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Avid Release Pro Tools HD 12.8 with Dolby Atmos Integration
Avid has just released Pro Tools | HD 12.8 which includes all of the new Dolby Atmos Mixing features. Pro Tools | HD users can now experience intuitive Dolby Atmos mixing workflows—with support for Atmos 7.1.2 audio stems, native object panning, advanced automation, ADM BWAV support, and deep Avid control surface integration— all from within Pro Tools | HD.
Pro Tools | HD 12.8 Key Atmos features:
Support For 7.1.2 and 7.0.2 Formats with New Track Formats
Pro Tools HD now allows you to work with with a variety of Dolby Atmos speaker configurations for editorial and sound design, with support for 7.1.2 and 7.0.2 stem formats, as well as built-in fold-down logic
Pro Tools | HD 3D Object Panner
Easily make mixing decisions on the fly right from your Pro Tools mixer with 3D object routing and panning, eliminating the need for the Dolby Atmos Panner plug-in
Dolby Atmos Metadata And Re-recorder Integration
Dial-in mixes with ultimate fluidity using synchronized audio and automation punches while re-recording
Pro Tools | HD Supports ADM BWAV File Format
Pro Tools 12.8HD provides support for the ADM BWAV file format, an archivable, repurposable file format that Pro Tools is able to read and open out to Dolby Atmos object tracks with all the object metadata.
You can now import a Dolby Atmos master that's been saved as an ADM file, and bring in panning, track labelling and grouping. In this way, a Dolby Atmos Master file that's been created using a system other than Pro Tools can also be file imported into your Pro Tools session.
Dolby Atmos Workflow Integration with Avid Control Surfaces
Get the greatest power and value with complete Dolby Atmos workflow integration in Pro Tools | S6, delivering the most affordable console for mixing the industry’s leading immersive audio format
Dolby Atmos Workflow Integration with Pro Tools | MTRX
Monitor and route hundreds of audio inputs and outputs through Pro Tools | MTRX, which provides the bandwidth and sonic fidelity preservation required for mixing any large-scale immersive audio format
Pro Tools 12.8 Download
Pro Tools | HD 12.8 is available for download now in your My.Avid account, if you are on a current Pro Tools | HD Upgrade and Support Plan. If you've let your plan expire you can Shop or Upgrade Pro Tools HD from RSPE. Not sure what Pro Tools Upgrade you need? Check the RSPE Pro Tools Configurator and find your upgrade.
Contact your RSPE specialist with any questions about Pro Tools 12.8 or upgrading your studio to Dolby Atmos.
Avid have announced the next Pro Tools Upgrade at NAMM show 2018. The new version, Pro Tools 2018, represents not only a software update, but an overhaul of the Pro Tools versioning scheme. In addition to the new naming scheme, this release adds new features that help music creators jumpstart their creativity, stay in their flow, and finish projects with speed and efficiency. It will be available to new customers, current subscribers, and users with an active upgrade plan.
Pro Tools 2018 includes major improvements and new features for Pro Tools | First, Pro Tools, and Pro Tools | HD.
New Pro Tools 2018 Versioning Scheme
For 2018, Avid is implementing a new software version numbering convention.
Software releases will be numbered according to the year and month, for example the first software release in January of 2018 will be numbered 2018.1Subsequent releases within the same month will have an additional suffix, for example 2018.1.1For products that do not release on a monthly basis,…
Avid have released a software update for Pro Tools that fixes a number of bugs/issues that many Pro Tools users have been having. Keeping in line with their new numbering scheme, Pro Tools 2018.3 is a March 2018 release. Here is the list of the bug fixes in the Pro Tools 2018.3 release.
Bug FixesControl Surfaces
The Pro Tools | S6, and Pro Tools | Control, now use the correct page table for the expand knob and fader assignment (PT-237378)The page table for Dyn3 De-Esser now uses the correct page table on the Pro Tools | S6 Knob Module (PT-233948)The Pro Tools | Control application will now reflect when tracks are hidden from Pro Tools | S6 or Pro Tools (PT-238653)Opt/Alt touching a fader, in flip mode, will once again set the console and Pro Tools fader to its default value (PT-238654) Crash/Errors
Fixed a crash when cycling clips in a selection and then undoing (PT-237545)Fixed a crash when a deleted committed track is cleared from undo queue (PT-238766)Fixed a crash when recalling tra…
Emmy Award Winning Sound Designer Paula Fairfield is most famous for her work on the hit HBO show, “Game Of Thrones". She’s the sound designer that gives the dragons their voice, and every roar, flap or hiss coming from one of Daenerys’ three dragons is created in the studio she built in her desert home near Palm Springs.
The heart of Paula’s studio is the Avid Pro Tools S6 control surface and Colin Broad PD3 / A-Mon monitoring system that controls her HDX system. For Dolby Atmos monitoring, RSPE incorporated a JBL LSR system housed in the ASC AttackWall for Immersive Sound. The ASC AttackWall provides an optimum mixing environment that's portable and modular and translates every time.
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