other data organized for you
- Clear only overlaps
- Heal clips when removing one that overlaps two
- Trim the starts and ends of two overlapping clips
- Modify behaviors
- Supports new Clip FX playback
- Edit playlists more easily
- Quickly switch between playlists with new key commands
- Know if you have multiple playlists on a given track with new visual indicators
- Automatically send overlapped clips to new or existing playlists
- Track Freeze lets you quickly freeze or unfreeze all plug-ins on a track to free up processing power
- Track Commit is similar except it renders the track (or an edit selection) permanently
- Track Bounce allows you to render out stems for fast and easy file delivery
- Quickly adjust a fade in, fade out, or crossfade shape directly in the Edit window using the Smart Tool
- New fade enhancements let you speed through repetitious tasks when editing thousands of audio clips
- Create and tweak presets for fade ins, fade outs, crossfades, and batch fades
- Recall presets directly from your keyboard or control surface
- Control fade settings independently when working with batch fades
- Clips take on a translucent appearance whenever you move and overlap one over another, giving you better visual clarity of their context
- Enables you to quickly align the waveforms of a new audio clip to the visual cues of an existing one’s waveforms, with much better precision and ease
- Avid Cloud Collaboration for Pro Tools allows you to work on a session with friends, colleagues, or your favorite artist or producer with ease — regardless of where they are in the world
- Record, edit, and mix projects with others as if you’re all working together in the same studio
- Work on projects created in other audio and video software (including Media Composer, Logic, Cubase), right in Pro Tools
- Find new collaborators through the online Avid Artist Community
- Mix and control groups of tracks faster and easier with VCA Masters
- 17 advanced metering options, including K-system, VU, and other professional standards
- Gain-reduction metering on every channel to gauge dynamics
- Smoother performance and highly responsive recording and playback with the extended Disk Cache feature, which loads entire sessions into RAM, no matter how large
- Rehearse and record more easily with track input monitoring
- Quickly dial in cue mixes by copying fader settings to sends
- Solo tracks in PFL (pre-fader listen) or AFL (after-fader listen) mode for optimal recording
- Free Pro Tools | Control iOS app gives you wireless touch control of Pro Tools and other EUCON-enabled audio and video software
- Ride multiple faders with your fingertips
- Trigger complex macros with a tap
- Navigate through large mixes with ease
- Record pristine sound at up to 32-bit/192 kHz with a supported audio interface (available separately)
- 64-bit performance and dynamic host processing
- Low latency
- Replace unwanted sections non-destructively with QuickPunch recording, and comp together the best performances
- Lay down beats with the drum machine, samples, and loops
- Add bass, guitar, horns, strings, piano, and other accompaniments
- Instruments include: AIR Boom drum machine/sequencer, AIR DB-33 B-3 tonewheel organ with rotating speaker emulation, AIR Mini Grand acoustic grand pianos, AIR Structure Free sample player, and more
- Take your songwriting from sketchpad to final production with speed and ease
- Create and finesse every virtual instrument or MIDI performance by tweaking individual notes, adjusting dynamics, timing, and more
- Write music using standard notation tools in the built-in Score Editor
- Export sessions to Sibelius for further finessing
- Work with audio for movies, television, and other visual media
- Play HD video and Avid DNxHD sequences right in the timeline — without transcoding
- Edit with precision using the built-in Timecode Ruler
- Clean up sound using the included plug-ins
- Create sound effects
- Work easily with AudioSuite-rendered clips
- Record and edit voiceovers, Foley, and ADR with perfect frame accuracy
- Share audio mixes with Media Composer editors through AAF
- Change the tempo or timing of a clip or entire composition on the fly with Elastic Time
- Make out-of-tune notes sound pitch perfect with Elastic Pitch
- Create harmonies and transpose clips in real time, without altering the tempo
- Shape and fine-tune your music and audio with professional, sample-accurate editing tools
- Speed up editing and mixing tasks with the Smart Tool
- Even out volume levels with Clip Gain
- Smooth transitions with crossfades
- All parameters are available right from within a single Edit window.
- Beat Detective tool lets you quickly fix timing issues across multiple tracks
- Change up the feel of a beat altogether to get a different groove
- Keep your rhythm section “in the pocket” by extracting the groove from a drumbeat and applying it to the bass part
- Mix in stereo or up to 7.1 surround sound
- Place and move sounds exactly where you want them with the built-in surround panner
- Write automation right from the panner window for speedy accuracy
- Offers 75 effects, sound-processing, and utility plug-ins
- High-quality reverbs, delays, filters, EQs, and compressors
- Guitar amp emulators
- Surround-sound fold-down
- Channel strip dynamics
- Includes Channel Strip plug-in, an exact replication of the renowned EQ and compression algorithms of the Avid System 5
- Adds warmth, energy, and clarity to your mixes
- Effortlessly automate the settings of nearly every element
- Automatic Delay Compensation delivers phase-accurate mixes with even the largest sessions
- Faster-than-real-time offline bounce delivers final mixes or stems, up to 150x faster
- High-quality results with time-stamped automation
- Saves hours when mixing radio programs or other long-format shows
- Share files with direct SoundCloud support
- Bounce mixes to your iTunes library and share your music with anyone on your network
- Promote your music and skills to an extensive network of media professionals and find collaborators in the online Avid Artist Community
- Maximum Simultaneous Audio Tracks at 48/96/192 kHz: 256/128/64
- Maximum Inputs (Hardware Dependent): Up to 64 channels of I/O with HD Native hardware through DigiLink, and up to 32 channels of I/O through Core Audio and ASIO
- Audio Recording (Maximum Simultaneous Tracks): 256
- Instrument: 512
- MIDI: 512
- Auxiliary: 512
- Busses: Unlimited
- Video: 64
- Maximum Supported Projects/Sessions: Unlimited sessions stored on local or networked drives
- Maximum Sample Rate Supported (Hardware Dependent): 32-bit/192 kHz
- Maximum I/O (Hardware Dependent): 256
- ASIO, Core Audio, EUCON Support (For Third-Party Interface and Control Surface Integration): Yes
- Supported Plug-In Formats (Virtual Instruments, Effects, Sound Processors): AAX Native, AAX AudioSuite