Avid has announced that Pro Tools 12 is now available, also offering new flexible licensing options that includes the choice to subscribe for as little as $24.99 per month or to buy outright with an annual upgrade plan.
Pro Tools 12 will also provide more access to forthcoming Avid Cloud Collaboration, Avid Marketplace and Avid Artist Community developments, designed to provide a more efficient, collaborative and profitable connection between artists, media professionals and their audiences.
Avid Cloud Collaboration is an integrated set of collaboration workflows for groups of artists and audio professionals to work together on the same project. These integrated workflows eliminate the manual file management required when relying on generic cloud storage solutions by automatically synchronizing project changes across the group.
Avid Marketplace delivers in-app purchase of plug-ins and apps from Avid Connectivity partners, and a community for connecting talent with collaborators, for buying and selling content, and for storing their work.
Avid Marketplace Highlights:
—Get plug-ins and apps immediately: With the Avid App Store, artists can find and immediately download the latest plug-ins and applications from Avid Connectivity Partners directly from within their creative tools (available now)
—Find new talent and start new collaborations: With the Artist Community, any media professional and organization can search for the skills and specialties they need on a project, find new talent and potential collaborators and start a working relationship (coming soon)
—Share their work: The Avid Content Marketplace provides a new channel for artists to monetize their work by sharing it with a wide network of potential purchasers, with all licensing and rights agreements worked out through automatic templates (coming soon)
—Store their work and collaborate with other professionals: With Avid cloud storage, audio professionals can post sessions to their own cloud storage space and invite others to collaborate on projects (coming soon)
Seventeen additional plug-ins and nine new plug-in bundles are now available in the Avid Marketplace and as in-app purchases in Pro Tools, including:
—Eleven Effects Bundle, collection of 17 Avid AAX Native, DSP and AudioSuite 64-bit plug-in effects modeled after circuitry and design of many popular analog “stomp-box” guitar effects.
—Pro Series Bundle, which includes all five Avid Pro Series processors in AAX Native, DSP and AudioSuite 64-bit format as a single bundle at more than 50 percent savings.
—First Distortion Bundle, First Reverb Delay Bundle, First Guitar Bass Bundle, First Modulation Bundle, First EQ Dynamics Bundle, First AIR Effects Bundle, and First Air Instruments Bundle, including selections from the new Eleven Effects and other Avid plug-ins.
Pricing:
—Pro Tools software monthly subscription (one-month license subscription with updates and support) starts at $29.99/month
—Pro Tools software annual upgrade plan (12 months of updates and support) starts at $199
—Pro Tools software annual subscription (12-month license subscription with updates and support) starts at $299
—Perpetual licenses for Pro Tools software (includes 12 months of updates and support) start at $899
Pro Tools 12 is available to purchase online via the Avid Marketplace (here).
