Compete audio toolset: Record, mix, arrange, and edit audio in one comprehensive, easy-to-use application.
Produce high-resolution 24- or 32-bit files with sample rates up to 192kHz for HD- and DVD-quality audio.
Multitrack mixing
Record and Mix, Apply Effects
Complete professional toolset for recording, tracking and mixing high quality audio
Views
Multitrack View with unlimited stereo tracks - Record, edit, and mix
Wave Editing view - Record and edit individual audio files
Recording
Improved recording performance - direct to final working file, save immediately
Up to 80 live inputs - simultaneously in multitrack session.
Real-time input monitoring - effects applied to input track
Quick punch - fix recording errors by punching in corrections on-the-fly as rerecord Toggle record button to punch in new take only where want to replace old one
Editing
Improved multitrack editing and mixing - New automatic crossfade creation, clip fade handles, and automation lane editing improvements
On-track fast editing -Automatic cross-fade and click and drag fade handles
Smooth splined envelopes - Adjust volume, pan, effects for clips in a multitrack mix Alter curves and create gradual transitions; rescale all envelope points
Group and edit clips together - Including trims and fades in Multitrack View
Manipulate clips - with digital signal processing (DSP) tools, Mastering and analysis tools, audio restoration features
More than 50 audio effects and DSP tools - echo, flange, reverb
Automation
Recordable parameter automation - Move volume, pan, and effects controls as you listen Changes appear as editable envelopes in timeline
Hardware controller automation - Adjust mix and effects parameters using external control devices, record all changes in real time
Improved I/O meter display - level meters for master track, multiple input and output devices
Routing
Effects Rack - Automate and route in Multitrack view
Effects chain on all channels, buses, and master - hear results before mixing down
Routing flexibility - Audio mixing sends and inserts Create sends to duplicate signals routed to different effects Add send to create a separate mix for headphones during a recording session
Plug-in delay compensation - Add filters and effects to tracks and buses throughout signal chain without knocking tracks out of sync
Standards
ASIO, VST, DirectX, ReWire support - industry formats and standards
MIDI timecode support - (SMPTE/MTC) master or slave synchronize audio playback with MTC computers, video decks, hardware devices
VST Plug-In Manager - Enable and disable VST plug-ins
Export
Surround Encoder - transform any multitrack mix into a 5.1 surround sound experience Export as interleaved file that can be used in Adobe Premiere Pro
Mix down entire session - Selected clips, or range into a new file for use as single track
Response
Realtime response - Modify volume, pan, effects controls as listen, record changes to mix
Low-latency mixing engine - Work with ASIO high-performance audio devices Mix tracks on the fly, hear changes as you record / mix
Multicore processor support - optimized mixing engine
Multitrack view
Create and Arrange
Creative sound production and arranging
Multi-Track
Loop-based soundtrack creation - Included loops and ready-to-use music Construct high-quality music beds for songs or movie soundtracks Loops automatically match global session tempo and key Approximately 5,000 uncompressed, 32-bit, royalty-free loops included
VSTi virtual instrument support
Record and edit MIDI - piano roll editor
Playlist window - Play in any order, loop specified times Try different versions of an arrangement before commit to edits.
Royalty-free music beds - Includes 20 ready-to-play, 15- and 30-second lengths
CD extraction - Digitally extract tracks from audio CDs
Effects
New effects - include Convolution Reverb, Analog Delay, and Guitar Suite
New Guitar Suite effects - analog-modeled guitar effects
iZotope Radius time stretch engine - Fit clip timing without pitch changes or adjust pitch without tempo changes
Add effects to bus, track, or master channel
Arrange
Automatic beat detection - Find and mark beats, create loops
Sync to video in Surround Encoder - Keyframe surround sound multitrack mix View video as scrub, keyframe, and edit surround sound Export as interleaved file for use in Adobe Premiere Pro
Export
Custom script recording - Automate repetitive tasks, apply as batch process
XML session format - import and export sessions as XML
Spectral frequency view
Edit and Master
Full set of editing, restoration, and mastering tools
Wave Edit
Integrated wave-editing view - with Mastering Rack
Mastering Rack - Apply and preview multiple effects simultaneously in Edit view
Top and tail views - Zoom into selected areas Quickly edit beginning or ending of audio file
Analysis
Audio analysis tools - Frequency, Phase, Spectral Frequency Display.
Spectral Pan and Phase displays - Visualize pan, phase, and frequency over time
Spectral Frequency Display - Visually isolate and select sounds in frequency and time Isolate specific sounds and increase visibility of lower frequencies (logarithmic) Clean up, modify, or apply effects to selected sound (lasso tool)
Edit in spectral / frequency space - new Effects Paintbrush and Spot Healing Brush.
Restoration
More than 50 DSP tools - Mastering and analysis tools, Audio restoration Supports third party VST and DirectX plug-ins.
Audio restoration tools - including frequency space editing Restore recordings from old vinyl, remove hisses and hums, fix clipped audio and phase problems, recover previously unusable recordings
Adaptive Noise Reduction - Removes unwanted noise that changes over time
New audio healing and selection tools - remove or edit specific sounds or certain frequencies
Automatic Phase Correction - Optimal delay to align channels of stereo waveform
Analog-modeled Multiband Compressor - Control dynamics, adjust loudness
Pitch correction - Correct off-pitch performances, automatic or manual
Vocal/instrumental extraction - Based on pan position or phase Create a cappella or karaoke-ready tracks
Mastering
Audio editing for video - Import and export video files, AVI, MPEG, DV, WMV Transfer between Adobe After Effects and Adobe Premiere Pro
Mastering tools - Graphic and Parametric equalizers, punch with Dynamics Processor, Hard Limiter, Multiband Compressor.
Mastering effect - Sweeten sound, Reverb to Gains
High-quality sample rate conversions - customizable dither settings 44.1kHz, 48kHz, 96kHz for CD, video, DVD
Support more than 20 file formats - Windows PCM (WAV), AIFF, MP3, WMA Import and export Ogg Vorbis (OGG)
Burn directly to gapless audio CDs - Create reference masters of compositions
Multitrack mixing
Multitrack view
Spectral frequency view
