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If you're newer to audio editing, then it's something to work towards. The point is, this gives you the most concise audio controls out there for the very best final product. It's not the cheapest nor the easiest DAW to use, but that's not the point.

ACOUSTICA STANDARD EDITION 6 REVIEW PRO

If you're a professional audio editor, be it for music, movies or broadcast, then Avid Pro Tools is the most comprehensive and powerful option for you.

With offline bouncing, track freeze and commit features, this really can do anything you'll need. Even without this you can grab and automate any parameter anywhere across all the tracks. While the Mix window is a great place to work, digitally, it pays to have physical controls like the control surfaces Avid offers. Boom is a drum machine, Mini Grand is a grand piano, DB-33 is a tonewheel organ, and there's more like Structure Free to play back sample based instruments and Vacuum, a monophonic vacuum tube style synthesizer – to name just a few.

The 2.6GB collection of virtual instruments and synthesizer samples is a great addition and there are more expansions if you need them too. The program cleverly now captures performances even if you're not recording, allowing you to capture everything even if you've forgotten to hit record – which could be very, very frustrating. So this means each core won't put stain on processing until audio is actually passing through. The low-latency input buffer combined with 64-bit architecture make for an ability to allocate host processing resources right across the board of dozens of plug-ins.

In the edit window it's easy to sample-level edit, loop record, compile tracks, apply crossfades and use the Smart Tool cursor for quick controls. Avid Pro Tools: Performanceĭespite being a complex beast, Avid Pro Tools has a nice simple two section overarching layout with Edit and Mix to pick from. No need for a Gain plug-in.īeat Detective is also a great feature, picking up grooves in audio tracks so you can fix timing issues right across multiple instruments.

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It's worth keeping in mind that for all versions of Avid Pro Tools you'll need at least 16GB of RAM to run the work and Windows 10 on PC or macOS Sierra or newer on Apple devices.Ĭlip Gain is a standout feature worth a mention as it allows you to adjust volumes using a pop-up volume slider. On top of that this is 1,024 MIDI tracks, 512 instrument tracks, 128 auxiliary track, a video track and unlimited busses. The Native version of Pro Tools, tested here, offers 128 simultaneous stereo tracks at 48kHz, 64 tracks at 96kHz or 32 tracks at 192kHz, with up to 32 tracks which can be recorded simultaneously. Pro Tools is now even a part of the Netflix Post Technology Alliance, making this a very capable video audio editing system. There is also Dolby Atmos Bridge support meaning up to 130 channels of audio that will work for Dolby Atmos audio. More recent feature updates, on top of all the usual layout, mixing and editing tools you'd expect, include the addition of 4K and 120 fps support for video.

As such you can expect this features list to continue to grow after you've bought the software.

ACOUSTICA STANDARD EDITION 6 REVIEW UPDATE

It's worth noting that Avid has done away with the one big update per year system and now releases updates when new features are ready to roll-out.

Acoustica standard edition 6 review