Avid announced that it will be focusing on the company’s latest developments, including previews of upcoming software releases that span workflows in music creation, notation and immersive audio, at the 2024 NAMM Show at the Anaheim Convention Center at booth 15102 in the North Hall.
“We’re kicking off the new year at NAMM 2024 by showcasing exciting new capabilities and improvements for our flagship audio and notation software,” says Francois Quereuil, Avid VP of product management. “With MIDI effect plugins in Pro Tools, Sibelius running on Android and improved exchange between the two applications, we’re excited to deliver on our unwavering commitment to musicians, composers and audio creators using Avid tools.”
Pro Tools will showcase new MIDI effect plugin support and MIDI signal flow improvements, while the open AAX SDK will allow partners to develop new MIDI effect plugins. Also being demonstrated are the new Avid Note Stack, Velocity Control, and Pitch Control, as well as Audiomodern Riffer 3, Modalics EON-Arp, and Pitch Innovations Groove Shaper MIDI effects plugins. A number of enhancements for Pro Tools Sketch, Avid’s clip-based editing and song creation window and iPad app, will be shown. Released in 2023, Sketch allows creators to capture new ideas and experiment with arrangements from anywhere.
Also previewed with be new development efforts utilizing Celemony ARA 2 technology to integrate award-winning technologies like iZotope’s RX Spectral Editor, Sound Radix Auto-Align, and SynchroArts RePitch into Pro Tools. This will provide users with more fluid workflows to repair, clean-up, and pitch correct audio without the need to roundtrip between applications.
For the first time publicly, Pro Tools and Sibelius will preview interoperability. Designed to save time for composers and producers, users will be able to copy music in Sibelius, paste it into Pro Tools, add MIDI automation and MIDI effects, then copy back to Sibelius for further orchestrating. Sibelius will also preview its open beta for Android and Chromebook functionality. Following scalable licensing options for education, Sibelius is continuing its focus on providing educators with the tools they need in the classroom and help prepare students for a future in music.
Alongside tech previews, Avid will be showcasing its line of interfaces and hardware acceleration options. The most recent additions include the native Thunderbolt 3 option card for Pro Tools MTRX II and MTRX Studio interfaces alongside support for SoundID Reference studio calibration import directly to DADman.
In December 2023, Avid released the internal Pro Tools Dolby Atmos renderer. At the show, Avid will preview the ability to print and monitor live Dolby Atmos re-renders. This update will be available for demo at the Avid booth and at the PMC booth in partnership with Dolby. Demo times will be Friday at 3 pm and Saturday at 11 am.
