January 25, 2018

This communication includes the following seven (7) announcements made at NAMM 2018 today:

  • Pro Tools 2018 Now Available!
  • Avid ArtistCentral Brings the Power of Avid’s Creative Ecosystem to Individual Artists
  • Avid Delivers Unrivaled Integration with Waves SoundGrid Plug-ins for VENUE | S6L
  • Avid Accelerates Pro Tools | S6 Mixing Workflows with New EUCON Software
  • Avid Supercharges Music Notation with Sibelius 2018
  • Sibelius Premium Cloud Storage Plans Now Available
  • Avid Begins #WeR4Music Movement at NAMM 2018

Please contact Big Bear Sound regarding any Pro Tools software upgrades. We can help applying any Pro Tools update renewal or reinstatement plan to your Avid account at no additional cost. Just call Odhrán at 01-410-0212 or email odhran@bigbearsound.com.

Pro Tools 2018 Now Available!

Avid is happy to announce the long-anticipated release of Pro Tools 2018. In continuing the momentum of our last Pro Tools release, just over 3 months ago, Pro Tools 2018 focuses on helping music creators staying in a creative mindset, and finish projects with speed and efficiency.

In addition to being one of the first products released under Avid’s under the new versioning scheme, Pro Tools 2018 includes major improvements and new features for Pro Tools | First, Pro Tools, and Pro Tools | HD, and is now available to new customers, current subscribers, and users with an active upgrade plan.

Create at the Speed of Inspiration

From numerous new MIDI editing enhancements and retrospective MIDI recording, to the ability to save your favorite effects chains and instrument sounds as track presets, Pro Tools 2018 enables you to keep your creativity flowing.

New Features

  • Build Sessions on the Fly with Track Presets
  • Capture Performances Retroactively
  • Take Deeper Control of Your MIDI
  • Comp Together the Best Takes
  • Retire Your iLok Key
  • Get a Better View of Your Mix
  • Start Collaborating More Easily
  • Get Easy Network Licensing

Product Description

Pro Tools provides everything you need to compose, record, edit, and mix audio. And now you can create at the speed of your imagination with new MIDI enhancements and timesaving tools. Whether you subscribe or own the software outright, working with music and sound has never been so easy or fun.

Pro Tools Software Family Products

  • Pro Tools | First—Entry-level “free” version of Pro Tools that offers a limited basic set of features for those new to music and audio recording and mixing
  • Pro Tools—The industry-standard digital audio workstation; available as standalone software (subscribe monthly or annually, or purchase and own a perpetual license) or bundled as a subscription with Pro Tools | Eleven Rack
  • Pro Tools | HD—The industry-standard DAW with advanced features and workflows for more demanding commercial music and audio post production; available as standalone software (subscribe annually or purchase and own a perpetual license) or bundled as a perpetual license with Pro Tools | HDX and Pro Tools | HD Native systems

Pro Tools 2018 is the latest version release, which was announced at NAMM 2018 and includes a host of new features that improve the music creation experience in Pro Tools and help users work smarter and faster.

Pro Tools 2018 Datasheet (PDF)

If you have any questions on the release Pro Tools 2018, please contact Odhrán at 01-410-0212 or email odhran@bigbearsound.com.

 

Avid ArtistCentral Brings the Power of Avid’s Creative Ecosystem to Individual Artists

Today, Avid announced Avid ArtistCentral, a new way of accessing the benefits of the collaborative MediaCentral ecosystem through a convenient multi-tabbed desktop application.

Avid is showcasing a tech preview of Avid ArtistCentral, which will soon replace the current Application Manager. This new application, designed for individual artists, provides a more efficient way to connect and communicate with other Avid users, manage products, and make purchases from the Avid Marketplace—all in one interface.

  • Extend your Creative Reach
  • Maximize Your Avid Experience
  • Expand Your Creative Opportunities
  • Manage Everything in One Place

Features/Benefits

  • Connect and Chat with Others
  • Shop ’til You Drop
  • Sign in and Get Info Fast
  • Manage Products with Ease
  • Promote Yourself
  • Stay in the Loop
  • Redeem Retail Purchases

 

Avid Delivers Unrivaled Integration with Waves SoundGrid Plug-ins for VENUE | S6L

Also today, we announced the new Waves SoundGrid High Density (WSG-HD) Option Card and Avid VENUE™ software update for our award-winning Avid VENUE | S6L live sound system that deliver unmatched hardware and software integration with Waves SoundGrid systems. S6L provides seamless Avid Pro Tools integration and on-board industry-standard AAX plug-ins, and engineers can now mix with the same Waves sound processors used on the artist’s studio recordings to re-create their signature studio sound live.

The collaboration between Avid and Waves Audio provides live sound engineers with extensive tactile and software control of plug-in parameters, a vastly simplified setup, system redundancy, and much greater creative flexibility.

Availability

The new Avid VENUE software update will be available free to Avid VENUE | S6L customers with an active support contract in Spring 2018. The new WSG-HD Waves SoundGrid Option Card is available from Avid resellers.

Avid Accelerates Pro Tools | S6 Mixing Workflows with New EUCON Software

Avid is happy to announce the new EUCON™ software update for Pro Tools | S6. Debuting at the 2018 NAMM Show today, this update enables customers to use Pro Tools® | Control—Avid’s free iOS iPad app—in conjunction with the Pro Tools | S6 control surface to remotely control Pro Tools and other digital audio workstations (DAWs) giving them the flexibility to be anywhere in the studio during a mixing session. This EUCON software release also enables users to operate S6 Soft Keys to control multiple DAWs simultaneously, accelerating mixing workflows for film and TV post production.

Availability

EUCON will be available in February 2018 as a free update to all customers with Pro Tools | S6, Pro Tools | S3, Pro Tools | Dock, and Artist Mix control surfaces on valid support contracts. For more information, visit: http://www.avid.com/products/pro-tools-s6/features.

 

Avid Supercharges Music Notation with Sibelius 2018

Avid announced a new Sibelius software update introducing a host of new features and multi-edit workflows to revolutionize the way musicians mark up their scores.

  • Add slurs, hairpins and other lines across multiple staves, and even across several voices too, saving an enormous about of time.
  • Adding ties between notes in chords that only have a few notes in common is now supported.
  • Multiple barlines can be changed to different types in one go. You can also add system and page breaks to more than one barline at a time too.
  • Adding Repeat barlines is now done in one step.
  • Extending note duration while editing notes now doesn’t erase the next note, saving valuable time re-entering the note that was deleted previously.
  • ‘Find in Ribbon’ has been improved with better layout of search results, and the ability to execute any feature in Sibelius immediately

Introducing Sibelius Users to the Avid Artist Community

Taking advantage of the Sibelius | Cloud Sharing technology inside Sibelius and on the Avid Media Central Platform, Sibelius users can now create a profile on the Avid Artist Community and post and showcase their scores publicly for the world to see. Whether they are a composer, arranger, teacher or engraver, everyone is welcome to display their sheet music. The scores are interactive so play back right in the web browser. These scores are linked back to the customer’s own Sibelius | Cloud Sharing account so changes can be pushed from Sibelius and appear immediately on the Artist Community.

There are many other improvements to Sibelius in the 2018 release. For more information about this and the Artist Community, check out these in-depth blog articles:

Sibelius Premium Cloud Storage Plans Now Available

Avid introduced Sibelius Cloud Storage Plans to give users more flexible storage capabilities, enabling them to easily expand cloud storage for sharing more scores. We also expanded the Avid Artist Community with Sibelius | Cloud Sharing, which allows composers to share their scores with anyone, anywhere, on any device.

 

Avid Begins #WeR4Music Movement Today at NAMM 2018

Amid more than 100,000 music industry participants at the 2018 NAMM Show, Avid today began the #WeR4Music movement to call attention to the unintended consequences digitization is causing across the entire creative ecosystem of the music industry. The digital era is causing challenges for many songwriters, performers, producers, engineers, promoters, labels, publishers and distributors alike—too often impeding proper recognition and reward for artists’ and creative professionals’ work.

Avid strongly believes that everybody who creates or enjoys music can lift their voice and help foster and encourage fair and equitable solutions for every participant in the ecosystem to ensure that music creation continues to flourish and that the industry prospers overall. The impact and importance of music is undeniable, and it must be protected and enabled to flourish into the future.

While digital technologies have improved many parts of daily life, digital has disrupted many industries, especially the music industry. Nobody in the industry can ignore the challenges of the digital era, but none so much as the many artists and creative professionals who are struggling harder and harder to make a decent living pursuing their craft, or getting their work seen or heard. The music industry’s economy needs to profit from top to bottom, ensuring every participant can realize their creative vision or economic goal.

 

Please contact Big Bear Sound regarding any Pro Tools software upgrades. We can help applying any Pro Tools update renewal or reinstatement plan to your Avid account at no additional cost. Just call Odhrán at 01-410-0212 or email odhran@bigbearsound.com.

 


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