Pro Tools|Ultimate new subscription (1 year)

Pro Tools|Ultimate – New subscription with one year of updates and support

EMPOWERING INSPIRED ARTISTS

Your talent and artistry know no bounds. Take your sound further with software and hardware that let you focus on what you do best. Meet Pro Tools. For information about the different versions and purchase options, please scroll down.

See what’s new in Pro Tools

Turbocharge HDX Systems with the Hybrid Engine. Discover the latest version of Pro Tools. Work with M1 Macs running macOS Big Sur. Create with more voices, tracks, and I/O. Customize Dark and Classic UI themes. And, if you’re an annual subscriber, fuel your creativity with over $1,500 in plugins, sounds, and training content, FREE with the new Pro Tools Inner Circle program.

MUSIC CREATION

When inspiration strikes, nothing empowers your creativity like Pro Tools. That’s why top artists, musicians, and audio professionals choose it for everything they do.

• Record and Produce
  The ultimate way to record and create – Thousands of instrument sounds. Seamless punch and loop recording. Automated playlist tracking. All in pristine 24-bit/192kHz audio quality. With Pro Tools, you can make music with up to 768 audio and 1,024 MIDI tracks and use hundreds of plugins to create your sound. All you need is your imagination.
• Edit
  Get industry-leading audio editing. Pro Tools is renowned for its powerful editing toolset, enabling you to manipulate and perfect nearly every aspect of your audio and MIDI tracks. From trimming clips and reshaping sounds with a single click, to comping together a flawless performance, you can optimize any track with precision.
• Mix and Master
  Bring your mix to life. From professional-quality plugins and advanced metering, to the best mixing automation in the industry, you have the award-winning sounds and control you need to create and deliver your best mixes. Whether working in stereo, 5.1 surround, or Dolby Atmos, Pro Tools makes the entire experience easy.
• Automate anything
  Automate volumes, pans, plugin settings, and more to create balanced mixes quickly. Isolate instruments. Punch up sounds. Create and alter effects. Add movement. Then, change up dynamics and intensity to bring everything together. It’s the easiest, most creative way to handle big complex mixes, without requiring manual performance.
• Mix creatively and fluidly during playback
  With non-stop production, you can stay in your creative groove. Create and delete tracks, add and change plugins, switch presets, adjust loop points and more as your music plays. Freely experiment with 115 different plugins, including emulations of classic hardware EQs, dynamics, and reverb units, without interruption.
• Freeze tracks to optimize playback
  Mix plugin-heavy sessions with ease. Track Freeze lets you temporarily render all plugin processing on a track with a click of a button to free up CPU power, providing smoother playback for writing and editing automation. It also enables cloud collaborators to hear your mix the way you intend it, without the same plugins. You can then unfreeze tracks to make changes.
• Create infinitely with UVI Falcon 2
  UVI Falcon 2 is an incredible virtual instrument that makes it easy to create real world and out-of-this-world sounds. Included with Pro Tools at no extra charge.
• Fuel Your Creativity with Pro Plugins
  Classic compressors and EQs. Groundbreaking virtual instruments. Legendary stompboxes. Powerful reverbs. The world’s greatest guitar amps, and much more—all at your fingertips. Get access to an entire studio full of gear with the Avid Complete Plugin Bundle, 3 months of Auto-Tune Unlimited, and HEAT now included with all Pro Tools subscriptions.
  ProTools and Pro Tools – 119 plugins.
  Pro Tools|First – 23 plugins.

AVID CLOUD COLLABORATION

• Work with anyone, anywhere
  Imagine being able to collaborate on a project with bandmates, another artist, songwriter, or producer without anyone leaving their house. With Avid Cloud Collaboration, endless creative possibilities and opportunities await. All you need is Pro Tools audio-production software and an Internet connection.
• Inner Circle
  Get access to a curated collection of free plugins, music & sound libraries, training resources, and more by the most innovative partner brands with your annual Pro Tools subscription. Claim over $1,600 in free products now, plus special offers, with more to come throughout the year.

Versions of Pro Tools

• Pro Tools|First – A streamlined toolset for any project. Free.
• Pro Tools – The essentials for native music and post production
• Pro Tools|Ultimate – The ultimate toolset for any music and post production.
  For a detailed comparison

Purchase options

• Perpetual License
  Purchase the program. Comes with one year of support and updates.
• Update and Support Renewal – for Perpetual License
• Subscription – your license is for the length of the subscription, including all upgrades and support
• Crossgrade – lets you get a Pro Tools|Ultimate license with updates and support

System requirements

Mac

• Intel® Mac with macOS 10.14.6, 10.15.7, 11.4
  (please find version specific qualifications in the macOS Compatibility Grid below)
• Pro Tools – M1 (see computer specifications below) or Intel® Core i5 processor
  Pro Tools | Ultimate – M1 (see computer specifications below) or 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
• For more complete information regarding compatibility and specific models of computers and hardware.

Windows

• Intel® PC Windows 10 Home, Pro, and Enterprise 64-bit Editions
  (please find version specific qualifications in the Windows OS Compatibility Grid below)
  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
• For more complete information regarding compatibility and specific models of computers and hardware.

Additional Requirements

• Copy Protection: iLok 2, iLok 3 (USB A or USB C), or iLok Cloud (Note: Original iLok 1 not supported)
• Audio Drive Requirements: One or more hard disk drives dedicated for audio record and playback.
  Audio drives should be formatted HFS+ Journaled for Mac or NTFS for Windows
  When daisy-chaining a Thunderbolt drive and expansion chassis, the drive should be placed at the end of the chain
  For more information on hard drive types & formats, please consult the AVID website
  CAUTION:
  Case sensitive volume formatting is not supported
  macOS FileVault is not supported
• Graphics Card: Dedicated graphics card highly recommended for desktop workstations. See computer listing above for specific recommendations.
• Audio File Type & Session Support:
  Supported: BWF, AIFF, MXF
  SDII conversion to WAV is now supported in Pro Tools 2020.9 for Mac
  SDII audio files and Pro Tools 4.x sessions and lower not supported for playback
  Pro Tools 10.3.6 or higher (Mac) does not support SD2 audio files