Avid Pro Tools | Ultimate (Perpetual License)

Get the Sound Backed by an Industry

Welcome to Pro Tools | Ultimate

Pro Tools redefined the music, film, and TV industry, providing everything you need to compose, record, edit, and mix audio—in the studio or in the cloud, from anywhere. Whether you choose Pro Tools | Ultimate (formerly Pro Tools | HD), Pro Tools, or Pro Tools | First, working with music and sound has never been so fast, easy, or fun.

Create at the speed of inspiration

From numerous new MIDI editing enhancements and retrospective MIDI recording, to the ability to save your favourite effects chains and instrument sounds as track presets, Pro Tools | HD enables you to keep your creativity flowing. That’s why top artists, producers, and engineers choose Pro Tools for everything they do. Because when you need to sound your best, nothing delivers like Pro Tools can.

Work smarter and faster

When deadlines are looming, Pro Tools offers timesaving tools to streamline your creative workflow. Whether you’re making music or producing soundtracks for picture—on your own or collaboratively with others in the cloud or in the studio—Pro Tools maximises your efficiency, so you can stay inspired and focused to deliver your best work possible.

Create massive mixes

Pro Tools | Ultimate (formerly Pro Tools | HD) comes with everything you need to take on more demanding music and immersive audio productions. With advanced recording, editing, and automation tools and full surround sound support, you can create large-scale mixes with up to 256 simultaneous audio tracks using just the software—or up to 768 tracks with Pro Tools | HDX.

Mix and automate multichannel audio

From mono and stereo sound, to 5.1, 7.1, and immersive audio, Pro Tools | Ultimate provides the most efficient workflows and advanced automation to handle the largest music, soundtrack, Dolby Atmos, and Ambisonics productions. Plus, VCA Masters, Track Freeze, and a built-in surround panner accelerate the mixing process. You can even explore alternative versions of a mix with Project Revisions.

Edit Audio With Ease

Pro Tools | Ultimate offers advanced editing tools, so you can reshape sounds, fix what’s funky, and edit tracks with ultimate flexibility and precision. Quickly trim clips, replace regions, create automatic fades, and batch process fades and clip names. Change tempo or timing on the fly with Elastic Time. You can even make bad notes sound pitch perfect with Elastic Pitch.

Collaborate in the cloud

Easily share tracks and work on projects with anyone—anywhere. As if you’re all together in the same studio. And now Avid Cloud Collaboration for Pro Tools is better than ever, enabling you to work with up to 10 collaborators and save projects locally. Create, connect, and collaborate with talent around the world.

Mix in Dolby Atmos

Dolby Atmos is the hottest thing in cinema and home theatre, delivering bigger, more immersive audio experiences to viewers. Pro Tools | Ultimate offers the most efficient Dolby Atmos mixing workflows in the industry—with support for Atmos 7.1.2 audio stems, native object panning, advanced automation, ADM BWAV support, and deep Avid control surface integration.

Apply real-time effects to clips

Tweak the sound of a clip without affecting the entire track. With Clip Effects, you can apply real-time EQ and dynamics to a single clip or clip group on your timeline, enabling you to have different settings across multiple clips on a track. This gives you more precision control when working with multiple clips of related audio, such as dialog or voiceovers.

Edit and mix VR audio

Produce immersive full-sphere surround sound mixes for virtual reality content—from start to finish—right in Pro Tools | Ultimate. 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.

Record ADR & Foley

With support for 64 tracks of video, Pro Tools makes it easy to record and sync voiceovers and dialog replacement to picture with perfect frame accuracy. Foley artists can watch a scene unfold as they re-create a sound effect to ensure they nail the nuances and timing. For Pro Tools | HDX users, you can expedite audio re-recording “in the box” with perfect click-free punch-ins using any punch mode.

Go Pro

How can you make your mixes stand out? Use the same secret weapons studio pros rely on. Pro Tools | Ultimate comes packed with over 60 professional-quality virtual instruments, effects, and sound processing plug-ins, so you can create the best sounding mixes possible. Plus, get access to 25 additional bonus plug-ins—including the Pro Series—and breathe new life into your projects.

Stay current, stay ahead

We strive to make Pro Tools | Ultimate the best creative tool you could ever want. That's why we offer a steady stream of new features and improvements released throughout the year, plus priority support, to all Pro Tools users with an Avid upgrade and support plan, included with all new system and perpetual license purchases, upgrades, and subscriptions.

Minimum System Requirements:

Mac:

• Intel® Mac with macOS 10.13.6, 10.14.6, 10.15.3 or 10.15.5 (please find version specific qualifications in the macOS Compatibility Grid; confirm that your other software is compatible with macOS Catalina before upgrading--see this article for more information)
• Pro Tools - Intel® Core i5 processor
• Pro Tools | Ultimate - Intel® Core i5 (specific models only) or Intel® Core i7 processor 
• 16GB RAM (32GB or more recommended)
• Internet connection for installation
• 15GB disk space for installation
• PCIe slot for HDX or HD Native card (incl. one power connection on motherboard), Thunderbolt port for supported PCIe-chassis or HD Native Thunderbolt
• USB port, FireWire port or Thunderbolt port for CoreAudio-supported audio device
• Pro Tools | Ultimate requires a Pro Tools DigiLink I/O license to access HD hardware. For more information see this article

Windows:

• Intel® PC Windows 10 Home, Pro, and Enterprise 64-bit Editions (please find version specific qualifications in the Windows OS Compatibility Grid)
• Windows 10 for Workstations supported on Intel® Xeon processor-equipped machines
• Pro Tools - Intel® Core i5 processor
• Pro Tools | Ultimate - Intel® Core i9 or Intel® Xeon processor 
• 16GB RAM (32GB or more recommended)
• Internet connection for installation
• 15GB disk space for installation
• PCIe slot for HDX or HD Native card (incl. one power connection on motherboard)
• USB-port, FireWire-port for ASIO-supported audio device
• Compatible NVIDIA graphics card (see machine-specific Slot Order & Configuration pages linked below for tested NVIDIA card models)
• Pro Tools | Ultimate requires a Pro Tools DigiLink I/O license to access HD hardware. For more information see this article

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