Pro Tools | Professional DAW for Recording, Editing, and Mixing

Pro Tools

The DAW behind the final mix.

Pro Tools is the digital audio workstation trusted by the world’s top studios, producers, and award-winning artists. From GRAMMY®-winning albums to blockbuster films, it’s the most comprehensive software to record, edit, and mix world-class audio.

Choose a version

Monthly
Annual(save up to 50%)

Artist

Essentials for music recording, MIDI composition, and production

$99
$79
USD/year

32 audio tracks
64 MIDI tracks
110+ instruments and effects
Inner Circle plugins and sounds (annual only)

Studio

Complete toolset for professional music creation, editing, and mixing

$299
$239
USD/year

512 audio tracks
1,024 MIDI tracks
130+ instruments and effects
Inner Circle plugins and sounds (annual only)
Immersive mixing
1 video track

Ultimate

Advanced suite for audio post and large-scale music production

$599
$479
USD/year

2,048 audio tracks
1,024 MIDI tracks
130+ instruments and effects
Inner Circle plugins and sounds (annual only)
Immersive mixing
64 video tracks and editing
Full audio post workflows

Unlock $3,500 in bonus plugins

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Additional offerings

Pro Tools Intro

Ideal for more casual creators. Pro Tools Intro is free forever.

Perpetual Licenses

Learn how to buy or upgrade a Pro Tools perpetual license.

Students and Teachers

Get special pricing with verified academic eligibility.

Your complete audio workstation

Create music

Build songs with MIDI tools, virtual instruments, samples, and flexible arrangement features made for modern music production.

Record the perfect performance

Record vocals, instruments, or dialogue without slowing down the session. Keep every take organized in playlists, then comp the best moments into one polished track.

Edit and refine takes

Cut, trim, fade, and balance levels directly on the clip with context-aware tools that adapt to your task, so you can refine takes before ever hitting the mixer.

Mix for any format

Shape massive sessions with the industry’s most advanced automation, flexible routing, and powerful plugins. From stereo to immersive Dolby Atmos®, create audio for any playback environment.

Workflows for every project

Pro Tools can handle any session. From music to post, do it all at a high level.

Make beats Program drums, sequence synths, and take your beat from loop to final mix.
Create with MIDI Record with virtual instruments, turn audio to MIDI, and edit notes in the MIDI editor.
Sample music Find the perfect sounds, shape them into something original, then chop, stretch, transpose, and reverse your samples directly inside the audio editor.
Edit vocals & dialogue Help every lyric and word land clearly. Tighten timing, correct pitch, clean up edits, and preserve the feel of the original take.
Remove background noise Clean up audio without leaving your session. Use the included iZotope RX Spectral Editor via ARA 2 to reduce noise and repair vocals, instruments, and dialogue.
Sync sound to picture Pro Tools Studio and Ultimate offer video tracks and timecode for frame-accurate music scoring, dialogue editing, and sound-to-picture work.
Mix in Dolby Atmos® Create immersive spatial audio mixes for music, film, TV, and streaming with the built-in Dolby Atmos® renderer. Available in Studio and Ultimate plans.

FEATURES FOR EVERY SESSION

Record
Edit
MIDI
Mix

Additional Features

Track massive sessions
Capture large ensembles, bands, or complex productions with up to 256 simultaneous audio inputs.
Loop recording
Repeat a section as many times as needed to capture alternate takes without breaking the session flow.
Playlist comping
Build the strongest performance by quickly combining the best moments from multiple takes into one seamless track.
Punch-in accuracy
Record over a selected section of a take to easily fix mistakes, while keeping the rest of the performance in place.
Edit Modes
Move through Slip, Grid, Shuffle, and Spot modes to edit freely or lock changes to exact timing.
Smart Tool
Trim, fade, select, and move clips with a single context-aware tool that adapts as you work across the timeline.
Elastic Audio
Stretch, tighten, and reshape audio timing without re-recording the original performance.
Manipulate pitch
Shape and fix pitch across full clips or individual notes while keeping performances natural and musical.
Clip gain
Adjust the level of individual clips before mixing, so every phrase, hit, or edit sits in the right place.
Audio to MIDI
Turn audio performances into editable MIDI parts, so you can layer sounds, replace parts, or build new ideas.

MIDI Features

MIDI Track Playlists
Store alternate arrangements on a single track. Compare different hooks, patterns, and performance takes side by side.
Virtual Instruments
Compose with multi-timbral synthesizers, acoustic sample engines, and drum modules directly inside your session.
MIDI Effect Plugins
Spark ideas with MIDI effects to easily create complex arpeggios, trigger custom chords, and scale velocity.
MIDI editor
Comp the ideal take using MIDI playlists, then draw, edit, and adjust note velocities directly on the grid.

Mixing Features

Console style mixing
Route and shape sessions with an intuitive, analog-modeled layout built for large-scale mixing control.
Automation
Use advanced automation to change volume, panning, and effects over time, bringing dynamic life to your mixes.
Folder tracks
Keep massive layouts clean. Group, bus, and process dozens of stems into organized, collapsible folder tracks.
SoundFlow macros
Eliminate click-heavy tasks. Trigger over 1,700 built-in macros and complex multi-step commands with a single key.
Premium mixing plugins
Shape your signature sound using industry-standard EQs, classic dynamics processors, and studio-quality reverbs.
Spatial Rendering
Mix in Dolby Atmos and Audio Vivid natively. Monitor and render complete 3D spatial audio directly inside your session.

Behind today’s music and media

Avid x Emmys®

Go behind the scenes with the 2026 Emmy®-nominated picture and sound teams to see how they brought some of this year’s most celebrated TV shows to life with Media Composer and Pro Tools.

Stuart White

Mix engineer (Beyoncé, Jay-Z, fka twigs)

“At this point, Pro Tools is part of my creative self. It’s my tools, it’s my paint brushes, it’s my paints.”

Louis Bell

Music producer (Miley Cyrus, Justin Bieber)

“Pro Tools is my foundation for everything. It’s where I cut vocals, it’s how I make beats, how I come up with ideas...everything lives within that environment.”

Mixing sound effects for F1® The Movie

Juan Peralta

See how Skywalker Sound used input from Lewis Hamilton to build a visceral, millisecond-accurate F1 theater mix.

Mixing dialogue & music for F1® The Movie

Gary Rizzo, CAS

See how Oscar® winner Gary Rizzo designed custom radio profiles to make dialogue cut through 1,000-horsepower engine noise.

Producing the music for Wicked

Greg Wells

"I really can't think of any other way to get this job done than in a piece of software like Pro Tools. It can handle whatever you throw at it. There were so many tracks..."

Mixing the sound of Wicked

Andy Nelson Go behind the console with Andy Nelson to see how he balances soaring musical numbers with quiet, intimate dialogue in Dolby Atmos.

Level up your sound

Audio interfaces
Capture clean, low-latency recordings with studio-grade conversion.
Control surfaces
Get hands-on control over automation, plugins, editing, and session flow.
Audio plugins
Explore the plugin marketplace and expand your creative toolkit.
AvidPlay
Distribute your music to streaming platforms and keep 100% of your rights.
ARA 2
Use industry-leading audio tools in Pro Tools without roundtripping.

Capture and mix your sound at the highest quality

Bring pristine 32-bit float resolution, headroom, and clarity to every project.

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