# 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 Buy an annual Pro Tools plan and get more creative tools from partner brands. ## 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. ## FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS - [Can I try Pro Tools for free?](/content/pro-tools#/index.html) - [Is Pro Tools compatible with third-party plugins and hardware?](/content/pro-tools#/index.html) - [Can I buy Pro Tools without a subscription?](/content/pro-tools#/index.html) - [What are the system requirements?](/content/pro-tools#/index.html) - [What’s included in Pro Tools?](/content/pro-tools#/index.html) 1. 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