Digidesign offered a preview of Pro Tools 8, the next evolution of its professional music creation and audio production software at last weekend's Audio Engineering Society conference.
The software offers an all new user interface, over 70 plug-ins and virtual instruments, fully-integrated MIDI and score editors, and an expanded array of editing features.
The user interface has been given a more modern colour palette, as well as higher-contrast text and graphics. This redesigned user interface frames a dramatically expanded set of creative tools and a host of features for music creators, editors, mixers, and post production professionals. All the key Pro Tools functions that users rely on are still right where they should be, but enhancements, such as dockable Editor windows and a configurable Edit window toolbar, make it easier to navigate than ever before “Pro Tools 8 benefits from thevaluable feedback we received from our dedicated Pro Tools creative community,along withAvid’s passionfor creating great audio and video tools that move technology forward,” explains Dave Lebolt, Avid senior vice president and chief technology officer.
New music creation features include:
- Fully integrated, dockable MIDI and Score Editor windows for greatly enhanced MIDI editing functionality and professional score editing and printing - A sizable collection of music creation and sound-processing plug-ins, including 20 all-new AIR effects and five new virtual instruments—Mini Grand piano, Boom drum machine, DB-33 tonewheel organ, Vacuum tube-modeled synthesizer, and Xpand!2 sample player - High-quality amplifiers simulation thanks to Digidesign’s acclaimed new guitar amp emulator Eleven Free as well as Tech21 SansAmp amplifier emulator by Bomb Factory - A large bundle of high-quality loops
Digidesign has also expanded the number of simultaneous audio tracks to 48. If you add the Music Production Toolkit 2 or DV Toolkit 2 (Pro Tools LE only), you can get up to 64 audio tracks.
Pro Tools 8 is expected to be available in late 2008 and will support Mac OS X Leopard.
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