Pro Tools 10 HD from Avid is complete audio recording and music creation software. New additions include clip gain, the ability to use multiple audio formats in a session, an enhanced disk handler, and the Avid Channel Strip plug-in. The software refines the world's most popular music and audio production platform allowing the musician/engineer/producer to compose, record, sequence, edit, and mix the way they want.
Automatic Delay Compensation (ADC) has been expanded to allow for longer delay settings, fade-heavy sessions open faster and get better responsiveness with real-time fades, and mixes can be exported directly to SoundCloud to share and promote your music. Multi-track Beat Detective, a Timecode ruler, OMF/AAF/MXF interchange support, and DigiBase Pro file management all enhance workflow.
Five-hundred additional Pro Tools commands can be accessed when using EUCON controllers and extra long-format projects can now be created for sequential versioning with the extended 24-hour timeline. Working with AudioSuite processor is enhanced with reverse processing, handles, and more.
What's New
- Speed up editing and mixing with Clip Gain, and easily adjust and match gain levels, pre-mixer
- Mix multiple audio file formats and bit depths within the same session, including interleave, without file duplication
- Record and master higher resolution sound with more headroom in 32-bit floating-point format
- Create way bigger mixes, with up to 768 voiceable audio tracks and 512 auxiliary tracks
- Get highly responsive recording and playback performance with the extended disk cache, which loads entire sessions into RAM
- Get great responsiveness on slower hard drives with the enhanced disk handler
- 4 x more ADC (Automatic Delay Compensation) and 2 x more busses to handle bigger mixes with more plug-ins
- Sound of System 5 console EQ and dynamics with the Avid Channel Strip plug-in
- Access to over 500 additional Pro Tools commands when using EUCON controllers
- Work more easily with AudioSuite-rendered clips with reverse processing, handles, and more
- Create extra long-format projects for sequential versioning with the extended 24-hour timeline
- Open fade-heavy sessions faster and get better responsiveness with real-time fades
- Fold down 5.1 surround mixes to stereo with the Down Mixer plug-in
- Export mixes directly to SoundCloud to share and promote your music to the world
Record and Compose Music and Audio
- Whether tracking vocals, guitars, or an orchestra, record high-resolution audio - up to 24-bit/192 kHz - and experience exceptionally low latency to easily capture the best performances
- Flexibility to record, edit and mix music and sound for picture your way
- Create a seamless performance from multiple takes
- Let spontaneity shine with Loop recording and comp together the best takes
- Use QuickPunch to quickly replace any questionable section with a better performance
- Easily create parts for practically any musical instrument using the included virtual instruments, a MIDI keyboard/controller or mouse, and the built-in Pro Tools MIDI Editor
- Get started fast with the included audio loops
- Compose music using notation tools in the integrated Sibelius Score Editor
- Export sessions as Sibelius (.sib) files for further finessing in Sibelius
- Exchange sessions with any Pro Tools user or studio
- Work on projects right in Pro Tools created in other audio and video software, including Media
- Composer, Logic, Cubase, and other third-party applications
Edit
- Stretch creativity with elastic time and pitch
- Change the tempo or timing of any clip or an entire composition, on the fly
- Fix wrong notes, create harmonies, and transpose clips in real-time without altering the tempo
- Edit with precision
- Shape and fine-tune music and audio with professional, sample-accurate editing tools
- Speed up editing with the Smart Tool
- Add smooth transitions with crossfades
- Everything needed to perfect tracks is available from within a single Edit window
- Snoop out grooves with multi-track Beat Detective
- Quickly fix timing issues across multiple tracks or change up the feel of a beat to get a different groove
- Keep the rhythm section "in the pocket" by extracting the groove from a drumbeat and applying it to the bass part
- Create, edit, and mix audio to picture using the built-in Timecode Ruler and video track
- Use the included plug-ins to clean up sound
- Create sound effects
- Record and edit voiceovers, Foley, and ADR with perfect frame accuracy
- Share audio mixes with Media Composer editors through AAF
Mixing
- Polish mixes with over 70 included effects, sound-processing, and utility plug-ins
- Includes everything needed to create professional mixes, from high-quality reverbs, EQs, and compressors, to guitar amp emulators, surround sound fold-down, and channel strip dynamics
- Achieve phase-accurate mixes with Automatic Delay Compensation, now with 4 x the samples (16,383) to handle bigger mixes, no matter how many plug-ins are used
- Automate the settings of every element in the Pro Tools environment to add life to tracks and achieve the best mix possible
- Use a mouse to make changes one at a time, or mix faster and easier using a choice of Avid control surfaces and consoles and third-party boards
Virtual Instruments and Audio Content
- Big Fish Audio 8GB sound library
- Boom drum machine and sequencer
- DB-33 tonewheel organ emulator with rotating speaker simulation
- Mini Grand acoustic grand piano
- Structure Free sample player
- Vacuum monophonic vacuum tube synthesizer
- Xpand!2 multi-timbral synthesizer and sample workstation
Sound-Processing, Effects and Utility Plug-Ins
- 1-Band EQ III
- 4-Band EQ III
- 7-Band EQ III
- AIR Chorus
- AIR Distortion
- AIR Dynamic Delay
- AIR Enhancer
- AIR Ensemble
- AIR Filter Gate
- AIR Flanger
- AIR Frequency Shifter
- AIR FuzzWah
- AIR KillEQ
- AIR Lo-Fi
- AIR MultiChorus
- AIR Multi-Delay
- AIR Nonlinear Reverb
- AIR Phaser
- AIR Reverb
- AIR Spring Reverb
- AIR StereoWidth
- AIR Talkbox
- AIR Vintage Filter
- BF76 Compressor 1176 emulator
- BF Essential Clip Remover
- BF Essential Correlation Meter phase fixer
- BF Essential Meter Bridge VU metering
- BF Essential Noise Meter
- Chorus
- Click
- Compressor/Limiter
- D-Verb reverb and ambience
- DC Offset Removal
- De-Esser
- Delay
- DigiReWire
- Dither
- Down Mixer (5.1 to stereo fold down)
- Duplicate
- Eleven Free (guitar amplifier emulator based on Eleven)
- Expander/Gate
- Extra Long Delay II
- Flanger
- Gain
- Invert
- Lo-Fi retro processing
- Long Delay II
- Maxim sound maximizer
- Medium Delay II
- Mod Delay III
- Multi-Tap Delay
- Normalize
- Ping-Pong Delay
- Pitch
- Pitch Shift
- POWr Dither
- Recti-Fi harmonic synthesis
- Reverse
- SansAmp tube amp simulator
- Sci-Fi ring modulator
- Signal Generator
- Short Delay II
- Slap Delay II
- Time Compression Expansion
- Time Shift time/pitch stretching
- TL AutoPan panning effects
- TL InTune digital tuner
- TL MasterMeter oversampling meter
- TL Metro versatile metronome
- Trim
- Vari-Fi speed shifter