Pro Tools | Ultimate Perpetual License TRADE-UP from Pro Tools Studio Perpetual (Retail) is for owners of a Perpetual license of Pro Tools Standard 11 or later or of Pro Tools Studio (Retail) who want to move to a Perpetual license of Pro Tools | Ultimate (Retail).
Pro Tools | Ultimate at a Glance
- Simultaneous recording inputs: 256 (Core Audio, ASIO), 192 (HDX Hybrid Engine, HDX Classic), 64 (HD Native)
- 2048 audio tracks, 512 instrument tracks, 1024 MIDI tracks
- 1024 aux tracks/routing folders, 128 VCA tracks, 64 master tracks
- 64 video tracks
- Stereo, Surround, Dolby Atmos, and Ambisonics mixing
- Pro Tools | Carbon Hybrid Engine, Pro Tools | HDX and HD Native + interfaces, VENUE | S6L support
What's Included and How to Manage Your Perpetual License
- Perpetual access to the Pro Tools | Ultimate software.
- 1-year access to all available Pro Tools | Ultimate updates. Keep all installed updates after the 12-month period expires.
- 1-year access to ExpertPlus support with unlimited priority phone support and online technical support plus billing and account help—response within 4 hours.
- 1-year access to the Complete Production Bundle (over 115 plug-ins) and HEAT add-on. Once your 1-Year Updates and Support Plan lapses, you no longer have access to the Complete Production Bundle unless you renew or resubscribe. If you do not have a plan anymore, you get to perpetually keep 55 included virtual instruments, effects, and sound-processor plug-ins (HEAT is not included).
- 1-year access to Celemony Melodyne essential.
- 1-year access to SoundFlow Cloud Avid Edition.
- Access to 1GB of Cloud Collaboration storage, 2GB high-quality loop library, plus over 3GB of bonus samples and sounds for virtual instruments.
- Users who wish to retain access to software updates and ExpertPlus support after the initial 1-year period need to purchase a 1-Year Software Updates and Support Plan RENEWAL before their current updates and support plan expires. The active 1-Year Software Updates and Support Plan currently attached to your Perpetual license can be renewed at any time before it expires.
- If your 1-Year Software Updates and Support Plan has already expired, you need to purchase a 1-Year Software Updates and Support Plan NEW.
- Pro Tools runs on Intel-based Windows and Mac computers as well as on M1-based Mac computers.
- Choose to authorize the software either via cloud license with iLok Cloud (requires a constant Internet connection) or with a physical iLok 2 / iLok 3 key (available separately).