Professional tools for aspiring music creators

Avid Pro Tools Artist gives you everything you need to create beats, write songs, record vocals and instruments, and mix studio-quality music - it's the same DAW software used by leading recording studios and broadcast video posting houses, but reduced for aspiring music creators, composers and producers.

This Pro Tools Artist subscription provides everything you need to create, edit and mix music, including powerful MIDI tools and a huge sound library, plus Avid's Artist Bundle, which contains more than 100 effects and instruments. Speaking of advanced tools, the Pro Tools Sketch window offers a non-linear, clip-based workflow that encourages you to experiment with musical structures in real time.

Your projects will benefit from a 32-bit audio engine, providing unmatched depth, dimension, and dynamic range. To top it off, your Pro Tools Artist subscription comes with Avid Standard support.

If you're looking for an easy and effective way to create music ready for streaming platforms, Pro Tools Artist offers a great starting point.

Note: This product requires you to have an iLok account for authorization, although it does not require a physical iLok key. Please contact your Sweetwater sales engineer if you have any questions.

Industry-leading recording, editing and mixing

There's a reason Pro Tools is the DAW of choice for countless recording studios and editing suites around the world: it's powerful and it just works.

With Pro Tools Artist, you can quickly and easily create, record, edit, and mix Grammy-level productions through an ultra-simplified 2-window user interface. All your vital controls and commands are at your fingertips and the most advanced functions are just a click away.

What's more, Pro Tools Artist employs a 32-bit audio engine that delivers incredible depth, dimension, and dynamic range for unparalleled sound quality.

Quickly sketch your ideas

Ask any musician and they'll tell you that every session starts with an idea. And with Pro Tools Sketch, you can take advantage of lighting that spark and defining the structure of a song quickly.

So what is Outline? The short answer is “the most impactful workflow update to Pro Tools in a long time.” The long answer is that Pro Tools Sketch is a new, non-linear, clip-based workflow. See how it works. Sketches are made up of looped, beat-matched audio or MIDI clips. It's easy to dynamically import, record, play, and rearrange clips to flesh out different parts of your music called Scenes. Once you've finalized your clips and scenes, you can export the final arrangement as a linear song. Pro Tools Sketch is available in all versions of Pro Tools and as a free iPad app in the Apple App Store.

Tailor-made for easy music creation

With its ability to handle up to 32 audio tracks, Avid Pro Tools Artist offers music creators an inspiring creative platform. You also get 32 ​​aux tracks, 32 instrument tracks, and 64 MIDI tracks. Pro Tools Artist also provides 32 routing folders and support for 16 channels of native I/O.

Minimize downtime with standard support

Downtime is a serious creativity killer. That's why your Avid Pro Tools Artist subscription includes standard support. This entitles you to unlimited support for billing and administration cases, with a 1-day response time. You also get one troubleshooting call per month with a 4-hour response time, unlimited web/email troubleshooting with a 1-day response time, and immediate access to Avid's video library, knowledge base, forums and a lot more.

Comes with the full suite of Avid plug-ins

The Avid Artist Plug-In Bundle is included with your Pro Tools Artist subscription. This pack offers over 100 top-notch effects and instruments for your musical enjoyment, along with an inspiring sound library. If you work in the box, you need a collection of great-sounding plug-ins, and the Avid Artist Plug-in Bundle effectively covers all the essentials.

Avid Pro Tools Artist Annual Subscription Features:

• Industry-standard digital audio workstation (DAW) software with state-of-the-art 32-bit audio engine
• Interact and make updates to tracks and timeline selections during seamless playback
• Supports up to 16 I/O channels, 32 mono/stereo audio tracks and 64 MIDI tracks
• The Sketch window provides a non-linear, clip-based workflow for maximum creativity
• MIDI input display shows notes and chords as you play them on a MIDI controller
• MIDI blending enhancements include seamless merging of newly performed and existing MIDI CC automation
• MIDI clips turn red during recording, confusing the distinction between MIDI and audio
• Use the left and right arrow keys to move to the next or previous MIDI note for super-fast MIDI editing
• The Name field in the New Track dialog makes naming tracks faster than ever
• Scroll to Track allows you to identify a track by name and scroll to it
• Batch Rename command for tracks and clips
• Powerful audio engine offers superior memory management
• Track Commit and Track Freeze free up system resources during intense sessions
• Layered editing prevents you from losing overlapping clips while editing
• Real-time fade manipulation to create fast crossfades
• Send fully overlapping clips to an existing playlist during editing and/or recording
• Grid Toggle function makes it easy to switch between Grid and Slip modes
• Tandem Trim allows you to trim the beginning and end of two adjacent clips simultaneously
• The clip replacement indicator alerts you when you move an audio clip so that it completely overlaps a smaller off-screen clip
• Soundbase uses tags to make audio files and loops easier to find
• Faster-than-real-time return-to-disk speeds your workflow and frees up resources
• Workspace Browser makes project navigation lightning-fast and incredibly simple
• Simple keyboard commands let you quickly disable and enable submissions and insertions
• Capture automation while recording audio
• Automatic delay compensation provides accurate mixing with minimal phase issues
• Multitrack Beat Detective and Elastic Audio let you correct tempo across all your tracks
• Score Editor and MIDI Editor provide comprehensive composition capabilities
• Mix multiple audio file types and formats in a single session without format conversion
• Create perfect performances using simple track composition functions
• Clip Gain provides dynamic volume flexibility and increases integration with Media Composer
• Visual Mute and Solo and Bus Interrogation indicators provide a clear view of signal flow
• Low-latency monitoring with Core Audio and ASIO hardware delivers smoother tracking
• Read/write flash drives, RAID systems, network-attached drives, and server storage
• Functions like Export selected tracks as session make collaboration easier
• OMF/AAF/MXF exchange support included
• Export support for MP3, iTunes and SoundCloud files also included
• Automatic delay compensation in sidechains
• Avid Cloud Collaboration and Avid Marketplace let you connect and collaborate
• Switch between Dark and Classic UI themes
• Avid Artist Bundle contains over 100 effects and instruments
• 1 year of software updates and standard support

Technical specifications

• Software Type: Pro Tools Artist DAW Software
• Platform: Mac, PC
• Update/Full: Perpetual License
• Download/Boxed: Download
• Bit depth: 64 bits
• Format: AAX
• Authorization type: iLok 2/3 or iLok Cloud (continuous Internet connection)
• Hardware requirements – Mac: Intel Core i5 processor or higher, 16 GB RAM (32 GB recommended), 15 GB disk space
• Hardware requirements - PC: Intel Core i5 processor or higher, 16 GB RAM (32 GB recommended), 15 GB disk space
• Operating System Requirements - Mac: macOS 10.14.6 to 12.3
• Operating system requirements - PC: Windows 10 or later
• Manufacturer Part Number: 9511-66304-00