Pro Tools 7.4 has been announced by Digidesign. Pro Tools 7.4 features what Digidedesign term Elastic Time, a production tool that can be used to change the tempo and timing of audio on the fly.
Pro Tools 7.4 software will be available soon for all Pro Tools platforms: Pro Tools 7.4 HD, Pro Tools 7.4 LE, and Pro Tools 7.4 M-Powered. Digidesign UK have not confirmed upgrade details but as soon as they have, we'll post here on DV News.
Pro Tools 7.4 Software
Get ready for a revolutionary new way to work with Pro Tools. Digidesign Pro Tools 7.4 software, featuring the time-manipulating power of Elastic Time, will have you approaching your projects in creative new ways, making working with tempo- and time-based sessions a whole lot easier and imaginative. Plus, increased support for Avid® video and shared storage solutions streamline the workflow between audio and video editors.
Stretch Your Sound with Elastic Time
Whether you’re a musician, composer, music producer, ADR engineer, or sound editor, Elastic Time makes it 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 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. You can even use REX and Acid loops right in Pro Tools.
To ensure that you get the best results, Elastic Time lets you choose from several high-quality time-stretching algorithms, which deliver the best-sounding processing in the industry, on a per-track basis. Want to hear how a certain audio bit will sound in your song? The new Context Preview lets you easily audition loops and audio files in sync with the tempo of your session. You can also now quantize audio to the session grid or extracted grooves. What’s more, you can fine-tune regions with precision control over each individual beat using the new Warp track view and Warp markers.
Powerful Workflows with the Avid Video World
Pro Tools 7.4 software opens up new avenues for working with video editors, bringing Pro Tools|HD and Pro Tools LE users into the Avid workflow to streamline post-production processes. For Pro Tools|HD users, Pro Tools HD 7.4 software and the new Media Station|PT with Video Satellite Option enable you to play back unrendered Avid sequences in sync with Pro Tools while maintaining full audio processing power. Pro Tools HD 7.4 software also provides tri-level sync compatibility with SYNC HD, enabling Pro Tools to resolve to most HD and Slow-PAL reference signals.
Pro Tools 7.4 also lets Pro Tools LE users benefit from the great picture quality, easy navigation, and efficiency of Avid video in the Pro Tools timeline with new support for Avid Mojo SDI with most members of the 003™ and Mbox® 2 product families. Pro Tools users who have Intel-based Macs can now work directly with Avid Mojo® and Avid Mojo® SDI. And Windows XP-based Pro Tools 7.4 software users can play and record media directly from Avid Unity ISIS™ shared storage networks.
If you’re thinking of upgrading to Windows Vista Ultimate or Business, Pro Tools LE and Pro Tools M-Powered 7.4 software provide support for both Microsoft platforms (32-bit only). ReWire support has been improved; Pro Tools 7.4 software now accepts MIDI input (both controller and note data) directly from ReWire applications (such as Reason) for recording to a Pro Tools MIDI or Instrument track. Pro Tools 7.4 also brushes up on its language skills with support for language characters in Unicode. That means you can work in any language supported by Unicode (such as Japanese, French, Greek, Russian, and Hebrew) anywhere in the Pro Tools application for labeling and editing text.
Pro Tools 7.4 debut at DV North London
Digidesign will be at DV North London on Friday 26th October demonstrating Pro Tools 7.4. Steven Webb from Digidesign will be happy to demonstrate the power of Elastic Time and many other new features within Pro Tools 7.4 on a one-2-one basis over coffee and biscuits.
If you want to find out more about Pro Tools 7.4, the new Control 24 bundles, new hardware exchange programs, the new virtual instrument box set or ask any Pro Tools question, come and have a coffee with DV and Digidesign. Book your one-2-one Pro Tools 7.4 Masterclass here