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Pro Tools Studio Black Friday pricing puts Avid's 1 year subscription to the DAW at $195, 51% off, with the deal ending Jan 1, 2027.
Pro Tools Studio is a DAW for creating, recording, editing and mixing audio. The maker says the Pro Tools session format works as the industry's common language, so a project can go to any producer or studio.
The subscription comes with a large library of plugins, instruments, loops and sounds. Avid also lists these with the subscription/license:
Audio records at up to 32-bit floating, 192 kHz. Punch and loop recording are seamless, with automated playlist tracking and a comping workflow for building a take from several passes.
On the MIDI side, you can capture performances and trigger samples and loops in the new Sketch window, and the iPad app does the same job. Loops auto-conform to your session tempo, and new MIDI effect plugin support is part of the package.
Retrospective MIDI Record brings in a performance you played without hitting record. Ableton Link connects your electronic instruments and music apps.
Any audio interface works for recording. Pair it with an Avid interface or system and your plugins run in the signal path while you track, with latency close to nothing.
Sketches let you start non-linearly with loops, MIDI and recordings, then move to the timeline to refine the arrangement.
Elastic Audio handles timing fixes, beat matching and note correction. With Melodyne inside the DAW via ARA 2, you can work on pitch and time in real time without roundtripping audio.
MIDI editing covers quantizing, note durations, transposing, velocity changes, Folder Tracks and MIDI Real-Time Properties. Pro Tools provides automation that Avid describes as the most precise and capable found in any digital audio workstation. You can automate track volume, panning, plugin settings and sends.
Pro Tools Studio and Ultimate include the capabilities for surround and immersive mixing, with the integrated Dolby Atmos Renderer. With the 2024.3 release, Pro Tools Studio can now do live custom re-renders across formats, from binaural all the way to 9.1.6 immersive.
For film, TV and games, the tools cover ADR, Foley, sound design and Dolby Atmos workflows. The maker lists up to 2,046 voices/audio tracks and 64 video tracks, with HD and 4K media placed directly to picture.
You can run tracks, plugins and sends by hand with Avid hardware, and the range covers everything from the Avid Control app, which costs nothing, up to the S6, a console built from swappable modules.
Yes. The Pro Tools Studio 1 Year Subscription from Avid is 51% off at $195 in the Black Friday deal, running until Jan 1, 2027. It covers a year of the DAW along with its updates and monthly content.
You get the DAW with a large collection of plugins, instruments, loops and sounds, over 120 plugins, quarterly feature updates, and new plugins and sound content monthly through Inner Circle rewards and Sonic Drop.
Yes. Avid lists surround and immersive mixing for Pro Tools Studio and Ultimate, with an integrated Dolby Atmos Renderer. Release 2024.3 adds custom live re-renders from binaural up to 9.1.6, plus monitoring through Apple Spatial Audio plugins.
Audio records at up to 32-bit floating and 192 kHz. You can use any audio interface, or an Avid interface or system to record through plugins with near-zero latency.
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