Avid Pro Tools Delivers ARA 2 Support for iZotope, Synchro Arts, and Sound Radix Solutions Plus New MIDI Plugins

Avid has announced an update for its Pro Tools audio production software that introduces ARA 2 support for solutions from iZotope, Synchro Arts and Sound Radix. The update also adds two new included MIDI effect plugins from Mixed In Key, session export for Media Composer, Dolby Atmos enhancements, improved searching and importing of session data, memory locations enhancements, MIDI pitch labels, and more.

It's not only the transition in the way musicians create and publish music for streaming platforms that is changing the music industry. It's also a confluence of business models that is forcing technology companies to convert from selling products to selling services and subscriptions. LANDR Audio, the online music creation, mastering and distribution company announced that it has acquired Synchro Arts, the makers of the popular VocAlign and Revoice Pro vocal processing audio software.

Promoted every year by the market research firm Futuresource Consulting, Audio Collaborative 2019 full-day conference on November 7 was invaluable, with Futuresource's leading market analysts and researchers sharing some of the latest stats and trends on the topics in the agenda, combined with great panels and in-between keynotes. This is the fourth - and last - of my reports, originally published in The Audio Voice newsletter.