New Loop Features

The new Dynamic Transport mode allows you to start playback anywhere in the timeline without affecting the current selection by simply placing a Play Start marker. You can also edit and move loop selections independently of the Play Start marker, all without manually stopping the transport. Loop playback also automatically updates to the selection without having to manually stop and start the transport. With the new Loop Trim tool, you can instantly turn any audio or MIDI region into a loop. And auditioning audio files is easier than ever: The new Loop Preview mode lets you quickly audition a selected REX or ACID file in the DigiBase™ browser, while Auto Preview mode allows you to audition single or multiple files automatically when selected.

Compose Music Easier

Creating music in Pro Tools M-Powered ™ software has never been easier or more efficient, letting you concentrate on what matters most—your music.

New Music Tools

The new Create Click Track command quickly creates an auxiliary click track with the DigiRack™ Click plug-in already inserted with its own volume control. You can also set a preference to create a click track whenever you create a new session. The new Send to Sibelius command bridges Pro Tools and Sibelius notation software (sold separately), allowing you to export Pro Tools MIDI and Instrument tracks — complete with key changes—to Sibelius. And the new Key Signature ruler allows you to easily add, edit, move and delete key signatures in your sessions. Add a key signature to define the key of a composition; edit it to change sessions or passages to another key. You can specify the mode (major or minor), transpose MIDI pitches diatonically or chromatically and even constrain pitches to a key.

Improved MIDI Recording

Pro Tools M-Powered 7.4 software introduces several new functions and improvements to enhance your MIDI-recording process. MIDI regions are now always created on bar boundaries to help with looping and arrangement. And you can now click on the keyboard in MIDI and Instrument tracks to quickly select all of the same-pitched notes of your performance. What's more, with the new RTAS® Engine error suppression options, you can be sure that Pro Tools will keep moving along with your creativity�even when your system approaches its processing limits.

Edit and Mix Faster

Pro Tools M-Powered 7.4 software comes packed with plenty of new tools and enhancements that'll have you working smarter and faster than ever.

Dynamic Mixing

Forget about having to manually stop and start the transport to make changes to your mix configuration—you can now make many common changes on the fly. Go ahead, add or remove tracks; add, remove or copy inserts and sends; change a track's I/O routing; re-order tracks; and make other changes without having to manually stop playback.

Faster Workflow

New right-click functionality allows you to quickly perform common tasks by simply choosing a command from a shortcut menu. The Open Recent menu enables you to quickly open any of your last ten sessions—there's also a direct shortcut to your most recently opened session for even more convenience. You can also set your favorite EQ and dynamics processor as defaults, giving you fast access to these commonly used tools. The DigiBase browser now displays plug-in settings, enabling you to search them by name or manufacturer. You can also drag and drop plug-in settings from the browser onto empty inserts to add the corresponding plug-in or drop a plug-in settings file onto a plug-in to load the setting. Pro Tools M-Powered 7.4 software even lets you to easily insert and renumber memory locations.

Field Recorder Support

You can now import monophonic and polyphonic WAV files and metadata recorded by a field recorder into Pro Tools M-Powered and view its multi-channel metadata in new columns in the DigiBase browser, including the bit-depth, clip name, number of channels, duration, format and more.

Automation Enhancements

Automation data now displays in real time while it's being written, letting you actually see how you're affecting a track. The way in which Pro Tools M-Powered indicates a track's automation writing status has also been improved, allowing you to clearly see which parameter is being written, along with which parameters are write-enabled or not. You can also set Pro Tools M-Powered to automatically enable all parameters of a plug-in for automation when you add the plug-in to your mix.

New Time Shift Plug-in

When you need to edit your work to fit an exact timeframe, the new DigiRack Time Shift plug-in employs some of the best-sounding algorithms in the industry for powerful time stretching and pitch shifting. Excellent for resizing loops in music production, Time Shift also offers presets for common pull-up and pull-down operations, making it an essential, easy-to-use tool in post-production applications.

Work the Way You Want

With new user-customizable features and enhancements, Pro Tools M-Powered 7.4 software lets you work the way you want to work with the utmost efficiency.

Save Your Views

Save up to 99 of your favorite window views with the new Window Configurations feature (aka “screen sets”), which allows you to have all of the right windows—in your chosen size, location and order—at your fingertips for the project at hand. Save a set of open windows to handle just your recording needs. Create another that allows you to mix audio unencumbered. Have all of the necessary windows ready for your post production projects. Or even tailor Window Configurations on a per-project basis. And if you want to temporarily hide all floating windows and then bring them back exactly as they were, the new Hide All Open Floating Windows command will do just that.

New Group Features

With Pro Tools M-Powered 7.4 software, you now have a total of 104 Mix and Edit groups available at your disposal. In addition, a new group dialog and commands allow you to create, modify, duplicate and delete groups quickly and easily.

Customize Zoom Toggle and Track Heights

With the new Zoom Toggle preference, you can specify the track height, track view and Edit grid resolution when zooming. Track height is now continuously variable, allowing you to quickly adjust a track's height by simply clicking and dragging. In addition, the Track Height pop-up menu includes two new options: Micro lets you see more tracks simultaneously, while the Fit to Window option expands the track to fill your entire screen so you can better view and edit a selection.

Work with Video

Pro Tools M-Powered 7.4 software adds a variety of features for working with video projects, including support for HD QuickTime formats such as H.264, HDV and DVCPRO 100. A Video Engine Rate indicator now displays video frame rates, and DigiBase browsers let you search and sort video clips by compression type and other useful metadata.

The combination of M-Audio gear and Pro Tools M-Powered 7 lets you work anywhere, anytime with the industry standard in music production software. Seamlessly collaborate with anybody running any version of a current Pro Tools system, including cross-platform between Windows XP and Mac OS X. Easily take your projects to just about any recording studio to have it mixed by a pro. Or take your pro studio projects home or on the road with you. With Pro Tools M-Powered 7, owners of most M-Audio interfaces instantly become members of the largest community of digital audio workstation users in the world.

Professional Recording, Editing and Mixing

Pro Tools M-Powered 7 software allows M-Audio hardware enthusiasts to easily enter the powerful recording, editing, and mixing features of Pro Tools. With up to 32 simultaneous tracks of 16- or 24-bit digital audio, and support for up to 96kHz sample rates, Pro Tools M-Powered 7 is an ideal companion for M-Audio interfaces and audio interface keyboards—whether you’re recording solo or entire bands. And the optional Music Production Toolkit expands Pro Tools M-Powered 7 to up to 48 mono or stereo tracks, and adds more effects and instruments, a multi-track version of Beat Detective and the Pro Tools MP3 Option.

Once you’ve finished your recording, you can fine-tune your performances with Pro Tools’ unmatched nondestructive editing tools. Shape sounds, compose parts, and add effects with RTAS instrument and effects plug-ins. Create polished mixes with professional mixing features and full mixer automation.

Quantizing MIDI data is one thing—but did you know that Pro Tools M-Powered also enables you to quantize audio? With Beat Detective LE, you can automatically analyze and tighten your rhythm tracks. You can even create groove templates from other loops or songs and apply them to your own material. With Pro Tools M-Powered 7, you’ve got the tools you need to create professional mixes wherever you want to take your music.

Affordable

There was a time when many musicians couldn’t afford the price of entry into the world of Pro Tools. That’s all history, thanks to Pro Tools M-Powered 7. It dramatically lowers the bar on price, while raising it for creative options. Pro Tools M-Powered 7 is available for a special low price from Streamline Audio Video and works with an extensive list of inexpensive, open-ended M-Audio hardware options. To sweeten the deal, you get over 43 production plug-ins for free, including the incredible Xpand! Multi-Synthesis Sound Factory.

Fans of Ableton Live will love Pro Tools M-Powered 7’s ability to accept Live’s output stream via ReWire for further mixing and processing. You get the best of both worlds—Ableton Live’s incredibly fluid real-time writing, production and remixing environment along with the industry standard in tracking, editing and mixing.

If you want the tactile feel of a pro console while enjoying the benefits of a personal or project studio, Pro Tools M-Powered 7 supports both Digidesign’s Command|8 and M-Audio’s ProjectMix I/O. Both give you control over the software’s MIDI functionality. ProjectMix I/O even incorporates a built-in 10 x 10 FireWire audio interface complete with eight preamps so you don’t need any extra gear.

Flexible and Portable—More Choices for You

One of the benefits of Pro Tools M-Powered 7 is that you can harness the creative power of specialized M-Audio production hardware. The Black Box not only gives guitarists killer amp modeling and unique beat-synced effects, it serves as a Pro Tools M-Powered-compatible audio interface for Mac and PC platforms. Keyboardists and electronic music producers also benefit from our Ozone and Ozonic, both of which integrate a keyboard, MIDI control surface, audio/MIDI interface, mic/instrument preamp and headphone monitoring.

Pro Tools M-Powered 7’s fully integrated MIDI sequencer allows you to record, edit, and mix up to 256 MIDI tracks alongside your audio tracks. New dedicated Instrument tracks combine the audio and MIDI elements of a given virtual instrument into a single channel strip to streamline your workspace. Launch your favorite instrument plug-in to get the sound you want. Engage loop recording to quickly develop a multi-layered drum pattern, then use Groove Quantize or Groove Templates to give it the right feel. Switch to MIDI Step Input to lay down a difficult passage. Turn on real-time MIDI processing to quantize your performance as it goes down. And use new advanced editing features to easily tweak everything to perfection.

Pro Tools M-Powered 7 software not only provides access to award-winning Pro Tools software—you’re also instantly able to take advantage of a variety of RTAS and AudioSuite plug-ins designed by the recording industry’s largest professional third-party developer community. Track with powerful host-based vintage instruments like GForce’s Oddity and Minimonsta:Melohman. Add spice with Wizoo’s Latigo and Darbuka virtual percussionists. And polish your mixes with affordable effects and mastering plug-ins like iZotope Ozone and Spectron that surpass even expensive hardware. (All GForce, Wizoo and iZotope plug-ins are sold separately.)

Pro Tools M-Powered 7 also includes more than 43 DigiRack and Bomb Factory plug-ins right out of the box, including EQ, dynamics, delay, reverb, and many more. You also get Digidesign’s exciting new virtual synth powerhouse, Xpand!, absolutely free. Xpand! ships with over 1,000 factory patches comprised of up to four parts and features four built-in arpeggiators and two effects processors.