Avid Pro Tools | Ultimate Perpetual with 1-Year Updates and Support Plan Audio and Music Creation Software (Retail, Boxed)

Avid Pro Tools Overview

Avid Pro Tools | Ultimate Perpetual with 1-Year Updates and Support Plan is the go-to audio-production software for professionals working in high-end music and audio-post facilities, who require the full power and advanced workflows of Pro Tools to tackle the most challenging and complex projects. Get full track and I/O counts and Pro Tools | HDX DSP acceleration to track and mix the largest music productions with ease and record pristine 32-bit float / 192 kHz audio sound with depth, dimension, and near-zero latency.

Bringing ideas to life is easy with the SoundFlow Cloud workflow-automation platform, real-time MIDI tools, a massive collection of classic outboard processors, coveted musical instruments, loops, analog consoles, and some of the world s most popular guitar effects over 115 plug-ins in total. The 64 video tracks enable you to cut and mix sound to picture with great precision. You can also mix both stereo and immersive multichannel audio projects with fully automated ease to create Dolby Atmos music or work with Ambisonics. Elevate your recording and mixing experience with tightly integrated audio interfaces and mixing surfaces including the S6 and S6L.

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).

Capture Inspired Performances

Ever have that moment where you play something amazing but didn t hit record? With Retrospective MIDI Record, you can bring in those MIDI improvisations retroactively to recoup that spontaneity.

Create the Perfect Take

Experience the easiest audio comping workflow for creating flawless performances quickly. You can even cycle through different playlist takes to hear what works best and create something truly inspired.

Edit Your Way, Tweak Audio Timing and Pitch

With Pro Tools | Ultimate, you can reshape sounds, fix issues, chop, cut, and tweak audio and MIDI tracks with ultimate flexibility and precision. Trim clips, edit notes, and add fades with the Smart Tool. Change tempo or timing on the fly with Elastic Time. You can even make bad notes sound pitch-perfect with Elastic Pitch.

Advanced and Accurate Mix Automation

From VCA Masters, Track Freeze, and professional metering to the unrivaled ability to automate practically anything from track volumes and panning to plug-in settings and sends in your mix all this makes the art of mixing music and soundtracks fast and easy. Automatic delay compensation corrects for delays incurred by plug-ins and mixer routing as well as side-chaining.

SoundFlow Cloud Workflow Automation Platform

SoundFlow is a state-of-the-art workflow automation platform that enables Pro Tools users to reduce complex, many-step tasks to single keystrokes or presses on a touch surface.

SoundFlow Cloud Avid Edition provides access to over 1600 prebuilt macros and commands for Pro Tools that can be custom-assigned and triggered by keyboard shortcuts, MIDI controllers, and HID devices. Whether bouncing stems, navigating plug-ins in large sessions, or triggering complex workflows, SoundFlow saves users significant time and enables them to stay in their creative flow.

Mix Dolby Atmos Music and Export Dolby Atmos ADM Files Directly

Pro Tools | Ultimate adds surround mixing capabilities for multichannel mixing in Dolby Atmos and Ambisonics.

Say goodbye to all the tedious time spent bouncing Dolby Atmos mixes to ADM (Audio Definition Model) files in real time. With Pro Tools | Ultimate, you can directly export and import ADM files to and from Pro Tools in faster-than-real-time offline mode, greatly streamlining your workflow. All groups and their associated beds and objects in the mix are embedded in the file, making delivery easy.

Fine-Tune MIDI Performances

Quantize notes. Adjust note durations. Transpose recordings. Add dynamics by varying note velocities. Rearrange parts with Folder Tracks. Add more humanistic soul using MIDI Real-Time Properties.

Turn Audio to MIDI and Vice-Versa

Drag an audio sample to a MIDI track or convert an audio track to MIDI, and you can change the instrument, switch out samples, and edit notes. Or, drag a MIDI clip to an audio track for more creative editing possibilities. Audio-to-MIDI allows you to repitch notes and play with the timing. It not only works with melodic material, but you can also convert percussive and polyphonic recordings.

Change Pitch and Time with Melodyne

The Celemony Melodyne essential plug-in makes it easy to fix bad notes, hold out good ones, tighten up grooves, or even rearrange the melody, all with natural-sounding results. Perfect vocal and instrument performances quickly, or get more creative with them using the core tool set.

Pro Tools | GrooveCell and Pro Tools | SynthCell Virtual Instruments

Pro Tools | GrooveCell is a virtual drum machine and sequencer that makes it easy to create intricate beats and drum patterns in Pro Tools. You can use the included sounds and presets or build custom drum kits by dragging and dropping your own samples onto the drumpads (MP3, WAV, or AIFF).

Pro Tools | SynthCell is a modern virtual synth that offers a wide palette of sounds in Pro Tools from old-school familiar to the truly unique. Sporting two oscillators, two multimode filters, an LFO, envelopes, an arpeggiator, and a variety of effects, you can start sculpting your own sounds from scratch or cruise through the library of presets and instantly find something organic, distorted, smooth, chaotic, or analog, without ever touching a knob.

Fuel Your Creativity with Pro Plug-Ins

Polish mixes with access to HEAT (to bring analog warmth and color to your mixes) and every audio plug-i