Pro Tools® software provides many powerful editing tools that no other recording system can match, offering a host of single-touch edit keys, editing tools, and other innovative features that allow you to view, organize, and execute edits quickly and easily.

Elastic Time
Elastic Time makes it super easy to change tempo or time on the fly. Change the tempo and timing of loops, music, dialog, and other sound files without cutting up a single sample of audio. Easily create loops from any audio file — even entire compositions — with the help of powerful tempo and transient analysis. And when you import audio files and loops, they automatically conform to match your session’s tempo.

Elastic Time lets you choose from several time-stretching algorithms, delivering the best-sounding processing in the industry — all on a per-track basis. Context Preview lets you easily audition loops and audio files in sync with the tempo of your session, regardless of their tempo. What’s more, you can fine-tune regions with precision control over each individual beat, using the Warp track view and Warp markers.



Easy, Yet Powerful
Edit in a single window environment and you’ll realize that Pro Tools became the industry standard not only because of its power, but also because it’s the easiest production environment to learn and use. Easily add crossfades between parts or edit points, make sample-accurate edits, tweak automation, rearrange entire sections, and more — all from within the Edit Window.

The Professional Editor’s Toolbelt
Pro Tools offers editing modes and tools to accommodate nearly every editing task you throw at it. Various editing modes allow you to move audio and MIDI elements with complete precision, while key navigation and specialized editing tools help you quickly move around your session and execute tasks instantly. For the ultimate efficiency, the Smart Tool automatically switches between the multiple edit tools, allowing you to stay focused on the task at hand.



The Power of Memory
Memory locations provide a powerful way to navigate your session while editing and arranging. You can set location markers to specific points in the Timeline, edit selections, or even a set of track display settings, allowing you to quickly recall each specific location with a keyboard shortcut, ensuring Pro Tools keeps up with your pace and workflow.

Pack Mentality
Region Groups, which consist of several different audio and MIDI regions grouped together as a single region, make song rearrangements and loop editing easy by allowing you to make edits across multiple tracks at once. By grouping several related regions together into one, you can make global changes to all grouped regions in one fell swoop, and move the group around freely — with all embedded regions staying in perfect sync.

Beat Detective
Beat Detective™ is a powerful tool for analyzing, editing, manipulating, and extracting rhythmic information from audio or MIDI regions. For example, you can use it to extract the timing and groove from a drum beat and apply that groove template to the bass part to ensure it’s tight in the pocket.

Unparalleled Automation
Everything in the Pro Tools environment can be automated, giving you full dynamic control and absolute recall of every session element, from track volume, mute and panning, to all plug-in parameters. All automation data stays tied to its corresponding audio and MIDI, enabling you to move regions without losing any automation information.



Crowd Control
Mix any combination of tracks together for a truly powerful and customized mixing experience. Use VCA Master tracks (Pro Tools HD software only) to emulate the operation of voltage-controlled amplifier channels on analog consoles, where a VCA channel fader can be used to control, group, or offset the signal levels of other channels on the console. Use relative grouping functions for linking tracks and their controls, and use Groups for editing several tracks (such as a pair of stereo tracks or a submix) while keeping them at the same relative volume level.

Dynamic Mixing
Forget having to manually stop and start the transport to make changes to your mix configuration — you can easily make many common changes on the fly in Pro Tools. Add or remove tracks; copy inserts and sends; change I/O routing; re-order tracks; and more — all without having to manually stop playback.



Pro Tools Plug-ins
Pro Tools® plug-ins are software tools developed by Digidesign and Pro Tools Development Partners™ that provide signal processing and virtual instrument options for Pro Tools. There’s a Pro Tools software plug-in for almost anything you can imagine, from instruments such as drum machines and synthesizers to popular effects like EQ, dynamics, reverb, pitch and time shifting, noise reduction, mastering, surround encoding, and much more. Learn more

New in Pro Tools 8
Change a track’s pitch without altering the tempo — in real time — using Elastic Pitch. Comp tracks together from multiple takes to create a flawless performance. Use Track Automation and Controller lanes to edit track automation (such as volume, pan, and plug-in automation) and MIDI CC messages such as velocity, picthbend, and modulation without changing Track views. Pro Tools 8 also adds support for up to 10 plug-ins on any given track — allowing for more creative processing options than ever before.

And, if you work with Pro Tools LE or M-Powered, get ready to grow your mixes. Pro Tools LE and M-Powered 8 expands the power of your system, allowing you to work with up to 48 simultaneous mono or stereo audio tracks. That’s up to 3x more tracks than previously!