Pro Tools is a digital audio workstation (DAW) developed and released by Avid Technology (formerly DigiDesign) for Microsoft Windows and macOS. It is used for music creation and production, sound for picture (sound design, audio post-production and mixing and, more generally, sound recording, editing, and mastering processes.
Pro Tools operates both as standalone software and in conjunction with a range of external analog-to-digital converters and PCIe cards with on-board digital signal processors (DSP's), such as the M-Box by DigiDesigns. The DSP is used to provide additional processing power to the host computer for processing real-time effects, such as reverb, equalization, and compression, and to obtain lower latency audio performance. It will also act as an Interface wired directly to its host computer via technologies such as (but not limited to) USB, Thunderbolt, FireWire. Like all digital audio workstation software, Pro Tools can perform the functions of a multi-track tape recorder and a mixing console along with additional features that can only be performed in the digital domain, such as non-linear and non-destructive editing (most of audio handling is done without overwriting the source files), track compositing with multiple playlists, time compression and expansion, pitch shifting, and faster-than-real-time mix-down.
Pro Tools 10 software is the latest version of Avid's flagship music creation and audio production software, and delivers many great new features.
Speed up editing and mixing workflows with Clip Gain.
- Work more easily with AudioSuite-rendered clips with reverse processing handles and other new workflows.
- Get great responsiveness on slower hard drives with the enhanced disk handler.
- Work with more plug-ins and maintain total phase accuracy with 4x more Automatic Delay Compensation (16k vs. 4k in Pro Tools 9).
- Create bigger mixes in Pro Tools HD, with higher track counts.
- And get over 500 new Pro Tools commands when using Artist Series, System 5, and other EUCON enabled consoles.
Works fine on macOS X 10.8x and 10.9x