Avid launches on November 12 Pro Tools 9, now with more flexibility and creative possibilities

Avid offers an unprecedented creative freedom to redefine the most popular sequencer in the world with a new set of tools exclusively software. By taking advantage of a new generation architecture, Pro Tools version 9, which will be available worldwide on November 12, offers customers the unprecedent option to work with Avid audio interfaces, from other manufacturers, or without any hardware when audio capabilities integrated into a PC or MAC computer are used.

Avid has just announced version 9 of Pro Tools, the most popular audio and musical creation platform in the industry. By taking advantage of a new generation architecture, version 9 of PRO Tools offers customers the unprecedented option of working with Avid audio interfaces, from other manufacturers, or without any hardware when the audio capabilities integrated into a PC or Mac computer are used. This option exclusively software for Pro Tools, never seen before, offers to customers the most open, flexible and complete version The main professional functions demanded by our clients. On the other hand, the new support of the Open Ethernet Avid Eucon protocol allows to expand the options of the control surfaces to include consoles and audio controllers of the Artist and Pro from AVID (formerly known as Euphonix consolers and controllers.

Pro Tools customers (from the enthusiastic beginner to the professional) can now create sophisticated and high sound quality mixtures, either from home, during their displacements or in a great study, through an open and flexible workflow that expands collaboration and creativity.

Open and flexible workflows

Customers can now design their own workflow through the new exclusively configuration Pro Tools software with their Avid's favorite audio interface or another brand (or autonomously) and with the artist and pro series controllers of Avid. Among other advantages, Pro Tools 9 allows users to work in their own way as a tool exclusively software, or if they prefer with optional hardware through various Avid audio interfaces or even other brands, as a result of the new support for Core Audio and Asio drivers.

In addition, the EUCON support will mean more options to perform manually mixtures using the new Pro Tools software or Pro Tools HD systems with the ability to efficient pro -tools by efficiency by integrating eucon using any controller or console of the artist or pro series, in addition to Avid audio control surfaces and other manufacturers.

On the other hand, many of the valuable features that were previously offered as accessories are now available directly to the product. Among others, highlighting the automatic delay compensation: it provides customers with version 9 of Pro Tools for the possibility of creating more quickly with the best sound. Now it is possible to mix and record with greater precision of alignment and phase, without manually compensating the latencies from the Hardware I/O, internal and external routing, and the processing of plug-ins algorithms: the main demand in the Pro Tools Ideascale user forum.

Pro Tools 9 also has more audio and buse tracks, allowing more elaborate musical and audio productions, with support for 96 mono or stereo voices in the new version only Pro Tools software (192 voices with Pro Tools HD systems), 256 internal buses and 160 auxiliary tracks.

An advanced production tools offers access to standard professional tools in Pro Tools version to create cleaner mixtures as soon as they get it out of the box. Users can analyze and adjust the timing on several clues to achieve a more tight pace with the Integrated Beat Detective multi-pista module, improve the organization and sharing of assets through the DIGIBSE PRO FILE MANAGEMENT tool, and save time thanks to the complete dialog box for the importation of session data.

Collaboration with other users

A series of improvements in the audio for image allows you to collaborate more easily with other audio and video software users, such as OMF/AAF/MXF exchange and MP3 export (the exchange of files and sessions will now be much simpler); Integrated time code rule for greater precision in the synchronization of the audio to the video during postproduction (only Pro Tools software configuration); Surround Panner 7.1 Updated; and a Nevo Panorama of variable depth with a panorama of authentic and precise tracks, similar to that of analog consoles.

Version 9 of the new Pro Tools and Pro Tools HD software will be available worldwide on November 12, 2010.