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Plenty of Power - Plenty of Expandability!
Sweetwater has installed, tested and delivered more Pro Tools TDM systems to audio professionals than any other retailer on the planet. That's why we're confident when we say that Pro Tools|HD is one of Digidesign's most powerful and flexible Pro Tools system to date! With more Pro Tools systems around than any other audio production system, owning a Pro Tools|HD system keeps you in step with both your competition and creative associates at the same time. A Pro Tools|HD 1 system is the perfect system for the audio professional who's just getting into Pro Tools. It combines out of the box power with the expandability you might need in the future.
Digidesign Pro Tools|HD 1 Core System at a Glance:
- Pro Tools|HD 1 Core card with plenty of DSP power.
- Support for high track count and high resolution audio.
- Pro Tools HD systems - leading the pro audio pack.
- The added power of Pro Tools|HD version 7 software
Pro Tools|HD 1 Core Card
Pro Tools|HD 1 features the HD Core card, supporting up to 32 channels of I/O and guaranteed support for up to 96 simultaneous audio tracks with no stress on the computer. The HD Core card houses a host of powerful DSPs that provide the dedicated mixing and processing horsepower audio professionals have come to expect from Pro Tools. Plus, expanding the system's dedicated processing power and I/O capacity is as easy as adding additional HD Accel card.
Support For 192kHz Audio
Incorporating a new, highly advanced hardware architecture, Pro Tools|HD features more DSP power than ever before, support for increased sample rates (up to 192kHz), high-resolution audio interfaces and peripheral options, higher track count and I/O capacity, expanded routing flexibility, and much, much more. It might be the most complete, all-in-one audio production system available; every aspect of audio creation takes place within a single, integrated environment.
Meet the Whole Pro Tools|HD Family
Pro Tools|HD core systems are available in three sizes: Pro Tools|HD 1, Pro Tools|HD 2, and Pro Tools|HD 3. Each Pro Tools|HD system requires at least one of the new audio interfaces, such as the 192 I/O or the 96 I/O, and supports the use of legacy Pro Tools audio interfaces for additional inputs and outputs. All Pro Tools|HD systems come with the latest Pro Tools software, and are modular, allowing you to expand at any time as your needs grow.
Digidesign Pro Tools 7 at a Glance:
- Instrument Tracks for improved integration with virtual instruments and MIDI sound modules.
- Real-time MIDI processing capabilities.
- Enhanced support for multi-processor computers and improvements to the RTAS environment.
- Menus have been streamlined and organized more logically.
- Support for a full array of hardware interfaces and peripherals.
More Compositional Tools
Take advantage of new Instrument Tracks for improved integration with virtual instruments and MIDI sound modules. Work with REX and ACID files - two of the most popular formats for loops and samples. Group any combination of audio and MIDI regions together to quickly build arrangements. Use new region looping capabilities to assemble grooves or fill time between video cues. Apply groove input quantization to alter the feel of MIDI tracks as you record. With these and many more features, Pro Tools 7 software is what composers have been waiting for.
Real-time Tweaking Encouraged
Experiment more freely with MIDI tracks using new real-time MIDI processing capabilities. Capitalize on mirrored MIDI editing to automatically alter copies of MIDI regions throughout a session. Use the new Zoom Toggle button to quickly enter an editor view mode for easy editing of audio and MIDI. Choose the new Link Track and Edit Selection option to apply track-level commands across multiple tracks at the same time. In addition to these features, nearly every MIDI operation window includes enhancements, making it faster and easier to work with MIDI than ever before.
Greater Mixing Power and Flexibility
Enhanced support for multi-processor computers and improvements to the RTAS environment in Pro Tools 7 software increase plug-in counts up to 150% on dual-processor computers. In many cases, you'll be able to run more than twice as many RTAS plug-ins and virtual instruments on your sessions. (Click here for more information on RTAS performance improvements.) Additional software optimizations provide a faster, more responsive, and more powerful workstation. Plus, support for RTAS processing plug-ins on Aux Inputs and Master Faders (a new feature for Pro Tools|HD systems) enhances compatibility between Pro Tools|HD, Pro Tools LE™, and Pro Tools M-Powered™ systems.
Even Easier to Use
Even with all of its additions and improvements, Pro Tools 7 software is still one of the easiest audio applications to use. Menus have been streamlined and organized more logically, though key commands remain the same. A new Tool Tips feature provides descriptions of objects within the interface when the cursor is placed over them so you can get better acquainted with the interface.
Enhanced Avid Picture Support
- Now supports Avid Mojo on Windows XP as well as on Mac OS X.
- Captures DV25-quality video directly to the Pro Tools timeline, providing an integrated, efficient solution for near-sample-accurate sync.
- New Avid Media Station|PT companion application conforms, renders, exports, and lays back Avid sequences for Pro Tools with Avid Mojo and AVoption|V10.
Improved Workflow
- Import and play back IMX MPEG50 video with the Digidesign AVoption|V10 interface.
- Import, edit, and export MXF (Material Exchange Format) audio files.
- Record and play back audio and video directly from Avid Unity MediaNetwork via the Avid Mojo or AVoption|V10 interface.*
- Integrated "Send to DigiDelivery" command streamlines worldwide collaboration.
Powerful New Mixing Features
- Powerful new automation features such as AutoMatch and AutoJoin, plus Trim Mode enhancements.
- New non-destructive AFL/PFL (after-fader listen/pre-fader listen) Solo function.
- Supports the new medium-format ICON D-Command tactile worksurface.
- "Inline" console emulation mode for the ICON D-Control worksurface to control preamp, record, and monitoring levels from one channel strip.
Additional Pro Tools 7 Features
- Includes EQ III - the all-new, free, high-resolution, double-precision 48-bit EQ plug-in.
- Organize plug-ins by type, manufacturer, or both.
- Translation of the Pro Tools user interface and user guides into Korean and Simplified Chinese.
Pro Tools|HDpack Version 6.0
Enjoy the benefits of additional major plug-in firepower when you purchase a Pro Tools|HD 1 system. Along with the included, standard DigiRack set of Digidesign plug-ins, the Ignition Pack, and additional free Bomb Factory plug-ins, here's what you get with your new Pro Tools|HD 1 system.
Includedwith Pro Tools|HD 7:
- PACE iLok Smart Key
- Bomb Factory BF-3A by Bomb Factory
- Cosmonaut Voice by Bomb Factory
- Focusrite d2/d3 by Focusrite
- JOEMEEK SC2 Compressor by Bomb Factory
- JOEMEEK VC5 Meequalizer by Bomb Factory
- moogerfooger Lowpass Filter by Bomb Factory
- SansAmp PSA-1 by Bomb Factory
Bomb Factory Plug-ins:
- Bomb Factory BF76 Compressor
- BF Essential Clip Remover
- BF Essential Correlation Meter
- BF Essential Meter Bridge
- BF Essential Noise Meter
- BF Essential Tuner
- Funk Logic Mastererizer
The Pro Tools Ignition Pack 2 Pro includes:
- Ableton Live Lite 6 Digidesign Edition: Compose, record, remix, improvise, and edit musical ideas easily with this intuitive sampler/sequencer. Live's audio sequencing can modify loops in real time - just drop any loops you like into a song, regardless of their pitch or tempo.
- Propellerhead Software Reason Adapted 3: Specially developed for Pro Tools systems, this latest version of Reason Adapted includes a serious virtual rack of synthesizers, samplers, and effects that you can stream directly into the Pro Tools mixer through ReWire.
- FXpansion BFD Lite (6 kits): FXpansion BFD Lite puts a full drum studio within easy reach, letting you work with virtual acoustic drum kits and individual samples - all produced in pristine fidelity with multiple velocity layers.
- IK Multimedia AmpliTube LE: AmpliTube LE is a flexible plug-in with a variety of amp and cabinet models, classic stomp boxes, and other effects. AmpliTube LE sounds great on guitar or anything else.
- Celemony Melodyne essential: Melodyne essential enables you to tune mono audio tracks, edit the timing of melodic lines, or completely rearrange parts through an intuitive interface.
- iZotope Ozone 3 Lite, Trash Lite, and Spectron Lite: With this collection of iZotope's acclaimed plug-ins, you have a powerful range of tools to sculpt your sound. There's Ozone 3 Lite for mastering your mixes, Trash Lite for an array of top-notch classic guitar amp tones and stomp box effects, and Spectron Lite for advanced signal processing and spectral effects.
- Trillium Lane Labs TL EveryPhase: TL EveryPhase delivers analog phaser effects with plug-in convenience - you can add anything from rich, modulations, to subtle tremolo, and intense feedback, choosing between a range of presets, or using the controls to dial in the sound you're after.
- Trillium Lane Labs TL Utilities: The plug-ins included with TL Utilities are the kind of tools you'll come to rely, day after day, session after session. TL Metro is a versatile metronome that offers a range of sounds for your click tracks, TL InTune is a handy professional digital tuner for instant instrument tuning, and TL MasterMeter offers the first over-sampling meter for Pro Tools for critical mixing and mastering applications.
- Arturia Analog Factory SE: With Analog Factory SE, you'll enjoy hundreds of high-quality vintage and modern analog synth sounds - plus the ability to tweak them to sonic perfection!
- Digidesign Xpand! by A.I.R.: Xpand! is a powerful virtual instrument with a host of sounds designed to inspire your creativity, and help you polish your tracks. Cellos, string ensembles, a grand piano, multiple synth beds, chimes, bells, acoustic and electric basses, and more - with Xpand! you can quickly create fully realized soundscapes and backing tracks.
- Way Out Ware TimewARP 2600 Lite: A spot-on emultion of the vintage ARP 2600 analog synth (endorsed by the ARP's original creator, Alan Robert Pearlman), you can choose from more than 60 preset patches for instant, 70s vibe.
- M-Audio ProSessions SE Sound Library: ProSessions SE offers up its collection of high-quality samples so you can build up deep mixes right away.
- Big Fish Audio, Cycling '74, Sonic Reality, Zero-G Sound Libraries: Put premium sample libraries to work for you! These top-name sound library manufacturers offer an array of usable sounds - no matter the musical genre.
- Pro Tools Method One Instructional DVD: Learn Pro Tools system essentials, from setting up sessions and recording audio to editing MIDI, working with loops and plug-ins, automating mixes, and more.
- One-year Membership to Broadjam.com: Promote your music around the world with a free one-year membership to Broadjam.com, an easy-to-use web service for independent musicians.
- One-year Subscription to Sonicbids.com: With this one-year standard subscription, you have the tools you need to promote yourself to the media, record labels, booking agents, and more with your own personal Electronic Press Kit.
- 3 free contest entries on GarageBand.com: Take your music to the next level, and submit a contest entry on GarageBand.com for a chance to be signed.
- Free Three-Month Trial Subscription to an Industry Magazine: Find inspiration with a free three-month trial subscription to a leading music industry magazine such as Bass Player, Electronic Musician, EQ, Frets, Guitar Player, Keyboard, Mix, Recording, Remix, Urb, or BPM. (Available in the U.S. and Canada only.)
Though the software applications included in the Pro Tools Ignition Pack are "lite" versions, they are fully functional tools that pack in serious features for music creation and production. They are not demos. What's more, many of the software manufacturers offer upgrades to the full versions of their respective products at discounted prices.
DigiRack Plug-ins:
- Chorus
- Click
- D-Verb
- D-Verb-AS
- DigiReWire
- Dither
- Dynamics II
- EQ II
- EQ III
- Flanger
- Invert/Duplicate
- Mod Delay II
- Multi-Tap Delay
- Normalize-Gain Change
- Ping-Pong Delay
- Pitch
- Reverse-DC Removal
- Signal Generator
- Stereo Mixer
- Surround Mixer
- Time Comp-Exp-Pitch Shift
- TimeAdjuster
- Trim
Digidesign Pro Tools|HD 1 Features:
- Sample rate support up to 192 kHz
- Next-generation, dedicated hardware performance combined with host-based processing capability for ultimate power and flexibility
- World-class, high-resolution audio interfaces, each offering a wealth of analog and digital connections and unmatched price/performance
- A complete professional audio solution, including audio interfaces, synchronization, MIDI and mic preamp peripherals, and more
- Expandable DSP power and I/O capacity
- Includes TDM II, Digidesign's new bus architecture design, providing support for extremely large mixing configurations
- Proprietary DigiLink interface standard for connectivity of HD Core and HD Process cards at lengths of up to 100 feet†
- HDpack plug-in promotion, providing thousands of dollars in Digidesign and Development Partner plug-ins for free
- A wide range of options available from Digidesign and Digidesign Development Partners
- Full session compatibility with systems running Pro Tools 5.1 software or higher; supports all older Pro Tools sessions
Digidesign Pro Tools|HD 1: Power and expandability in one package!
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"Pro Tools HD is the only system I've owned that allows me to use my outboard equipment with my computer in real time. It is the most powerful and flexible studio solution I've ever used!"
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"I get more DSP power for plug-ins and virtual instruments from my HD1 system than from a Mix3 system! Is it worth the $$ vs. native systems, like MOTU or Digi 002? Only if your music is good!"
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