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Take on the biggest, most complex productions with Avid Pro Tools Ultimate—a top-tier offering for audio post and music professionals who require the full track and I/O counts, Pro Tools | HDX workflows, guaranteed performance, and advanced features that Pro Tools has to offer. Pro Tools Ultimate provides the complete toolset, plus a massive collection of plugins, sounds and software to maximize your creative possibilities. Create and mix the largest, most complex productions with ease—including Dolby Atmos and Ambisonics.
With Avid Pro Tools Ultimate, you get everything you need to record, design, edit, and mix sound for picture in the highest quality with the proven tools and workflows professionals rely on to deliver their best work. Cut and mix sound to picture with great precision, speed, and ease thanks to advanced automation and editing tools, plus easy studio sync to tackle the most demanding productions. Capture and play with ideas anywhere that inspiration strikes with Pro Tools Sketch, a new non-linear, clip-based creation window in Pro Tools, also available as a free iPad app.

Track and mix the largest music productions with ease when using Pro Tools | HDX and audio interfaces for recording pristine-quality sound with near-zero latency. Achieve the best mixes possible with super-accurate automation of everything from track volumes and panning to plugin settings and sends. Accelerate Dolby Atmos mixing with the proven streamlined workflows professionals rely on to mix almost every commercial movie and TV production on the planet. Power your entire facility with tightly integrated systems and surfaces with DSP acceleration for guaranteed performance, near-zero latency, and unmatched hands-on control.

Pro Tools is the most flexible audio production software for making music, movies, and TV shows, providing a complete set of tools to create, record, edit, and mix audio. Get inspired and start creating music with a massive collection of plugins, instruments, and sounds. Tackle your most ambitious visions with advanced features that power you through the most demanding projects. Deliver mixes faster, at the highest sound quality, with hands-on control surfaces and integrated audio interfaces.


Included Software and Rewards
Pro Tools Artist
Celemony Melodyne 5 essential
SoundFlow Cloud Avid Edition*
Pro Tools | Inner Circle rewards*
Pro Tools | Sonic Drop content**
* Included with annual subscriptions and Software Updates + Support Plans for Pro Tools Studio and Pro Tools Ultimate perpetual licenses only
** Included with monthly and annual Pro Tools subscriptions and Software Updates + Support Plans for perpetual licenses

Included Plugins
Dynamics and EQ

304C Compressor
304E Equalizer
BF-2A
BF-3A
BF-76
Channel Strip
Dynamics III Compressor/Limiter
Dynamics III De-Esser
Dynamics III Expander/Gate
EQ III 1-Band
EQ III 7-Band
Fairchild 660
Fairchild 670
Focusrite d2
Focusrite d3
Graphic EQ
Impact
Maxim
Pro Compressor
Pro Expander
Pro Limiter
Pro Multiband Dynamics
Pultec EQH-2
Pultec EQP-1A
Pultec MEQ-5
Purple Audio MC-77
Smack!
Effects, Filters, and Emulators
AIR Chorus
AIR Distortion
AIR Enhancer
AIR Ensemble
AIR Filter Gate
AIR Flanger
AIR Frequency Shifter
AIR Fuzz-Wah
AIR Kill EQ
AIR Lo-Fi
AIR MultiChorus
AIR Phaser
AIR Stereo Width
AIR Talkbox
AIR Vintage Filter
D-Fi Lo-Fi
D-Fi Recti-Fi
D-Fi Sci-Fi
D-Fi Vari-Fi (AudioSuite only)
Eleven Lite
Eleven MK II
HEAT
Moogerfooger 12-Stage Phaser
Moogerfooger Analog Delay
Moogerfooger Lowpass Filter
Moogerfooger Ring Modulator
Pro Subharmonic
Reel Tape Flanger
Reel Tape Saturation
SansAmp PSA-1
Sound Replacer
Voce Chorus/Vibrato
Voce Spin
Reverbs and Delays
AIR Dynamic Delay
AIR Multi-Delay
AIR Nonlinear Reverb
AIR Reverb
AIR Spring Reverb
D-Verb
Mod Delay III
Reel Tape Delay
Reverb One
ReVibe II
Space
Studio Reverb
Tape Echo
Tel-Ray Variable Delay
Stompbox Effects
BBD Delay
Black Op Distortion
Black Shiny Wah
Black Spring
C1 Chorus/Vibrato
DC Distortion
Flanger
Gray Compressor
Green JRC Overdrive
Orange Phaser
Roto Speaker
Tri-Knob Fuzz
Vibe Phaser
White Boost
Virtual Instruments and Loops
AIR Boom
AIR DB-33
AIR Mini Grand
AIR Structure Free
AIR Vacuum
AIR Xpand!2
Avid Loopmasters Sample Pack
Pro Tools | GrooveCell
Pro Tools | SynthCell
Pro Tools | PlayCell
Audio Tools
Click II
DC Offset Removal (AudioSuite only)
Dither
Down Mixer
Duplicate (AudioSuite only)
Gain (AudioSuite only)
InTune
Invert (AudioSuite only)
MasterMeter
Normalize (AudioSuite only)
Pitch II
Pitch Shift (AudioSuite only)
POW-r Dither
Reverse (AudioSuite only)
ReWire
Signal Generator
Time Adjuster
Time Compression/Expansion (AudioSuite only)
Time Shift (AudioSuite only)
Trim
X-Form

Minimum System Requirements
macOS:
- macOS Catalina 10.15.7 - Ventura 13.4
- M2, M1 or Intel Dual Core i5 or faster
For more information on supported computer models and operating systems, please click here.
* Mojave is no longer tested, but is expected to work

Windows:
- Windows 10, 11 (22H2)
- 64-bit Intel Core Processor (i3 2GHz or faster recommended)
For more information on supported computer models and operating systems, please click here.

All Computer Systems:
- 8GB RAM
- Internet connection (needed for installation, activation)
- 15GB of free space for installation
- One or more hard disk drives dedicated for audio record and playback, formatted HFS+ Journaled for Mac or NTFS for Windows. For more information, see this article.
- PCIe slot for HDX or HD Native card (incl. one power connection on motherboard)
- USB or Thunderbolt port for supported PCIe-chassis or HD Native Thunderbolt or other CoreAudio/ASIO supported audio device.
- iLok account/access (iLok 2, iLok 3 (USB A or USB C), or iLok Cloud

Avid Pro Tools Ultimate Perpetual License (Boxed)

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  • A common language across audio: tried and proven by professionals and hobbyists
  • alike for music, movies, and TV production
  • Keep pace with any creative process: a customizable, end-to-end environment for
  • every stage of creation, from non-linear clip launching to world-class editing and
  • mixing workflows
  • The DAW that keeps on giving: beyond the massive collection of included plugins and
  • sounds, your Pro Tools subscription also delivers quarterly feature updates, free new
  • plugins and sounds every month, and music distribution
  • Unrivaled creative freedom: quickly capture flawless performances and then shape,
  • chop, cut, and tweak your audio and MIDI the way you want
  • Integrated hardware and software: interfaces and control surfaces at every price
  • point offer the highest quality recording and monitoring, near-zero latency
  • performance, and unmatched hands-on control

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  • Audio tracks: 2,048
  • Instrument tracks: 512
  • MIDI tracks: 1,024
  • AUX tracks/routing folders: 1,024/1,024
  • VCA tracks: 128
  • Master tracks: 64
  • Video tracks: 64
  • Simultaneous recording inputs: 256
  • Pro Tools systems and interface support: Pro Tools | Carbon, Pro Tools | HDX and HD Native + interfaces, VENUE | S6L
  • Third-party hardware support: Any Core Audio or ASIO-compatible interface
  • Multichannel mixing: Stereo, surround, Dolby Atmos, Ambisonics
  • Advanced automation: Yes
  • Advanced audio post toolset: Yes
  • Support: ExpertPlus

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