Meet the Pro Tools® 8 — the most advanced audio creation and production software, featuring a gorgeous interface; dozens of plug-ins; five virtual instruments; exciting scoring, MIDI, editing, and mixing capabilities; deeper controller integration; improved ease of installation and use; and enhanced performance. With Pro Tools 8, you get the most comprehensive music and sound creation features and functionality, and the proven, dedicated platform for world-class audio production — all in a single application.
Stunning Look and Interactivity
Sporting a sleek new look and enhanced functionality and interactivity, Pro Tools 8 is easier to use than ever, faster to work with, and offers more customizability to satisfy your needs.
A Well-Stocked Studio
Pro Tools 8 comes fully packed with over 70 groundbreaking virtual instruments, effects, and utility plug-ins, and over 8 GB of audio loops to jump-start your creativity.
More Tracks Than Ever in Pro Tools LE and Pro Tools M-Powered
Pro Tools LE® and Pro Tools M-Powered™ users get 3x more audio tracks (up to 48 simultaneous stereo or mono tracks) than previously to create larger, more complex mixes.
Score Your Music
The Score Editor lets you view, edit, arrange, and print MIDI data as music notation, allowing you to compose music using the notation tools or transcribe MIDI data in real time.
Complete MIDI Sequencing and Production
The MIDI Editor window in Pro Tools 8 takes sequencing with Pro Tools to a high level, boasting a comprehensive array of MIDI editing features, tools, and functionality that make it easier to compose with virtual instruments and sound modules.
Transpose with Elastic Pitch
As a complement to Pro Tools software’s powerful Elastic Time tempo and time manipulating tool, Pro Tools 8 introduces Elastic Pitch, which allows you to effortlessly manipulate or correct the pitch of any audio region in real time, right inside the Edit window.
Comp Tracks to Perfection
Capturing a flawless performance in a single take is often a rarity; with the track compositing workflows, you can craft the perfect performance from multiple takes faster and easier than ever.
Extended Hardware Control
Pro Tools 8 deepens its ICON console, Digidesign® control surface, and M-Audio® peripheral integration, letting you map plug-ins directly to your controller and more.
Expanded Pro Tools|HD Workflows
Pro Tools HD® 8 expands the capabilities of Pro Tools|HD audio hardware with options that allow you to sync with HD/SD video playback systems or even multiple Pro Tools|HD systems.
Effects and Instruments
Create and play music with groundbreaking virtual instruments, including Mini Grand piano, Boom retro drum machine, DB-33 tonewheel organ, Vacuum tube-modeled synth, Xpand!2 multipurpose synth/sample workstation, Structure Free sample player, and more. Dial-up luscious guitar tone, fix, enhance, polish, and master mixes to perfection using the dozens of world-class effects plug-ins, including compressors, EQs, delays, reverbs, and more. Quickly sketch out musical ideas using the included 8 GB of pro-quality audio loops. With Pro Tools, you’ve got a full palette of creative options to develop your ideas quickly, easily, and professionally.
Pro Tools 8 Bundled Content — The Complete List
In addition to M-Audio Torq LE DJ software and an incredible 8 GB collection of pro-quality loops from industry sound heavyweights Big Fish Audio, Pro Tools 8 software includes a comprehensive bundle of amazing virtual instruments, effects, and utility plug-ins.
Virtual Instruments and Audio Content
- 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
- Structure Free sample player (RTAS)
- FXpansion BFD Lite acoustic drum module
Music Creation
With its robust Sibelius underpinnings, Pro Tools 8 offers a Score Editor window that provides a wide range of standard notational tools for composing music. Write parts on a single staff (choose treble, alto, tenor, or bass clef) or grand staff. Place and edit notes in real time, and edit the meter, key signature, and more at whim. Add user-defined chord symbols (Dm7, G, and so on) and chord diagrams (for guitarists) to your sessions. Transcribe MIDI parts in real time. Print your score in its entirety or in parts. Even export sessions as Sibelius (.sib) files for further finessing in Sibelius.
Gain extensive MIDI editing power with the MIDI Editor window in Pro Tools 8 software, which can display MIDI and automation data for Instrument, MIDI, and Auxiliary Input tracks. Separate, consolidate, and mute MIDI notes, scrub and shuttle through parts, audition velocity changes, and play MIDI notes when tabbing. View MIDI parameters simultaneously (such as velocity, volume, and pan) and get quick access through multiple Automation and Controller lanes. Edit an entire MIDI Region Group. Even watch your musical handiwork scroll by during playback in real time in Notation or Piano Roll view.
While Pro Tools LE is more powerful than ever before, the optional Music Production Toolkit 2 takes it even a step further, empowering you with a wealth of music creation tools, features, and plug-ins (for serious musicians and music producers) and you can createto develop huge, complex mixes, with up to 64 simultaneous mono or stereo audio tracks.
Creative MIDI and Compositional Tools
From sketchpad songwriting to the final production, Pro Tools offers a wealth of tools for the creative composer — all in a single, comprehensive environment.
Pro Tools is the leader in audio editing and production, and its MIDI composition and sequencing features are equally as innovative. With intuitive editing views and techniques, you can create and manipulate MIDI alongside audio with ease using many of the same tools. You can also use the same automation and plug-in processing options on both Audio and Instrument tracks.
Use the Loop Trim tool to turn any audio or MIDI region into a loop instantly; Pro Tools always creates MIDI regions on bar boundaries to help with looping and arrangement. Click on the keyboard in a MIDI or Instrument track to quickly select all of the same-pitched notes of your performance for fast editing.
Pro Tools also provides a Key Signature ruler that lets you easily add, edit, move, and delete key signatures. You can specify major or minor, transpose MIDI pitches diatonically or chromatically, and even constrain pitches to a key.
ReWire Integration
Pro Tools supports your favorite ReWire-compatible applications, allowing you to integrate your work right into your Pro Tools mixes. Pro Tools software accepts MIDI controller data directly from ReWire applications for recording to a Pro Tools MIDI or Instrument track, allowing for a synergy that augments your creation possibilities.
Editing & Mixing
Pro Tools® software provides many powerful editing tools that no other recording system can match, offering a host of single-touch edit keys, editing tools, and other innovative features that allow you to view, organize, and execute edits quickly and easily.
Elastic Time
Elastic Time makes it super easy to change tempo or time on the fly. Change the tempo and timing of loops, music, dialog, and other sound files without cutting up a single sample of audio. Easily create loops from any audio file — even entire compositions — with the help of powerful tempo and transient analysis. And when you import audio files and loops, they automatically conform to match your session’s tempo.
Elastic Time lets you choose from several time-stretching algorithms, delivering the best-sounding processing in the industry — all on a per-track basis. Context Preview lets you easily audition loops and audio files in sync with the tempo of your session, regardless of their tempo. What’s more, you can fine-tune regions with precision control over each individual beat, using the Warp track view and Warp markers.
Easy, Yet Powerful
Edit in a single window environment and you’ll realize that Pro Tools became the industry standard not only because of its power, but also because it’s the easiest production environment to learn and use. Easily add crossfades between parts or edit points, make sample-accurate edits, tweak automation, rearrange entire sections, and more — all from within the Edit Window.
The Professional Editor’s Toolbelt
Pro Tools offers editing modes and tools to accommodate nearly every editing task you throw at it. Various editing modes allow you to move audio and MIDI elements with complete precision, while key navigation and specialized editing tools help you quickly move around your session and execute tasks instantly. For the ultimate efficiency, the Smart Tool automatically switches between the multiple edit tools, allowing you to stay focused on the task at hand.
The Power of Memory
Memory locations provide a powerful way to navigate your session while editing and arranging. You can set location markers to specific points in the Timeline, edit selections, or even a set of track display settings, allowing you to quickly recall each specific location with a keyboard shortcut, ensuring Pro Tools keeps up with your pace and workflow.
Pack Mentality
Region Groups, which consist of several different audio and MIDI regions grouped together as a single region, make song rearrangements and loop editing easy by allowing you to make edits across multiple tracks at once. By grouping several related regions together into one, you can make global changes to all grouped regions in one fell swoop, and move the group around freely — with all embedded regions staying in perfect sync.
Beat Detective
Beat Detective™ is a powerful tool for analyzing, editing, manipulating, and extracting rhythmic information from audio or MIDI regions. For example, you can use it to extract the timing and groove from a drum beat and apply that groove template to the bass part to ensure it’s tight in the pocket.
Unparalleled Automation
Everything in the Pro Tools environment can be automated, giving you full dynamic control and absolute recall of every session element, from track volume, mute and panning, to all plug-in parameters. All automation data stays tied to its corresponding audio and MIDI, enabling you to move regions without losing any automation information.
Crowd Control
Mix any combination of tracks together for a truly powerful and customized mixing experience. Use VCA Master tracks (Pro Tools HD software only) to emulate the operation of voltage-controlled amplifier channels on analog consoles, where a VCA channel fader can be used to control, group, or offset the signal levels of other channels on the console. Use relative grouping functions for linking tracks and their controls, and use Groups for editing several tracks (such as a pair of stereo tracks or a submix) while keeping them at the same relative volume level.
Dynamic Mixing
Forget having to manually stop and start the transport to make changes to your mix configuration — you can easily make many common changes on the fly in Pro Tools. Add or remove tracks; copy inserts and sends; change I/O routing; re-order tracks; and more — all without having to manually stop playback.
Pro Tools Plug-ins
Pro Tools® plug-ins are software tools developed by Digidesign and Pro Tools Development Partners™ that provide signal processing and virtual instrument options for Pro Tools. There’s a Pro Tools software plug-in for almost anything you can imagine, from instruments such as drum machines and synthesizers to popular effects like EQ, dynamics, reverb, pitch and time shifting, noise reduction, mastering, surround encoding, and much more.
Post Production
From assembling and capturing, editing and replacing, to mixing, processing and final delivery, Pro Tools software boasts more options for working with digital video than any other audio workstation, providing a seamless audio/video workflow experience.
Use Pro Tools software for recording Foley, sound effects, voiceovers, and dialog replacement. Choose from a wide range of instrument and effects plug-ins for sound design and creative music composition. Take advantage of a host of single-key edit commands to execute, organize, hear, and view your edits easily and nondestructively. Access the DigiBase file management utility to keep your project assets organized. Pro Tools’ tight integration of digital video lets your perform all your recording, editing, and sound design tasks with near sample accuracy against picture.
Pro Tools software offers the best digital mixing environment on the planet. Take advantage of integrated multi-channel mixing, panning, and processing, with support for all standard formats. Easily perform intricate dialog processing, noise reduction, room simulation in an instant. Use Pro Tools HD software with an optional control surface for greater hands-on control. Pro Tools software enables you to move projects seamlessly between the editorial and the mix stage with full compatibility using a single automation system.
Pro Tools software lets you easily exchange sessions and individual files with a full range of Avid and other video systems. Use DigiTranslator to import and export AAF, OMF, and MXF files to and from Pro Tools. Deliver even the largest projects rapidly and securely with the DigiDelivery file exchange system.
There are also options available for expanding the power of Digidesign’s Pro Tools LE systems to seamlessly work with video. The Digidesign DV Toolkit 2 option for Pro Tools LE systems provides a suite of powerful features ideal for post production, and expands your track count up to 64 simultaneous mono or stereo audio tracks. And with the Complete Production Toolkit option for Pro Tools LE, which combines both the Music Production Toolkit 2 and DV Toolkit 2 — and adds support for up to 128 simultaneous audio tracks full 7.1 surround mixing — surround mixing in Pro Tools has never been more accessible.
For Pro Tools|HD users, Satellite Link allows you to sync multiple Pro Tools|HD rigs together as one, without the expense of dedicated synchronizer hardware, while Video Satellite brings the Avid® video workflow to Pro Tools HD 8 in high definition, allowing you to play Avid sequences in sync with your Pro Tools session through an Avid Mojo® DX or Nitris DX peripheral while maintaining full audio track counts and processing power, while Video Satellite LE allows Pro Tools|HD users to offload HD QuickTime or Avid SD video on a separate sync’d Pro Tools LE system.
Work with Avid Video
Bring high-definition video into your audio production workflow. Video Satellite is a software option that allows Pro Tools|HD® editors to quickly and easily play Avid® HD or SD video sequences from a dedicated Windows-based computer, running Avid Media Composer® software, in sync with their Pro Tools® session. Video Satellite enhances post-production efficiency, eliminating the need to render effects, transcode video, or copy files. It also enables you to tap into Avid shared media environments to stream video. And because all video playback is offloaded onto a separate but synced computer, you can maintain the full audio track count and processing power of Pro Tools|HD.
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