What's New in Pro Tools HD |12

Operation

• Standalone

Augmented Track Count

• Simultaneously play back up to 256 audio tracks, 512 instrument tracks, and 512 MIDI tracks

Soundbase

• 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

Loop Library

• 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

• 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

Enhanced Audio Layer Editing

• 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

Enhanced Playlists

• 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 / Commit / Bounce

• 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

Fades

• Quickly adjust a fade in, fade out, or crossfade shape directly in the Edit window using the Smart Tool

Batch Fades

• 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

Clip Transparency

• 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

Cloud Collaboration

• 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

Enhanced Mixing Experience

• 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

Recording Enhancement

• 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

Control with iPad

• 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

Compose and Record

Performance

• 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

Virtual Instruments

• 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

Music Writing and Notation

• 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

Sound for Picture

• 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

Edit Tracks

Elastic Audio

• 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

Editing Tools

• 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

• 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 and Share

Effects Plug-Ins

• Offers 75 effects, sound-processing, and utility plug-ins
• High-quality reverbs, delays, filters, EQs, and compressors
• Guitar amp emulators
• Surround-sound fold-down — mix in stereo or up to 7.1 surround sound
• Channel strip dynamics

Channel Strip Plug-In

• 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

Mix Automation

• Effortlessly automate the settings of nearly every element
• Automatic Delay Compensation delivers phase-accurate mixes with even the largest sessions

Offline Bounce

• 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 Mixes

• 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

Features

Supported Tracks

• 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

General

• 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