Avid Announces Pro Tools 12 with Collaboration Features, new Free Pro Tools First and Sibelius with Cloud Publishing

At NAMM 2015, Avid introduced Pro Tools First, a free version of Pro Tools, together with Pro Tools 12, introducing new flexible licensing, cloud collaboration, new marketplace services, and cloud publishing. The new colaboration platform extends to Sibelius, Avid’s notation software, now with cloud publishing.

Audinate announced new enhancements to the Dante Ultimo low-channel chipsets and firmware, now supporting daisy chaining, new control enhancements, and bit depth support. Ultimo now supports 16-, 24- and 32-bit PCM audio, selected globally or per-channel as needed.

Avid has embarked in a completely new product architecture for its audio, video and newsroom solutions, which basically requires that all users get connected with cloud services to take advantage of what the company calls Avid Everywhere. To encourage its user base to follow the company’s vision, Avid is promoting new licensing for Pro Tools, giving access to future cloud features and software upgrades through March 2016.

The new Pro Tools | S3 desktop control surface is a great middle level mixing solution, leveraging the same design of the S3 Live, including a 4x6 AVB Core Audio interface, for small project studios or on-the-go music and post mixing. During the 137th AES convention, Avid also announced new Pro Tools 11 licensing incentives, by providing access to future cloud features and software upgrades through March 2016.

PreSonus Audio Electronics pioneered affordable digital mixing with integrated audio recording interfaces in compact configurations. Its latest firmware upgrade for the StudioLive AI-series Active Integration digital mixers enables cascading two consoles of any size, creating up to 64-channels fully featured configurations.