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Avid Pro Tools Ultimate Perpetual with 1 Year Updates and Support 9938-30007-00

Avid Pro Tools | Ultimate

Avid Pro Tools | Ultimate (formerly Pro Tools | HD) comes with everything you need to take on more demanding music and immersive audio productions. With advanced recording, editing, and automation tools and full surround sound support, you can create large-scale mixes with up to 192 inputs and 256 simultaneous audio tracks using just the software.

The industry-leading Pro Tools | Ultimate from Avid Technologies is designed for audio and post pros who need maximum track counts, high-level performance, and surround sound. It provides powerful and efficient tools to create music or sound for film/TV, and connect with a premier network of artists, producers, and mixers around the world via Avid Cloud. This full, download version of the software offers standalone functionality. It comes bundled with a 1-year Annual Upgrade and Support Plan, which provides access to the latest Pro Tools releases, including updates and upgrades, 25 bonus plug-ins, and priority support (renewable annually).

Pro Tools | Ultimate delivers pristine 32-bit/192 kHz sound with exceptionally low latency. Its 64-bit architecture lets you create massive mixes with up to 256 audio, 512 instrument, and 512 MIDI tracks. Creativity tools abound, including 60 virtual instruments, effects, and sound processing plug-ins, plus 25 bonus plug-ins. The software lets you quickly sketch new ideas. It comes with a 2GB loop library for loop-based music creation and Revision History, a feature that allows you to try out new ideas for a song and easily revert to a previous version without losing anything.

The mixing experience is enhanced with the addition of VCA Masters, which let you mix and control groups of tracks faster and easier, gain-reduction metering on every channel to gauge dynamics, and advanced automation tools that effortlessly automate the settings of nearly every element. The extended Disk Cache feature loads entire sessions into RAM, giving you a smoother and highly-responsive performance when recording and editing. Pro Tools | Ultimate is optimized to work with audio for video, allowing you to play and edit HD video and Avid DNxHD sequences, right in the timeline and with perfect frame accuracy.

Additionally, the software provides you with opportunities to expand your creative possibilities and work opportunities using Avid Cloud Collaboration. This feature enables you to find musicians for your project, easily share tracks and work on projects with your band mates, showcase your work, and gain exposure to promote your talent, while forging meaningful connections with the audio community.

MIX AND AUTOMATE MULTICHANNEL AUDIO

From mono and stereo sound, to 5.1, 7.1, and immersive audio, Pro Tools | Ultimate provides the most efficient workflows and advanced automation to handle the largest music, soundtrack, Dolby Atmos, and Ambisonics productions. Plus, VCA Masters, Track Freeze, and a built-in surround panner accelerate the mixing process. You can even explore alternative versions of a mix with Project Revisions.

SOUND YOUR BEST

Pro Tools is renowned for its sound.. And you don’t have to nail a perfect performance to create that perfect take. Hone performances with powerful tools, including loop recording and track playlists, and comp together a flawless performance from multiple passes. And replace parts quickly with punch-recording workflows.

TAKE HANDS-ON CONTROL OF YOUR MIX

Experience the deepest level of integration when you pair Pro Tools with any EUCON-enabled control surface—including Pro Tools | S6, Pro Tools | S3, Pro Tools | Dock, Pro Tools | Control, and Artist Mix. Speed up recording, editing, and mixing tasks with access to tracks, plug-ins, and automation control right from the surface. You can even create custom keys to perform practically any Pro Tools function with a single button press.

COLLABORATE IN THE CLOUD

Imagine being able to work on a project with other Pro Tools users online—as if you’re all working together in the same studio. You can with Avid Cloud Collaboration. Work with up to 10 collaborators on a single project. Access projects from anywhere using any Pro Tools-equipped computer. Need more space? Get a premium cloud plan, starting at just $4.99/month.

FUEL YOUR CREATIVITY WITH PRO PLUG-INS

Polish mixes with over 60 AAX plug-ins. From high-quality virtual instruments, to classic effects, you have everything to get started shaping and enhancing your sound. If you’re a subscriber or have a 1-Year Software Updates + Support Plan, you also get access to every audio plug-in Avid offers in the Avid Complete Plug-in Bundle, plus Pro Tools | MachineControl. Want more? Shop the in-app Marketplace any time—no shoes, shirt, or pants required.

EDIT AUDIO WITH EASE

Pro Tools | Ultimate offers advanced editing tools, so you can reshape sounds, fix what’s funky, and edit tracks with ultimate flexibility and precision. Quickly trim clips, replace regions, create automatic fades, and batch process fades and clip names. Change tempo or timing on the fly with Elastic Time. You can even make bad notes sound pitch perfect with Elastic Pitch.

CONNECT AND SHARE YOUR WORK

Pro Tools makes it easy to find new collaborators and clients to expand your creative opportunities. Connect online with an extensive network of media professionals in the Avid Artist Community, where you can share your mixes and promote your skills.

BUILD UP YOUR SOUND

Fuel your creativity with a wide range of virtual instruments to create the parts you need. Lay down beats with the drum machine and sampler. Add bass, guitar, horns, strings, piano, and other accompaniments. And layer in a variety of other sounds to build up your song—from world instruments to sound effects.

GET INSPIRED AND BUILD UP TRACKS FAST

Looking for that perfect beat, orchestral hit, or sonic boom? Soundbase makes it a snap to browse and experiment with loops, samples, and sound effects from your libraries and hear how they sound in context with your tracks. To get you started, Pro Tools comes with 2 GB of high-quality loops to wake up mixes and give your projects that sonic edge.

WORK WITH MIDI AND NOTATION

Pro Tools works with all MIDI controllers and features a comprehensive MIDI Editor to create richer, more inspired performances—from tweaking notes, layering sounds, and switching up instruments, to adjusting dynamics, timing, and more. It also offers a Score Editor to create and edit music using notation. You can even export sessions to Sibelius for further finessing.

WORK WITH SOUND FOR PICTURE

Pro Tools | Ultimate enables you to play and edit HD video and Avid DNxHD sequences right in the Pro Tools timeline, so you can create and mix soundtracks in sync with the picture. Edit audio clips with timecode precision and position them perfectly in the scene. And clean up tracks and ensure every bit of dialog, music, and sound is heard using plug-ins and automation.

MIX IN DOLBY ATMOS

Dolby Atmos is the hottest thing in cinema and home theater, delivering bigger, more immersive audio experiences to viewers. Pro Tools | Ultimate offers the most efficient Dolby Atmos mixing workflows in the industry—with support for Atmos 7.1.2 audio stems, native object panning, advanced automation, ADM BWAV support, and deep Avid control surface integration.

EDIT AND MIX VR AUDIO

Produce immersive full-sphere surround sound mixes for virtual reality content—from start to finish—right in Pro Tools | Ultimate. Easily edit and mix audio in a 3D space with support for first-, second-, and third-order Ambisonics formats across your Pro Tools tracks and busses. Then output and deliver content to the required format for playback.

RECORD ADR AND FOLEY

With support for 64 tracks of video, Pro Tools makes it easy to record and sync voiceovers and dialog replacement to picture with perfect frame accuracy. Foley artists can watch a scene unfold as they re-create a sound effect to ensure they nail the nuances and timing. For Pro Tools | HDX users, you can expedite audio re-recording “in the box” with perfect click-free punch-ins using any punch mode.

DESIGN SOUNDS AND SOUNDSCAPES

Whether you’re creating sound that defines or defies reality, Pro Tools enables you to sculpt, shape, and transform audio quickly and build up scenes from scratch. Tweak and destroy sounds to create new ones with an army of plug-ins and Elastic Audio. Trim clips and nudge video frames for precision placement. And quickly adjust gain levels with Clip Gain.

APPLY REAL-TIME EFFECTS TO CLIPS

Tweak the sound of a clip without affecting the entire track. With Clip Effects, you can apply real-time EQ and dynamics to a single clip or clip group on your timeline, enabling you to have different settings across multiple clips on a track. This gives you more precision control when working with multiple clips of related audio, such as dialog or voiceovers.

CONNECT TEAMS WITH AVID NEXIS

Easily connect your audio team into the industry’s most efficient media production environment—MediaCentral—through Avid NEXIS storage. Access shared projects. Gain new collaborative audio workflows. And increase productivity, while maximizing content turnaround speed, by eliminating the time wasted moving files between systems.

COLLABORATE ON VIDEO PROJECTS

If you’re working independently, you can easily share your audio mixes with Media Composer editors by exporting tracks or an entire session as an AAF file. Pro Tools also supports XAVC Long GOP files and 1080p50 project types, enabling you to work your audio editing and mixing magic on projects that use these formats.

System Requirements

Mac

Intel Core i7 processor (Ivy Bridge, Haswell, Westmere recommended)

OS X 10.9.5, 10.10.5, 10.11.6, and macOS 10.12.2

8 GB RAM (16 GB or more recommended)

15 GB disk space for installation

2 GB additional space required for loop library installation (optional)

USB port for iLok 2 or iLok 3 authorization (iLok included)

PCIe slot for HDX or HD Native card (including one power connection on motherboard) or Thunderbolt port for HD Native, supported PCIe chassis or Core Audio-supported audio device

Internet connection for installation

Supports 64-bit AAX Native, AAX AudioSuite plug-ins

Windows

Intel Xeon processor

Windows 7 (Home Premium, Professional, Ultimate 64-bit Editions), Windows 8/8.1 (Standard, Pro 64-bit Editions), Windows 10 (Home, Pro, Enterprise 64-bit Editions)