The industry-leading audio software. Pro Tools has long been a staple in the professional music world. The award-winning software has been used to create and mix countless classic songs. Pro Tools provides you with 128 audio tracks and up to 512 tracks of instrument/MIDI data. The in-depth yet intuitive interface speeds up your workflow allowing you to create and mix faster. Pro Tools redefined the music and film industry including everything you need to compose record edit and mix audio. The Pro Tools New Support Plan (Student/Teacher) is for customers who own the Student/Teacher perpetual licence. It allows you to gain access to new upgrades for an additional year providing you with a 12-month subscription. The Student/Teacher version is exclusively for academic use providing a discount for students. See below for more details. New Support Plan For Student/Teacher This new support plan subscription is for customers who have purchased the Pro Tools Education Perpetual Licence. It provides you with an additional 12-months of upgrades and support allowing you to keep your students up to date with latest features. The student/teacher version is for academic use only. To qualify for this you must be in a learning institution such as a college school or university. Please note that this version is not a multi-seat version but an educational version is available. Industry-Leading Music Creation Pro Tools is renowned in the professional music world as the industry standard. Countless hit records have been recorded arranged mixed and mastered with Avid Pro Tools. The ergonomic and intuitive interface combined with powerful mixing and processing tools makes Pro Tools a must have for any sound engineer or professional musician. This version of Pro Tools provides you with 128 tracks of audio with up to 32 inputs and the ability to create unlimited projects. You can utilise up to 512 instrument tracks and 512 MIDI tracks allowing you to create complex projects with ease. Work With Artists Using Cloud Collaboration One of the most prominent new features is Cloud Collaboration. This powerful new tool lets you upload projects to your cloud storage space and invite other artists to collaborate or work on the project. This feature lets you work on projects with other musicians in real time providing a ground-breaking new way to collaborate and work with other artists. You can do everything you would in-studio with another artist from sharing audio and MIDI tracks to mix changes automation filters and more. You can also communicate and talk with collaborators through the convenient text chat feature. With this new feature you can now collaborate with any artist in real-time opening up a whole world of possibilities when it comes to making and arranging music. Over 60 AAX Plugins Included Pro Tools comes complete with a wide variety of high-grade AAX plugins. The plugin collection spans from high-definition reverbs and EQS to guitar amp emulators. This provides you with everything you need to shape process mix and master your musical projects. Signing up as a Pro Tools subscriber gives you access to an additional 17 plugins. 64 Bit Architecture and new Avid Audio Engine The all new Avid Audio Engine provides multiple times the processing power of prior editions of Pro Tools. You can add epic numbers of virtual instruments and effects to your music and experience performance like never before. The extra memory gives you more scope to go even bigger and handle huge sessions with ease. Features Provides an additional 12-month subscription to upgrades and support for customers who own the Student/Teacher perpetual licence for Pro Tools Industry-standard Digital Audio Workstation (DAW) software for Mac and PC 64-bit Architecture unlocks serious processing power and massive session handling Powerful audio engine provides superior memory management Faster-than-real-time bounce to disk streamlines your workflow frees up resources and allows you to more easily collaborate with other production environments Unified media engine natively supports multiple HD video formats for easier collaboration with Avid Media Composer and other media-production workflows Workspace Browser makes project navigation extremely fast and incredibly simple Simple keyboard commands let you quickly disable and enable sends and inserts Capture automation while recording audio Utilize up to 128 voiceable tracks at 44.1/48kHz and up to 32 channels of simultaneous I/O Take advantage of over 60 bundled 64-bit plug-in processors effects and virtual instruments Automatic delay compensation (up to 16383 samples) provides tight mixing with minimal phase issues Multitrack Beat Detective and Elastic Audio let you correct timing across all of your tracks Score Editor and MIDI Editor provide comprehensive composing capabilities Mix various audio file types and formats in a single session without format conversion Avid Cloud Collaboration and the Avid Marketplace let you connect and collaborate with other Specifications System Requirements Mac Intel® Mac with Mac OS X 10.8.5 10.9.0 – 10.9.5 10.10.0 – 10.10.5 or 10.11 – 10.11.1 Intel® Core i5 processor 4GB RAM (8GB or more required for video playback) Internet connection for installation 15GB disk space for installation USB-port FireWire-port or Thunderbolt-port for CoreAudio-supported audio device Supports 64-bit AAX plug-ins in Pro Tools Windows Intel® PC with Windows 7 64-bit (Home Premium Professional and Ultimate Editions) or Windows 8/8.1 (Standard and Pro Editions) Intel® Core i5 processor 4GB RAM (8GB or more required for video playback) Internet connection for installation 15GB disk space for installation USB-port or FireWire-port for ASIO-supported audio device Supports 64-bit AAX plug-ins in Pro Tools