Pro Tools 8 Software

Pro Tools® 8 is the most advanced audio creation and production software, featuring a gorgeous new interface, dozens of new virtual instruments and plug-ins, exciting new scoring and MIDI features, amazing new workflows, better ease of use, deeper controller integration, and much, much more. You’ll never work with sound the same way again.


Stunning New Look
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.

Stretch Your Sound with Elastic Time
Whether you’re a musician, composer, music producer, ADR engineer, or sound editor, Elastic Time makes it 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 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. You can even use REX and Acid loops right in Pro Tools.

To ensure that you get the best results, Elastic Time lets you choose from several high-quality time-stretching algorithms, which deliver the best-sounding processing in the industry, on a per-track basis. Want to hear how a certain audio bit will sound in your song? The new Context Preview lets you easily audition loops and audio files in sync with the tempo of your session. You can also now quantize audio to the session grid or extracted grooves. What’s more, you can fine-tune regions with precision control over each individual beat using the new Warp track view and Warp markers.

             
More Tracks Than Ever in Pro Tools LE
Pro Tools LE® now has 3x (!) more audio tracks

(up to 48 simultaneous stereo or mono tracks) than previously to create larger, more complex mixes.

Score Your Music
The new 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 all-new MIDI Editor window in Pro Tools 8 takes sequencing with Pro Tools to a whole new level, boasting a comprehensive array of new MIDI editing features, tools, and functionality that make it easier than ever to compose with virtual instruments and sound modules.

Stretch Your Pitch
Effortlessly transpose a region to a different key or fix its pitch in real time with the new Elastic Pitch, the perfect complement to Elastic Time.

Comp Tracks to Perfection
Capturing a flawless performance in a single take is often a rarity; with the new track compositing workflows, you can craft the perfect performance from multiple takes faster and easier than ever.
 

The main points of interest with Pro Tools 8.0 include:

* A stunning new interface. Double the inserts per channel, more customization of the interface through color and arrangement options, navigation through the session with the Universe view, and an advanced QuickStart dialog for better session management.

* More instruments and effects. Create music with the new Mini Grand Piano, Boom drum machine, DB-33 tonewheel organ, and Vacuum and Xpand!2 synthesizers. New stock plug-ins include lite versions of Eleven and SansAmp, and new DJ Torq, and 20 new AIR effects. Pro Tools 8.0 also includes another 8 gigs of loops and content.

* There's now a score editor in Pro Tools! A long requested tool for composers, you can now view, edit, arrange, and print your MIDI data as music notation.

* Pro Tools 7.4 brought us Elastic Time, and now 8.0 brings us Elastic Pitch. This allows users to manipulate and change the pitch of any audio region in real time, within the Edit window.
 

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