Avid Pro Tools 12 with 12 Months Upgrades and Support, Activation Card and iLok 2 USB Key

Avid Pro Tools gives you every tool you need as a musician from composing and recording to editing and mixing. And Avid has been doing it for so long that practically all of the best musicians in the world use Pro Tools.
• Create even bigger mixes with new support for up to 128 simultaneous audio tracks and 512 instrument tracks
• Work with new advanced tools and features, right in Pro Tools:
- Mix and control groups of tracks faster and easier with VCA Masters
- Mix with confidence using 17 advanced metering options, including K-system, VU, and other professional standards
- Get gain reduction metering on every channel to gauge dynamics
- Experience smoother performance and highly responsive recording and playback with the extended disk cache, which loads entire sessions into RAM no matter how large
- Rehearse and record more easily with track input monitoring
- Dial in cue mixes in a snap by copying fader settings to sends - Solo tracks in PFL (pre-fader listen) or AFL (after-fader listen) mode for optimal recording
• Get access to Space, a high-quality convolution reverb plug-in, plus 16 jaw-dropping stompbox effects emulations free for the first year
• Unleash your creativity with multiple times more processing power than ever before
• Add epic numbers of virtual instruments and effects to create richer sounding mixes
• Get unrivaled sound quality and powerful 64-bit performance to handle bigger mixes
• Play HD video right in the Pro Tools timeline without transcoding
• Polish mixes with over 75 64-bit AAX virtual instrument and effects plug-ins

Record and compose

Get top-quality sound and performance with Avid hardware
Whether you're tracking vocals, guitars, or an orchestra, you'll get the best possible sound and optimized performance when you pair Pro Tools with an Avid audio interface. Record high-resolution audio up to 32-bit/192 kHz and experience exceptionally low latency to capture your best performances easily.

Experience more power and performance
With the redesigned Avid Audio Engine and 64-bit performance you get multiple times the processing power Avid Audio Engine of previous versions of Pro Tools on the same hardware configurations. Add epic numbers of virtual instruments and effects to create bigger, richer sounding, and more complex mixes.

Loop and punch your way to perfection
Nobody's perfect, but with Pro Tools you can create a seamless performance from multiple takes. Let your spontaneity shine with Loop recording and comp together your best takes. Or use QuickPunch to quickly replace any questionable section with a better performance.

No instrument? No problem.
Easily create parts for practically any musical instrument using great-sounding virtual instruments, a MIDI keyboard/controller or your mouse, and the built-in Pro Tools MIDI Editor. Get started fast with the included virtual instruments and audio loops, and expand your arsenal with AAX virtual instruments from Avid and third-party audio designers.

Compose with full MIDI and notation tools
Take your songwriting from sketchpad to final production. Create and edit virtual instrument and MIDI performances with the MIDI Editor. Or compose music using notation tools in the built-in Sibelius Score Editor. You can even export sessions as Sibelius (.sib) files for further finessing in Sibelius.

Work and collaborate on projects from other apps
Collaboration has never been easier. With Pro Tools, you can exchange sessions with any Pro Tools user or studio. Or work on projects created in other audio and video software - including Media Composer, Logic, Cubase, and other third-party apps - right in Pro Tools.

Mix

Get the sound you want
Polish mixes with over 75 included effects, sound-processing and utility plug-ins. From high-quality reverbs, EQs, and compressors, to guitar amp emulators, surround sound fold-down, and channel strip dynamics, you have everything you need to create professional mixes. Want more? Browse the in-app Avid Marketplace to find the AAX plug-ins you need.

Mix with confidence using extended metering
Forget having to invest in additional plug-ins to get K-system, VU, and other professional metering standards. You now have 17 metering options built right into the interface, enabling you to optimize your mix while adhering to regional broadcast audio regulations. What's more, you also get gain reduction metering on every channel to gauge dynamics.

Grab control of your mix
You can use a mouse to make changes one at a time, or mix faster and easier using a hardware control surface. Get hands-on Pro Tools control with a choice of Avid Pro Mixing control surfaces and consoles, plus third-party boards.

Collaborate, store, and share mixes
Whether you've got a work in progress or a finished piece, Pro Tools makes it easy to share. With direct SoundCloud support, you can share files privately with other collaborators, or share finished projects with the world. And bounce mixes to your iTunes library to share with others on your network. Achieve the best mixes possible automatically Get great sounding, phase-accurate mixes with Automatic Delay Compensation - with 4x the samples (16,383) to handle the largest mixes - no matter how many plug-ins you use. Plus, you can automate the settings of every element in the Pro Tools environment to add life to tracks and achieve the best mix possible.

Plug into legendary sound
Add life to your mix. With the included Avid Channel Strip plug-in, you get exact replications of the renowned EQ and compression algorithms of the Avid System 5 - one of the most sought-after digital audio consoles used to create some of the greatest mixes ever produced.

Speed up delivery with offline bounce
Wait no longer... With faster-than-real-time offline bounce, you can speed up your final mix or stem deliveries at up to 150x faster - and get the high-quality results you'd expect only from Pro Tools, thanks to time-stamped automation. If you mix and deliver radio programs or other long-format shows, this feature alone will save you hours of time - daily.