Recording

• Powerful loop recording options
• Elastic Pitch allows manipulation (+/- 4 octaves) or pitch correction of any audio region in real time without affecting time or tempo
• Elastic Time real-time tempo manipulation feature lets you change the tempo or timing of audio tracks on the fly without affecting pitch
• Loop playback automatically updates to the selection without manually stopping and starting the transport
• Loop Trim tool allows you to easily turn audio or MIDI regions into loops
• Dynamic Transport mode allows playback to operate independently of the current selection
• Real-time MIDI processing enables control of MIDI quantization, note duration and velocity, transposition, and timing as you record
• QuickPunch functionality

Advanced MIDI

• 256 tracks of powerful, intuitive MIDI sequencing
• MIDI Editor windows can display MIDI and automation data for Instrument, MIDI, and Auxiliary Input tracks
• Instrument Tracks combine MIDI and audio capabilities in a single channel strip, simplifying routing for virtual instruments and MIDI sound modules
• Sample-based MIDI tracks lock MIDI events to time code regardless of session tempo changes
• Zoom Toggle switches quickly between two different user-defined settings in the Edit window
• Mirrored MIDI editing mode allows adjustments made to one MIDI file to affect all existing copies of that region
• Additional MIDI features including:
  • Enhanced Select/Split Notes window enables splitting a MIDI performance into multiple tracks by MIDI note, velocity, duration, or position
  • Remove Duplicate Notes command allows users to quickly clean up recorded or merged MIDI tracks
  • Change Duration window offers legato, overlap correction, and transform sustain pedal features
  • Transpose window transposes all selected notes in octaves and semitones
  • Separate, consolidate, and mute MIDI notes
  • Scrub and shuttle through parts
  • View superimposed MIDI and Instrument tracks for easier arrangement editing
  • Color code MIDI notes by track, type, or velocity
  • Audition velocity changes
  • Play MIDI notes when tabbing
  • Edit MIDI automation and continuous controller (CC) data through multiple Automation and Controller lanes
  • Real-time scrolling during playback

Editing

• Completely non-destructive editing with world-class tools
• Add new tracks; reorder tracks; create, move, or copy inserts and sends; and adjust I/O routing on the fly without manually stopping and starting the transport
• Track compositing features allow for quickly and easily piecing together the best possible version of a performance from multiple recording passes
• Lock regions to the timeline to prevent them from being inadvertently moved or edited
• Use the Automation and Controller lanes to view and edit track automation and MIDI CC data without changing track views
• Time Shift DigiRack plug-in delivers superior time compression/expansion
• Region Groups allow grouping of any combination of audio and MIDI regions, across any number of tracks
• Region Looping offers an easy way to repeat one or more regions and Region Groups
• Separate on Grid and Separate at Transient functions allow editing of multitrack audio regions simultaneously, based on a grid value or transients in an audio file
• Quantize audio regions according to a grid or groove template
• "Reverse" Strip Silence functionality allows for extracting louder portions of audio tracks

Mixing

• New Automatic Delay Compensation functionality makes it easy to get great-sounding, phase-accurate mixes
• Host processing efficiency allows you to run many select RTAS effects and instrument plug-ins simultaneously
• Up to 32 internal mix busses and up to 10 sends and inserts per track increases mixing flexibility and allows larger, more complex mixing architectures
• Copy or move send assignments across tracks via drag-and-drop functionality
• Free Dynamics III DigiRack plug-in allows easy and powerful control of mix dynamics
• EQ III includes a filter band-pass solo mode, making it easy to isolate and remove unwanted signals or noise in an audio track
• Advanced automation features and editing including real-time display
• Automate All command allows arming automation of all plug-in parameters at once

Effects and Virtual Instruments

• Wide range of compatible creative software options available from Avid and Avid Development Partners including:
  • Both real-time RTAS effects plug-in processing and file-based AudioSuite effects plug-in processing
  • Advanced virtual instrument integration including 6 free Avid virtual instruments:
    • Boom drum machine and sequencer
    • DB-33 tonewheel organ emulator with rotating speaker simulation
    • Mini Grand acoustic grand piano
    • Vacuum monophonic vacuum tube synthesizer
    • Xpand!² multitimbral synth and sample workstation with over 1000 presets
    • Structure Free sample player with over 600 MB of high-quality samples
  • FXpansion BFD Lite acoustic drum module
• Ships with 70 pro effects and utility plug-ins, including EQ, dynamics, delays, reverb, and more (See complete list)
• Incredible guitar amp tone with Eleven Free and SansAmp plug-ins
• 8 GB of pro-quality loops
• Map plug-in parameter controls to almost any encoder on a controller, and access each track’s 10 inserts
• Easily communicates via ReWire with applications like Torq for further creative possibilities

Score Editor

• Based on the Sibelius notation engine
• View, edit, arrange, and print MIDI data as music notation
• Compose music using the notation tools, or transcribe recorded, imported, drawn (with the Pencil tool), or step-entered MIDI data into notation
• Write parts on a single staff—treble, bass, alto, or tenor clef—or grand staff
• Place and edit notes, and edit the meter and key signature at whim
• Add chord symbols such as Dm7 and guitar chord diagrams to sessions
• Transcribe MIDI parts in real time
• Print out a score in its entirety or print only certain instrumental parts
• Export sessions as Sibelius (.sib) files for further finessing in Sibelius

Efficiency and Ease of Use

• Elegant user interface minimizes eye strain
• Customizable toolbar shows only desired tools in any arrangement
• Tiled or cascaded window arrangement
• Logical, streamlined menu navigation
• Change the color of channel strips, tracks, regions, groups, and markers to any hue
• Navigate through sessions quickly using the Universe view
• QuickStart dialog allows for quickly, easily creating new sessions from templates, from scratch, or open existing sessions
• Right-click contextual menus offer fast access to common parameters
• Tool Tips provide "rollover" descriptions of interface objects
• Easy dragging and dropping of audio, MIDI, REX, and ACID files from the desktop to the timeline
• Drag multiple regions onto a single track simultaneously
• Quickly apply track-level commands globally across multiple tracks simultaneously
• Up to 99 Window Configurations (screen sets) to instantly recall custom view arrangements
• Customizable Zoom Toggle lets you define track view and height when zooming continuously
• Variable track height allows tracks to be instantly resized to any height
• Fast Region List searches including history
• Duplicate Tracks dialog streamlines defining how many tracks, and which track parameters, to duplicate
• Built-in DigiBase file management tool organizes and auditions audio and MIDI files and loops according to attributes such as tempo; includes importing of Red Book audio CDs
• Up to 999 Markers/Memory Locations
• Accepts MIDI directly from ReWire applications for recording controller data to a Pro Tools MIDI or Instrument track
• Unicode character support lets you label and edit text anywhere in Pro Tools in any language supported by Unicode (including Japanese, French, Greek, Russian, and Hebrew)

System Requirements

• Avid-qualified Intel-based Mac running Mac OS X 10.6.2 or higher (32- or 64-bit), or PC running Windows 7 Home Premium, Professional, or Ultimate (32- or 64-bit)
• 2 GB RAM (4 GB or more recommended)
• 15 GB free hard disk space
• Available USB port for iLok USB Smart Key connection (not included with upgrade or download versions)
• Supported M-Audio hardware interface (Mac | Windows | Bundles)