Avid Introduces Pro Tools 2023.3 Software Update

Avid announced updates to its Pro Tools software that offer significant performance and processing improvements through fully qualified native Apple Silicon support, new options for manipulating audio pitch and time, and new creative tools for music makers. The release provides music creators with Pro Tools Sonic Drop, a content subscription program that delivers new samples, loops and instrument presets.

Antares Audio Technology, the company that created Auto-Tune, continues to push the boundaries of vocal production with the release of Auto-Tune Slice, a hybrid instrument that’s both a precision sampler and flexible synthesizer. The new advanced vocal sampler features an ever-expanding library of exclusive presets, advanced vocal transient detection, built-in effects, and Auto-Tune functionality.

Antares Audio Technologies, the famous creators of Auto-Tune and a leading provider of vocal effects and pitch correction technologies, have introduced Auto-Key, a new free mobile app for iOS devices. By simply tapping a button and holding the phone up to any audio source, Auto-Key Mobile will automatically detect the musical pitch of a song, chord progression, or loop, and display both the major key and relative minor.

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.

Celemony Software GmbH, announced immediate availability of the new Melodyne Version 5, advanced note and audio pitch editing software. The new Melodyne 5 offers enhanced technologies for musical editing of vocals in addition to a chord track with automatic chord recognition, access to the dynamics even of individual notes within chords, and countless further improvements to Melodyne's unique tools. Melodyne 5 also makes the editing and creative manipulation of recordings and samples better, faster, and more musical.

MAGIX Software announced the release of a brand new ACID Pro software package now featuring a series of advanced features including a source separation algorithm from zynaptiq and many updates to version 9. ACID Pro Next is now a much more complete DAW targeting music production, including the integration of zynaptiq' STEM MAKER technology that splits any existing song into different tracks, a new MIDI Playable Chopper, and many new creative possibilities for sampling manipulations.