With the new Avid Pro Tools 12.2 software update, the popular DAW becomes even more accessible to independent artists and aspiring professionals, while enabling audio professionals to stay up to date and have access to the most current, powerful workflows.
First, the news for new potential users. Pro Tools can now be purchased with a perpetual license for the new low price of $599. This includes a perpetual Pro Tools license with a one-year $99 annual upgrade plan and a year’s access to a new expanded plug-in bundle. Users can also add Avid Standard Support for $99.
For existing Pro Tools and Pro Tools | HD users with annual upgrade and support plans and subscription licenses, Avid is delivering on its commitment to providing more value with a new release that includes access to premium AAX plug-in bundles, and a host of new features. New Pro Tools upgrade and support plans provide more value and flexibility to stay on top of the latest updates, access creative tools and get professional support. These include:
- Annual upgrade plan: provides access to all Pro Tools upgrades ($99) - Annual plug-in and support plan: provides access to a new bundle of 17 high-quality plug-in effects and Avid standard support ($99)
- Annual upgrade and support plan: provides access to all Pro Tools upgrades, a new bundle of 17 high-quality plug-in effects, and Avid standard support ($199)
Pro Tools users with monthly and yearly subscriptions will also have access to the new bundle of 17 plug-ins, in addition to the latest updates and professional customer support.
For Pro Tools | HD, the new annual upgrade plans that were recently updated with a lower renewal price ($399) now also include access to 16 new stompbox effects and nine additional premium AAX plug-ins. Users with active upgrade plans will get access to this plug-in bundle during the term of their plan, while all new Pro Tools | HDX and HD Native systems come bundled with the new annual upgrade subscription.
The new version of Pro Tools also includes several key enhancements that are among the most requested by the Pro Tools community and will enable audio professionals to use advanced mixing workflows like VCA Masters, extended metering, gain reduction metering, and Disk Cache for high-performance playback and record, even when using slower storage.
The new Pro Tools 12.2 update will be available September 9, and is free of charge to Pro Tools 12 customers with upgrade plans.
The Annual Upgrade Plan for Pro Tools | HD systems starts at $599 for the first year and includes upgrades, access to the HD plug-in bundle and standard support for one year. All new Pro Tools | HDX and HD Native systems come bundled with this plan which can be renewed for $399 each year thereafter. Starting in 2016, plans that lapse can be reinstated for $999.
The plug-ins
Both Pro Tools and Pro Tools | HD get new access bundles of plug-ins in addition to the more than 60 plug-ins and virtual instruments previously included for the term of their plan. The plug-in bundles include 16 new stompbox effect plugins from Eleven Rack. Audio professionals can add grit, space, modulation, and overdrive to guitar tones and more with this bundle of stompbox-type effects from the Pro Tools | Eleven Rack amp/cabinet emulation system. Eleven Effects is a new collection of 64-bit AAX Native, AAX DSP, and AAX AudioSuite plug-in effects that are modeled after the circuitry and design of many classic and popular analog guitar stompboxes and effects—from EQ and compressor, to reverb, delay, modulation, and distortion effects.
Pro Tools users also get Space, a convolution reverb plug-in for music and post-production applications. From the largest concert hall to the densest plate reverb, Space delivers the pristine sound of natural reverb spaces with full control of reverb parameters in mono, stereo, and surround formats.
Pro Tools | HD users, in addition to the 16 Eleven stompbox effects and Space, also receive all five Avid Pro Series plug-ins including Pro Compressor, Pro Expander, Pro Limiter, Pro Multiband Dynamics and Pro Subharmonic, as well as the Eleven amp/cabinet simulator plug-in, the ReVibe II powerful room modeling plug-in, and the Reverb One plug-in.
Pro Tools (Standard) 12 access plug-in bundle contains:
Space
Eleven Effects Stompboxes: BBD Delay, Black Op Distortion, Black Shiny Wah, Black Spring, C1 Chorus/Vibrato, DC Distortion, Flanger, Gray Compressor, Green JRC Overdrive, Orange Phaser, Roto Speaker, Studio Reverb, Tape Echo, Tri-Knob Fuzz, Vibe Phaser and White Boost
Pro Tools HD 12 access plug-In bundle contains:
Avid Pro Series: Pro Compressor, Pro Expander, Pro Multiband Dynamics, Pro Subharmonic and Pro Limiter
Space
Eleven
ReVibe II
Reverb One
Eleven Effects Stompboxes: BBD Delay, Black Op Distortion, Black Shiny Wah, Black Spring, C1 Chorus/Vibrato, DC Distortion, Flanger, Gray Compressor, Green JRC Overdrive, Orange Phaser, Roto Speaker, Studio Reverb, Tape Echo, Tri-Knob Fuzz, Vibe Phaser and White Boost
www.avid.com
