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supports
a wide choice of M-Audio interfaces including all Delta PCI and
FireWire products, Black Box, M-Audio Ozone, Fast Track USB, MobilePre
USB and Transit
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supports M-Audio’s ProjectMix I/O and Digidesign’s Command|8 control surfaces for hands-on mixing
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industry-standard session compatibility with countless Pro Tools-equipped project and professional studios around the world
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award-winning Pro Tools mixing environment
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32-track audio recording***, editing, and mixing up to 24-bit/96kHz
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real-time audio processing
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import MIDI, REX, ACID, WAV, AIFF, AAC, MP3, and CD audio files
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works on Windows XP and Mac OS X systems including Apple Quad processor and systems
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unique Beat Detective LE automatic groove analysis and correction tool
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expandable via Music Production Toolkit***
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co-exists with Pro Tools LE on the same system
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Recording
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powerful loop recording options
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low-latency monitoring while recording
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real-time
MIDI processing enables control of MIDI quantization, note duration and
velocity, transposition, and timing as you record
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QuickPunch functionality
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Advanced MIDI
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256 tracks of powerful, intuitive MIDI sequencing
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new
Instrument Tracks combine MIDI and audio capabilities in a single
channel strip, simplifying routing for virtual instruments and MIDI
sound modules
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sample-based MIDI tracks lock MIDI events to time code regardless of session tempo changes
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Zoom Toggle switches quickly between two different user-defined settings in the Edit window
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Mirrored MIDI editing mode allows adjustments made to one MIDI file to affect all existing copies of that region
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additional MIDI features including:
- enhanced
Select/Split Notes window enables splitting a MIDI performance into
multiple tracks by MIDI note, velocity, duration, or position
- Remove Duplicate Notes command allows users to quickly clean up recorded or merged MIDI tracks
- Change Duration window offers legato, overlap correction, and transform sustain pedal features
- Transpose window transposes all selected notes in octaves and semitones
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Editing
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fully non-destructive editing with world-class tools
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Region Groups allow grouping of any combination of audio and MIDI regions, across any number of tracks
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Region Looping offers an easy way to repeat one or more regions and Region Groups
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Separate
on Grid and Separate at Transient functions allow editing of
multi-track audio regions simultaneously, based on a grid value or
transients in an audio file
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quantize audio regions according to a grid or groove template
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"reverse" Strip Silence functionality allows for extracting louder portions of audio tracks
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Mixing
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host processing efficiency allows you to run many select RTAS effects and instrument plug-ins simultaneously
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to 32 internal mix busses and up to10 sends per track increases mixing
flexibility and allows larger, more complex mixing architectures |
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copy or move send assignments across tracks via drag-and-drop
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Automate All command allows arming automation of all plug-in parameters at once
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free Dynamics III DigiRack plug-in allows easy and powerful control of mix dynamics
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EQ
III includes a new filter band-pass solo mode, making it easy to
isolate and remove unwanted signals or noise in an audio track
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advanced automation features and editing
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Effects and Virtual Instruments
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wide range of compatible creative software options available from Digidesign and Digidesign Development Partners including:
- real-time RTAS effects plug-in processing; file-based AudioSuite effects plug-in processing
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virtual instrument integration including free Xpand! advanced synthesis
instrument with over 1000 presets, up to four layers and two effects
- new Dynamics III DigiRack plug-in (included) allows easy and powerful control of mix dynamics
- EQ III (included) features a filter band-pass solo mode to easily isolate and remove unwanted signals or noise in an audio track
- ships with over 43 more free RTAS and AudioSuite plug-ins, including EQ, dynamics, delays, reverb and more:
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Factory: Essential Clip Remover, Essential Correlation, Essential Meter
Bridge, Essential Noise Meter, Essential Tuner, BF76, Funk Logic
Mastererizer
- o DigiRack: 1-Band EQ, 4-Band EQ, Chorus, Click,
Compressor, D-Verb, D-Verb-AS, DC Offset Removal, Delay, DeEsser,
DigiReWire, Dither, Duplicate, Dynamics II, Dynamics III, EQ II, EQ
III, Expander-Gate, Extra-Long Delay, Flanger, Gain, Gate,
Invert-Duplicate, Limiter, Long Delay, Medium Delay, Mod Delay, Mod
Delay II, Multi-Tap Delay, Normalize-Gain Change, Ping-Pong Delay,
Pitch Shift, Reverse-DC Removal, Short Delay, Signal Generator, Slap
Delay, Time Comp-Exp-Pitch Shift, Trim
- easily accepts ReWire output stream directly from applications like Ableton Live for further mixing and processing
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Efficiency and Ease-of-Use
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logical, streamlined menu navigation (view)
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Tool Tips provide "rollover" descriptions of interface objects
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easy dragging and dropping of audio, MIDI, REX, and ACID files from the desktop to the timeline
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drag multiple regions onto a single track simultaneously
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quickly applying track-level commands globally across multiple tracks simultaneously
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fast Region List searches including history
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Duplicate Tracks dialog streamlines defining how many tracks, and which track parameters, to duplicate
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built-in
DigiBase file management tool organizes audio and MIDI files according
to attributes such as tempo; includes importing of Red Book audio CDs
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up to 999 Markers/Memory Locations
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multi-lingual support in user interface
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* Pro Tools M-Powered software requires a supported M-Audio hardware interface to function.
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***
the Music Production Toolkit expands Pro Tools M-Powered to up to 48
tracks, and adds more effects and instruments, multi-track version Beat
Detective and the Pro Tools MP3 Option. |
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