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Previously known as Pro Tools M-Powered, Avid have rebranded this special version of Pro Tools specifically designed for M Audio interfaces as simply Pro Tools MP 9.
For a basic DAW, Pro Tools MP 9 is incredibly fully featured! It includes facilities to record, edit, sequence and even score your music and work with video, and when you're done with your demo - you can take the session to a professional studio where it will integrate perfectly with a full-blown Pro Tools system.
Pro Tools MP 9 is a great way to get into recording and learn the basics of recording software with few limitations. With plenty of effects and virtual instruments at your disposal, Pro Tools MP 9 is a music making tool that wouldn't have been out of place in a professional studio a couple of years ago. It's amazing how far Pro Tools has come, so jump aboard now and start making music with Pro Tools MP9!
Here's what Avid say about Pro Tools MP 9
Professional music creation has never been more accessible. Designed for use with select M-Audio recording interfaces, Pro Tools MP 9-the latest version of Pro Tools M-Powered software-improves upon the industry-leading features that made it the top choice for music and audio production. Enjoy 48-track mono or stereo audio recording, editing, and mixing with up to 24-bit/96 kHz fidelity. Shape sounds and add effects with over 70 included plug-ins. Easily compose music with full MIDI and score notation tools. Get great-sounding, phase-accurate mixes with Automatic Delay Compensation. And collaborate with other Pro Tools users in studios around the world. Pro Tools MP software puts all this power-and much more-at your fingertips.
Advanced Music Creation-Within Reach
Pro Tools is the world's most popular, most advanced music and audio production platform. Now Pro Tools MP 9 software gives you the power to work with many of the same features that make Pro Tools the top choice of today's audio professionals. Create amazing music, collaborate with other Pro Tools users, transfer projects between professional and personal studios, and more. The possibilities are endless when you're part of the largest community of digital audio workstation users on earth.
More Options, More Flexibility
A wide variety of M-Audio hardware peripherals are compatible with Pro Tools MP software, giving you more options in where, when, and how you work. Whether you need just a little I/O or a lot-or a desktop, mobile, or hybrid system-you'll find the perfect solution with our PCI, USB/USB 2, and FireWire audio interfaces. To get the best of the hardware and software worlds at an exceptional value, check out one of our complete Pro Tools MP studio bundles.
Features
- Supports a wide choice of M-Audio interfaces* including Delta PCI, USB/USB 2.0 and FireWire products
- Supports M-Audio ProjectMix I/O and Command|8 control surfaces for hands-on mixing
- Industry-standard session compatibility with countless Pro Tools-equipped project and professional studios around the world
- Award-winning Pro Tools recording and mixing environment
- 48-track mono or stereo audio recording, editing, and mixing up to 24-bit/96 kHz
- Real-time audio processing
- Import MIDI, REX, ACID, WAV, SDII, AIFF, AAC, and MP3 audio files
- Avid-qualified Windows- or Mac OS X-based computers (click here for the most current system requirements, compatibility information, and online support)
- Unique Beat Detective LE automatic groove analysis and correction tool
- Supports QuickTime video including H.264
- New MP3 export capability and Automatic Delay Compensation
Recording
- Powerful loop recording options
- Elastic Pitch allows manipulation (+/- 4 octaves) or pitch correction of any audio region in real time without affecting time or tempo
- Elastic Time real-time tempo manipulation feature lets you change the tempo or timing of audio tracks on the fly without affecting pitch
- Loop playback automatically updates to the selection without manually stopping and starting the transport
- Loop Trim tool allows you to easily turn audio or MIDI regions into loops
- Dynamic Transport mode allows playback to operate independently of the current selection
- Real-time MIDI processing enables control of MIDI quantization, note duration and velocity, transposition, and timing as you record
- QuickPunch functionality
Advanced MIDI
- 256 tracks of powerful, intuitive MIDI sequencing
- MIDI Editor windows can display MIDI and automation data for Instrument, MIDI, and Auxiliary Input tracks
- Instrument Tracks combine MIDI and audio capabilities in a single channel strip, simplifying routing for virtual instruments and MIDI sound modules
- Sample-based MIDI tracks lock MIDI events to time code regardless of session tempo changes
- Zoom Toggle switches quickly between two different user-defined settings in the Edit window
- Mirrored MIDI editing mode allows adjustments made to one MIDI file to affect all existing copies of that region
Editing
- Completely non-destructive editing with world-class tools
- Add new tracks; reorder tracks; create, move, or copy inserts and sends; and adjust I/O routing on the fly without manually stopping and starting the transport
- Track compositing features allow for quickly and easily piecing together the best possible version of a performance from multiple recording passes
- Lock regions to the timeline to prevent them from being inadvertently moved or edited
- Use the Automation and Controller lanes to view and edit track automation and MIDI CC data without changing track views
- Time Shift DigiRack plug-in delivers superior time compression/expansion
- Region Groups allow grouping of any combination of audio and MIDI regions, across any number of tracks
- Region Looping offers an easy way to repeat one or more regions and Region Groups
- Separate on Grid and Separate at Transient functions allow editing of multitrack audio regions simultaneously, based on a grid value or transients in an audio file
- Quantize audio regions according to a grid or groove template
- "Reverse" Strip Silence functionality allows for extracting louder portions of audio tracks
Mixing
- New Automatic Delay Compensation functionality makes it easy to get great-sounding, phase-accurate mixes
- Host processing efficiency allows you to run many select RTAS effects and instrument plug-ins simultaneously
- Up to 32 internal mix busses and up to 10 sends and inserts per track increases mixing flexibility and allows larger, more complex mixing architectures
- Copy or move send assignments across tracks via drag-and-drop functionality
- Free Dynamics III DigiRack plug-in allows easy and powerful control of mix dynamics
- EQ III includes a filter band-pass solo mode, making it easy to isolate and remove unwanted signals or noise in an audio track
- Advanced automation features and editing including real-time display
- Automate All command allows arming automation of all plug-in parameters at once
Effects and Virtual Instruments
- Wide range of compatible creative software options available from Avid and Avid Development Partners including:
- Both real-time RTAS effects plug-in processing and file-based AudioSuite effects plug-in processing
- Advanced virtual instrument integration including 6 free Avid virtual instruments:
- Boom drum machine and sequencer
- DB-33 tonewheel organ emulator with rotating speaker simulation
- Mini Grand acoustic grand piano
- Vacuum monophonic vacuum tube synthesizer
- Xpand!2 multitimbral synth and sample workstation with over 1000 presets
- Structure Free sample player with over 600 MB of high-quality samples
- FXpansion BFD Lite acoustic drum module
- Ships with 70 pro effects and utility plug-ins, including EQ, dynamics, delays, reverb, and more (See complete list)
- Incredible guitar amp tone with Eleven Free and SansAmp plug-ins
- 8 GB of pro-quality loops
- Map plug-in parameter controls to almost any encoder on a controller, and access each track's 10 inserts
- Easily communicates via ReWire with applications like Torq for further creative possibilities
Score Editor
- Based on the Sibelius notation engine
- View, edit, arrange, and print MIDI data as music notation
- Compose music using the notation tools, or transcribe recorded, imported, drawn (with the Pencil tool), or step-entered MIDI data into notation
- Write parts on a single staff-treble, bass, alto, or tenor clef-or grand staff
- Place and edit notes, and edit the meter and key signature at whim
- Add chord symbols such as Dm7 and guitar chord diagrams to sessions
- Transcribe MIDI parts in real time
- Print out a score in its entirety or print only certain instrumental parts
- Export sessions as Sibelius (.sib) files for further finessing in Sibelius
Efficiency and Ease of Use
- Elegant user interface minimizes eye strain
- Customizable toolbar shows only desired tools in any arrangement
- Tiled or cascaded window arrangement
- Logical, streamlined menu navigation
- Change the color of channel strips, tracks, regions, groups, and markers to any hue
- Navigate through sessions quickly using the Universe view
- QuickStart dialog allows for quickly, easily creating new sessions from templates, from scratch, or open existing sessions
- Right-click contextual menus offer fast access to common parameters
- Tool Tips provide "rollover" descriptions of interface objects
- Easy dragging and dropping of audio, MIDI, REX, and ACID files from the desktop to the timeline
- Drag multiple regions onto a single track simultaneously
- Quickly apply track-level commands globally across multiple tracks simultaneously
- Up to 99 Window Configurations (screen sets) to instantly recall custom view arrangements
- Customizable Zoom Toggle lets you define track view and height when zooming continuously
- Variable track height allows tracks to be instantly resized to any height
- Fast Region List searches including history
- Duplicate Tracks dialog streamlines defining how many tracks, and which track parameters, to duplicate
- Built-in DigiBase file management tool organizes and auditions audio and MIDI files and loops according to attributes such as tempo; includes importing of Red Book audio CDs
- Up to 999 Markers/Memory Locations
- Accepts MIDI directly from ReWire applications for recording controller data to a Pro Tools MIDI or Instrument track
- Unicode character support lets you label and edit text anywhere in Pro Tools in any language supported by Unicode (including Japanese, French, Greek, Russian, and Hebrew)
System Requirements
- Avid-qualified Intel-based Mac running Mac OS X 10.6.2 or higher (32- or 64-bit), or PC running Windows 7 Home Premium, Professional, or Ultimate (32- or 64-bit)
- 2 GB RAM (4 GB or more recommended)
- 15 GB free hard disk space
- Available USB port for iLok USB Smart Key connection (not included with upgrade or download versions)
- Supported M-Audio hardware interface (Mac | Windows | Bundles)
