MUSIC SOFTWARE FOR EVERYONE

Pro Tools | First

Start creating with free music software for students, musicians, and podcasters

Pro Tools

Get the industry standard audio-production software for songwriters, musicians, producers, and engineers

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Take on demanding professional music and audio post productions

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Pro Tools is always getting better with new features and improvements. And with your active plan, you get them as soon as we release them. See what's new in Pro Tools.

Discover exciting new ways to createNEW!

Whether you make music or work with sound for picture, the latest Pro Tools brings new features and a dramatic new Dark theme to your studio. Power music creation with Audio-to-MIDI capabilities, Melodyne 5 essentials, and Pro Tools | Carbon support. Streamline Dolby Atmos and game audio workflows. And venture to the dark side with a sleek new interface theme.

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EXPRESS YOURSELF

MUSIC CREATION 

When inspiration strikes, nothing empowers your creativity like Pro Tools. That’s why top artists, musicians, and audio professionals choose it for everything they do.

The ultimate way to record and create

Thousands of instrument sounds. Seamless punch and loop recording. Automated playlist tracking. All in pristine 24-bit/192kHz audio quality. With Pro Tools, you can make music with up to 768 audio and 1,024 MIDI tracks and use hundreds of plugins to create your sound. All you need is your imagination.

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Compose with MIDI and notation

Nudge notes. Layer sounds. Switch instruments. Transpose parts. The flexible MIDI Editor makes it easy to create and perfect parts. You can even capture MIDI performances and improvisations retroactively. Or view MIDI as music notation in the Sibelius-style Score Editor.

Build up productions on the fly

With Track Presets, you can quickly save, catalog, and recall your favorite effects chains, instrument sounds, vocal processing, and other track settings. It eliminates tedious tinkering, so you can spend more time creating.

Jumpstart your sound with loops, samples, and VIs

Create the parts you need with a wide variety of virtual instrument sounds at your fingertips. Pro Tools music software comes with over 5 GB of high-quality sounds, so you can find the perfect beat, orchestral hit, or piano tone. Plus, you can browse and experiment with loops, samples, and sound effects in context with your tracks.

Get industry-leading audio editing

Pro Tools is renowned for its powerful editing toolset, enabling you to manipulate and perfect nearly every aspect of your audio and MIDI tracks. From trimming clips and reshaping sounds with a single click, to comping together a flawless performance, you can optimize any track with precision.

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Edit intelligently with the Smart Tool

Perform multiple types of edits quickly and precisely with a single tool. The Smart Tool provides instant access to every editing tool, changing functions based on your cursor position, eliminating manual tool switching.

Fix timing and pitch with Elastic Audio

Easily tighten up and perfect performances without impacting your original sound. With Elastic Time, you can switch the entire session tempo, change a track’s timing to sit “in the pocket,” or beat-match audio for remixing—without affecting the pitch. Plus, make bad notes sound pitch-perfect or completely warp a track’s tuning to create something unique with Elastic Pitch.

Comp together a perfect performance

Easily comp together multiple takes of a recording to create a single flawless performance. Select portions of a performance and easily cycle through alternative takes. Or, use the Target Playlist to select the best performances from multiple playlists in Waveform view. It’s a great way to explore different improvisations to hear what works best.

Bring your mix to life

From professional-quality plugins and advanced metering, to the best mixing automation in the industry, you have the award-winning sounds and control you need to create and deliver your best mixes. Whether working in stereo, 5.1 surround, or Dolby Atmos, Pro Tools makes the entire experience easy.

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Automate anything

Automate volumes, pans, plugin settings, and more to create balanced mixes quickly. Isolate instruments. Punch up sounds. Create and alter effects. Add movement. Then, change up dynamics and intensity to bring everything together. It’s the easiest, most creative way to handle big complex mixes, without requiring manual performance.

Mix creatively and fluidly during playbackNEW!

With non-stop production, you can stay in your creative groove. Create and delete tracks, add and change plugins, switch presets, adjust loop points and more as your music plays. Freely experiment with 115 different plugins, including emulations of classic hardware EQs, dynamics, and reverb units, without interruption.

Freeze tracks to optimize playback

Mix plugin-heavy sessions with ease. Track Freeze lets you temporarily render all plugin processing on a track with a click of a button to free up CPU power, providing smoother playback for writing and editing automation. It also enables cloud collaborators to hear your mix the way you intend it, without the same plugins. You can then unfreeze tracks to make changes.

 

Create infinitely with UVI Falcon 2

UVI Falcon 2 is an incredible virtual instrument that makes it easy to create real world and out-of-this-world sounds. Included with Pro Tools at no extra charge. 

UVI Falcon is an incredible virtual instrument that makes it easy to create real world and not-of-this-world sounds. Included with Pro Tools at no extra charge.

Create fresh sounds fast

UVI Falcon 2 comes with an expansive, curated sound pack that makes it easy to jump right in and start sculpting sounds immediately. Simply drag and drop samples and effects into UVI Falcon 2 to layer parts and build up sounds, quickly and effortlessly.

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Explore, experiment, and go deep

Create unique sounds with deep control over every aspect of your patches. With 15 oscillators, 80+ effects, and all the sample and synthesis modulation, mixing, and scripting capabilities you could ever want, your sonic possibilities are endless.

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Spark ideas with tons of patches

UVI Falcon 2 includes Factory Sounds, a versatile and extremely high-quality collection of 1,000 patches. Explore your creative possibilities—from classic synths, percussion, and physical modeling, to sample-driven multi-granular soundscapes and multi-oscillator hybrids.

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Get inspired with 2.6 GB of top-quality samples

UVI Falcon 2 and UVI Workstation come with Plugsound Avid Edition, a great-sounding sample library loaded with high-quality keyboard sounds, synthesized sounds, loops, drums, percussion, fretted instruments, and more to help get you started.


Massive power, infinite possibilities

  • Generate and layer together sounds with 15 sample-based and synthesis oscillators optimized for efficient performance
  • Shape sounds with over 80 high-quality effects at your fingertips—from EQs and dynamics, to delays, reverbs, filters, distortion, and more
  • Slice, stretch, silence, shift, and scrub samples with the full-fledged sample editor
  • Produce multichannel, multidimensional sounds in up to 10.2 surround
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Explore, experiment, and go deep 

Work with a wide variety of audio loops, samples, files, and instruments, including Soundbanks (.ufs), AIFF, FLAC, MP3, MP4, REX1, REX2, SDII, WAV, SFZ, SND, CAF, and EXS

  • Save your own presets for nearly any module, so you can easily recall ideas for future use
  • Add motion with eight modulation generators that can be used to affect almost anything in the UVI Falcon 2 environment
  • Create your own event processors and skinned instruments from scratch using scripting, or create fully customized macro-driven interfaces
  • Expand your sonic palette with a wide variety of UVI instruments and sounds available from Avid
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GOT PRO TOOLS | FIRST?

Play and tweak sounds with UVI Workstation

UVI Workstation 3 is included for free, providing a powerful sample player and multitimbral instrument to create unique sounds. Play audio content, layer and manipulate parts, and employ an army of effects that’ll make your projects stand out.

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UVI Falcon 2 and Plugsound Avid Edition are included with Pro Tools and Pro Tools | Ultimate subscriptions and 1-Year Software Updates + Support Plans at no additional cost (a $498 USD value!). UVI Workstation 3 is included for free with Pro Tools | First.


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Fuel your creativity with pro plugins


Pro Tools | Ultimate
115 plugins

Pro Tools
115 plugins NEW!

Pro Tools | First
23 plugins



Classic compressors and EQs. Groundbreaking virtual instruments. Legendary stompboxes. Powerful reverbs. The world’s greatest guitar amps, and much more—all at your fingertips. Get access to an entire studio full of gear with the Avid Complete Plugin Bundle3 months of Auto-Tune Unlimited, and HEAT now included with all Pro Tools subscriptions.

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Stream and sell your music worldwide

Get your music on Apple Music, Spotify, Pandora, TIDAL, Deezer, TikTok, Amazon Music, iHeartRadio, and many more of the most popular streaming outlets around the world. AvidPlay makes music distribution easy and accessible to all, enabling you to grow your fanbase and keep 100% of your rights and earnings. It’s the easiest way to take control of your career and get discovered.

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AVID CLOUD COLLABORATION

Work with anyone, anywhere

Imagine being able to collaborate on a project with bandmates, another artist, songwriter, or producer without anyone leaving their house. With Avid Cloud Collaboration, endless creative possibilities and opportunities await. All you need is Pro Tools audio-production software and an Internet connection.

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AVID LINK

Connect. Collaborate. Get discovered.

With Avid Link in the Pro Tools interface, you can find and connect with a community of music creators and audio professionals to collaborate and expand your creative opportunities. Plus, get your music heard on Apple Music, Spotify, Pandora, and dozens of other major streaming outlets with AvidPlay.

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MOVE AUDIENCES WITH SOUND

AUDIO POST PRODUCTION 

Power your sound with the tools that power the industry. Pro Tools redefines what’s sonically possible in film and television.

Create sound for picture

Capture, design, and build up rich sonic elements and ambience that bring life to moving pictures. With up to 768 voices/audio tracks and 64 HD/UHD video tracks at your disposal, you can create larger-than-life soundtracks with impeccable clarity across all dialogue, overdubs, sound design, music, and effects.

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Edit with surgical precisionNEW!

Work directly with 4K/UHD video, H.264 media, and higher frame rates, enabling you to place and edit sound to picture with greater precision and accuracy. From trimming clips and nudging video frames, to adjusting gain levels and working with 3D audio, Pro Tools makes it fast and easy to tweak and sync sounds to picture.

Collaborate with video teams

Pro Tools makes it easy to import and conform sequences from video editorial for audio post production. It supports 4K/UHD and other video formats natively, enabling you to start working your audio magic without editors needing to transcode video first. You can also quickly exchange mixes between audio and video teams as AAF files.

PRO TOOLS | ULTIMATE

Apply real-time effects to clips

With Clip Effects, you can apply real-time EQ and dynamics to a single audio clip or clip group, enabling multiple clips to have different effects and settings without affecting the rest of the track. It’s ideal for fine-tuning dialogue and voiceovers with variance between clips. Not only does it save you time, it provides better session efficiency.

Mix and deliver any size audio production

Get the mixing power and hands-on control you need to handle the most complex Dolby Atmos and Ambisonics productions. Automate anything—levels, plugins, pans, and more—and Pro Tools will handle the multitude of element adjustments, dynamics, and complex movement tasks for you. So you can focus on creating and delivering your best mix.

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Manage large sessions with ease

Mix soundtracks comprised of hundreds of tracks and thousands of clips efficiently with groups. Create a Mix Group to make adjustments to multiple tracks simultaneously. Use VCA masters to adjust overall group levels while maintaining individual track automation. When using a control surface, you can spill VCA groups across your controls to make quick tweaks to individual tracks.

PRO TOOLS | ULTIMATE

Mix for Netflix with confidenceNEW!

Pro Tools | Ultimate is now part of the Netflix Post Technology Alliance. We’ve worked closely with Netflix to ensure that Pro Tools solutions support Netflix’s technical and workflow requirements today, and into the future. That means you can deliver Netflix-ready mixes quickly, easily, and confidently.

PRO TOOLS | ULTIMATE

Deliver multiple mixes in a single fileNEW!

Deliver mixes between audio post-production teams and organizations easily, with the ability to bounce multiple Pro Tools stems into a single WAV file. Recipients can then open the stems in separate Pro Tools tracks on file import, preserving the original mixes.

Experience the most powerful immersive audio mixing solution

Together, Pro Tools software, hardware, and Avid control surfaces are the most widely used solution for mixing immersive audio in Hollywood. Whether you’re mixing Dolby Atmos or other 3D audio for film or TV, working in a large mixing stage or a small editing suite, Pro Tools provides the performance and flexibility to meet your needs.

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PRO TOOLS| ULTIMATE

Mix Dolby Atmos productions

Get the most efficient Dolby Atmos mixing workflows in the industry. Work natively with Atmos 7.1.2 audio stems and object panning. Mix faster while preserving audio fidelity with advanced automation and ADM BWAV support. And get deep Avid control surface integration to accelerate the entire mixing process with hands-on precision.

PRO TOOLS| ULTIMATE

Simplify Dolby Atmos “in the box” mixing

With the latest Dolby Atmos Production Suite and enhanced Core Audio support for Dolby Audio Bridge, you can now send 130 channels from Pro Tools (up from 32) to the Dolby Atmos Renderer. Streamline your mixing and monitoring workflow with a solution that enables you to pre-mix Dolby Atmos projects in any room.

PRO TOOLS| ULTIMATE

Edit and mix VR audio

Create immersive full-sphere surround sound mixes for virtual reality productions—from start to finish. 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.

PRO TOOLS | ULTIMATE VOICE PACKS

Expand your voice count

Create bigger mixes with up to 768 voices/audio tracks—without requiring HDX hardware. Add up to three Voice Packs (128 extra voices per pack) to maximize the total number of available voices in Pro Tools | Ultimate software or Pro Tools | HD Native.

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POWER YOUR PERFORMANCE

SURFACES + HARDWARE

Pro Tools is more than just software. It’s an ecosystem of tightly integrated software, hardware, and control surfaces that work together to accelerate your workflow.

Get hands-on control of your mix

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Avid Dock

Avid Dock

Speed up editing and mixing tasks with a full transport, focus fader, jog wheel, and touch control in an ultra-portable surface. Working in concert with the free Avid Control app, Avid Dock provides the access and tactile precision you need to complete projects quickly.

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Avid S1

Avid S1

Mix with the speed and visual feedback of Avid's high-end consoles in a slimline surface. Avid S1 works together with the free Avid Control app on your tablet, providing 8 faders and Avid S6-style metering and processing views to create great-sounding mixes fast.

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Avid S3

Avid S3

Get a streamlined yet versatile mixing system for music and audio post. Based on the award-winning Avid S6 control surface, Avid S3 delivers intelligent control over every aspect of Pro Tools and other DAWs, all in a more portable and affordable 16-fader surface.

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Avid S4

Avid S4

Get world-class mixing for smaller studios for budget-conscious pros and smaller facilities. Avid S4 boosts your mixing efficiency with the same touchscreen and Dolby Atmos workflows in a semi-modular design that provides intelligent DAW control.

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Avid S6

Avid S6

Experience the most intuitive, immersive mixing workflows for modern sound engineers. Avid S6 provides superior ergonomics, intelligent studio control, and the most efficient Dolby Atmos workflows in a fully customizable surface, enabling you to create the best sounding mixes possible—faster.

Artist Mix 8-fader compact control surface

Artist Mix

Artist Mix

Mix projects with greater speed than using a mouse. The 8-fader Artist Mix provides precision control and fast access to a variety of software functions right from the surface. All in a compact footprint that fits perfectly between your keyboard and display.

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AVID CONTROL

Get wireless control of your mix

Take control of Pro Tools and more with a free app for iOS, iPadOS, and Android devices. Record and mix faster and easier than working with a mouse and keyboard alone.

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PRO TOOLS | CARBON

Built to capture brilliance

For artists, bands, and producers, Pro Tools | Carbon is a new breed of audio interface—built to capture brilliance. It’s a hybrid audio production system that features incredible sound quality and combines the power of your native CPU with onboard HDX DSP acceleration. So you can push your computer to the limit when you mix and record through AAX DSP plugins with near-zero latency monitoring. All at the touch of a button. All in Pro Tools.

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HDX Systems

PRO TOOLS | HDX SYSTEMS

Power to push limits

In recording studios and on soundstages, Pro Tools | HDX Systems make the world’s biggest productions possible. Engineered for the highest performance, customization, and expansion. And featuring software, DSP acceleration, and hardware I/O perfectly joined together as one system. They enable music and audio post professionals to deliver their most demanding work. Without constraint.

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Extend your workflow

Expand your creative opportunities with solutions to extend your Pro Tools capabilities, integration, and workflow.

Enable multi-system sync, extended video workflow capabilities, and collaboration in the studio and beyond.


Avid NEXIS | PRO

Get professional-class shared storage for independent pros and small workgroups.

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MediaCentral

Accelerate your media workflow with a unified platform that enables teams to collaborate anywhere.

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Pro Tools | Video Satellite

Bring high-quality video into your audio production workflow.

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Pro Tools | Satellite Link

Simplify multi-operator mixing by controlling multiple Pro Tools systems from a single interface.

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Avid Premium Cloud Plans

Expand your storage space for Pro Tools Cloud Collaboration.

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Avid Artist I/O

Capture, monitor, and output SD, HD, UHD, HDR, and surround content with unique video interfaces.

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AVID REWARDS

Get more value

Whether you’re a new or longtime Pro Tools user, get additional software and gifts from our valued partners (worth more than $1,000 USD)—it’s our way of saying thank you!

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AVID LINK

Connect anywhere on Avid Link

Find, connect, and collaborate with other music, audio, TV, film, and broadcast professionals around the world and expand your creative opportunities.

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SPECIAL OFFER

Elevate and boost your sound

Get both the Aural Exciter and Big Bottom Pro in one incredible bundle for Pro Tools.

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TUTORIALS

Get going with Pro Tools, and learn tips and tricks to maximize your creative experience. 

Quickstart templates

Turn your ideas into songs quickly using templates

Build a session from scratch

Add tracks, virtual instruments, and more to a project

Writing and riffing

Record tracks and copy/paste audio to build up a song

Building it out

Record, edit, and loop drum and other MIDI parts

In the pocket

Perfect performances using Elastic Audio and more

Simplicity in mixing

Balance faders, add plugins, and more

Quickstart templates

Turn your ideas into songs quickly using templates

Build a session from scratch

Add tracks, virtual instruments, and more to a project

Writing and riffing

Record tracks and copy/paste audio to build up a song

Building it out

Record, edit, and loop drum and other MIDI parts

In the pocket

Perfect performances using Elastic Audio and more

Simplicity in mixing

Balance faders, add plugins, and more

Introduction to Folder Track

Learn the basics of Folder Tracks in Pro Tools.

Folder Tracks for Audio Post Production

Learn tips and tricks for using Folder Tracks in audio post production.

Folder Tracks for Music Production

Learn tips and tricks for using Folder Tracks in music production.

Retrospective MIDI record

Capture ideas and improvisations post-performance

Track presets with playlists

Use track presets for playlists, templates, and media

Track comping for post

Get tips for comping ADR performances

Edit window scrolling

Change Edit window scrolling modes during playback

Navigation shortcuts

Get to where you want to go faster with shortcuts

Search plugins and busses

Use search within menus to speed up your workflow

Multiselect within menus

Select multiple items in menus, saving time

Relative grid

Get insight into the improved relative grid workflow

Retrospective MIDI record

Capture ideas and improvisations post-performance

Track presets with playlists

Use track presets for playlists, templates, and media

Track comping for post

Get tips for comping ADR performances

Edit window scrolling

Change Edit window scrolling modes during playback

Navigation shortcuts

Get to where you want to go faster with shortcuts

Search plugins and busses

Use search within menus to speed up your workflow

Multiselect within menus

Select multiple items in menus, saving time

Relative grid

Get insight into the improved relative grid workflow

Using Boom (part 1)

Lay down beats with this virtual drum machine

Using Boom (part 2)

Program your own drum parts in Boom

MIDI Editor (part 1)

View and record instrument parts

MIDI Editor (part 2)

Edit virtual instrument and MIDI parts

Score your music

Write music with built-in notation tools

Comp tracks

Create perfect takes by comping together tracks

Work in playlist view

Record vocal and instrument performances easily

Intro to Elastic Time

Work with audio tracks in the same way as MIDI

Using Boom (part 1)

Lay down beats with this virtual drum machine

Using Boom (part 2)

Program your own drum parts in Boom

MIDI Editor (part 1)

View and record instrument parts

MIDI Editor (part 2)

Edit virtual instrument and MIDI parts

Score your music

Write music with built-in notation tools

Comp tracks

Create perfect takes by comping together tracks

Work in playlist view

Record vocal and instrument performances easily

Intro to Elastic Time

Work with audio tracks in the same way as MIDI

POWER YOUR SOUND

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Pro Tools has an option for everyone, from students just starting out, to artists, musicians, producers, mixers, and audio post professionals.

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Pro Tools | First

Start creating with free music software for students, musicians, and podcasters

Pro Tools

Get the industry standard audio-production software

Pro Tools | Ultimate

Take on demanding professional music and audio post productions

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Students and teachers

Get special pricing on Pro Tools, starting at $9.99/mo USD, with verified academic eligibility.

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