Alto Music Bundle Avid HD Native System & Digidesign 192 I/O

Create professional-quality, richly detailed productions, quickly and easily, with the lowest latency of any host-based DAW. With Pro Tools|HD Native—a new generation of Pro Tools HD core system that harnesses the power of your Mac or PC—you get amazing sound, incredible performance, and the lowest latency on the host. Whether you create music or sound for picture, equip yourself with the tools you need to compose, record, edit, and mix with great speed, ease, and reliability—and hear what you’ve been missing.

 

A complete Pro Tools|HD Native system is comprised of a Pro Tools|HD Native PCIe card, which comes with Pro Tools HD software, and your choice of one or more Pro Tools HD Series audio interfaces:

 

I am very impressed with its stability. I tried very hard to break it but I couldn't! Well done Avid, a stunning product that works from day 1.

Mike Thornton, columnist for Sound on Sound

 

HD Native PCIe card and Pro Tools HD software—Unlike USB- or FireWire-based DAWs, which are inherently prone to latency, Pro Tools|HD Native employs a high-speed PCIe core card, greatly improving monitoring while recording. By eliminating distracting latency, increasing your I/O capabilities, and providing 64-bit floating-point processing for more headroom and a higher mix resolution, you get a professional native solution that meets the highest audio standards. And with the tight integration of Pro Tools HD software, included, you have all the tools you need for studio-quality music and audio production.

 

Pro Tools HD Series interfaces—Capture and play back audio in stunning clarity and easily work with a wide range of analog and digital gear. Whether you want to streamline your setup with an all-in-one interface, provide mic or MADI connectivity, or need a tightly integrated, flexible system that can handle complex productions with up to 64 channels of I/O, there’s a Pro Tools HD Series interface that’s right for you—choose one or more to complete your system and customize it for your needs.

 

Key benefits

Attain the lowest latency and highest performance of any native digital audio workstation

Capture and play back audio with pristine clarity using a Pro Tools HD Series interface (sold separately)

Work with industry-standard Pro Tools HD software in a lower-cost solution for projects that don’t require the DSP acceleration of Pro Tools|HD

Create bigger sessions with up to 192 audio tracks and up to 64 channels of I/O

Get the ideal tracking experience and set-and-forget direct monitoring with an integrated low-latency monitor mode

Boost your capabilities with advanced automation, surround mixing, input monitoring, AFL/PFL solo, destructive punch, and other professional features

Get better sounding mixes with RTAS plug-ins and Automatic Delay Compensation on hardware and software inserts

Share sessions with Pro Tools|HD users without any loss of data

Synchronize to timecode and video reference, with frame-edge accuracy, when using SYNC HD (sold separately)

Take hands-on control over your mixes using ICON, C|24, Artist Series, or Pro Series consoles and control surfaces

Get total flexibility—work with Mac or Windows, Pro Tools HD or third-party software, and more

 

Capture and play back with the highest quality conversion

Get pristine audio fidelity and clarity when you record and play back through a Pro Tools HD Series interface. These critically-acclaimed interfaces offer state-of-the-art A/D and D/A conversion, premium analog circuitry, high-quality/low-noise I/O, and meticulous designs to capture and reproduce the full, natural sound of your original source, so you hear all of the character and nuances that make it unique.

 

Mix with more headroom in the best sounding HD system yet

With Pro Tools|HD Native, you can create great sounding, studio-quality productions at up to 24-bit, 192 kHz audio resolution. And with 64-bit floating-point processing, you gain more headroom for your mix, enabling you to flex your creativity and maintain audio clarity—without fear of overloading the mix bus. So go ahead and pile on the plug-ins to get the sound you really want.

 

Create better recordings more easily—without distracting latency

What happens when you combine best-in-class audio conversion with a high-speed PCIe throughput? You get a high-performance system that can handle whatever you throw at it, and the lowest possible latency for your sessions. That means you can monitor your performance in sync with the playback for easier, worry-free recording.

 

Everything you need for professional music and audio production

With Pro Tools HD software included, you can compose, record, edit, sequence, and mix music and sound for picture with great speed and ease. Create complex compositions with the integrated Score Editor and MIDI production tools. Track sessions with extremely low latency. And gain inspiration and professional polish from over 70 included effects and virtual instruments.

 

Expand your capabilities

With Pro Tools|HD Native, you gain the flexibility to customize your system for your needs now and in the future. Mix and match HD Series interfaces to work with up to 64 channels of I/O. Add sync capabilities for working with video. Take hands-on control of your mix with an Avid control surface. And expand your sonic palette with a wide range of RTAS/AudioSuite* plug-ins, virtual instruments, and software options available from Avid and other third-party audio designers.

 

Open up your workflow

Use the included Pro Tools HD software and you’ll maximize your productivity, efficiency, and creative potential, as well as gain unparalleled performance and control of Avid audio and video interfaces, consoles, control surfaces, and live sound systems. But you can also use your Pro Tools|HD Native hardware with other Core Audio- and ASIO-compatible DAW software such as Logic, Nuendo, Live, Cubase, Reason, and Fruity Loops—with support for 64 channels of I/O—opening up even more creative avenues.

 

* Please note that TDM plug-ins are not compatible with Pro Tools|HD Native systems

 

Bundled Plug-ins

Every Pro Tools|HD Native system includes the following RTAS/AudioSuite sound processors, effects, virtual instruments, utilities, and audio loops to help you jump-start ideas and create the best-sounding productions possible.

 

Virtual Instruments and Audio Content

Big Fish Audio loop library (8 GB)

Boom drum machine and sequencer

DB-33 tonewheel organ emulator with rotating speaker simulation

FXpansion BFD Lite acoustic drum module

 

Mini Grand acoustic grand piano

Vacuum monophonic vacuum tube synthesizer

Xpand!2 multitimbral synth and sample workstation

 

Effects, Sound-Processing , and Utility Plug-ins:

1-Band EQ III

4-Band EQ III

7-Band EQ III

AIR Chorus

AIR Distortion

AIR Dynamic Delay

AIR Enhancer

AIR Ensemble

AIR Filter Gate

AIR Flanger

AIR Frequency Shifter

AIR FuzzWah

AIR KillEQ

AIR Lo-Fi

AIR MultiChorus

AIR Multi-Delay

AIR Nonlinear Reverb

AIR Phaser

AIR Reverb

AIR Spring Reverb

AIR StereoWidth

AIR Talkbox

AIR Vintage Filter

BF76 Compressor

BF Essential Clip Remover

BF Essential Correlation Meter

BF Essential Meter Bridge

BF Essential Noise Meter

Celemony Melodyne Essential

Chorus

Click

Compressor/Limiter

D-Verb

DC Offset Removal

De-Esser

Delay

DigiReWire

Dither

Duplicate

Eleven Free

Expander/Gate

Extra Long Delay II

Flanger

Gain

Invert

Lo-Fi

Long Delay II

Maxim

Medium Delay II

Multi-Tap Delay

Normalize

Ping-Pong Delay

Pitch

Pitch Shift

POWr Dither

Recti-Fi

Reverse

SansAmp

Sci-Fi

Signal Generator

Short Delay II

Slap Delay II

Time Compression Expansion

Time Shift

TL AutoPan

TL InTune

TL MasterMeter

TL Metro

Trim

Vari-Fi

 

What’s included

Pro Tools|HD Native PCIe card

DVD wallet, which includes:

Pro Tools HD software installation DVD (includes all bundled software)

Audio Loops DVD

Training Video DVD

User guides

iLok USB Smart Key (for software authorization)

Registration and software activation cards

12-foot DigiLink Mini cable for Pro Tools HD Series interface connection

DigiLink to DigiLink Mini Adapter for older Pro Tools interface connection

 

System requirements

Avid-qualified Mac OS X- or Windows-based PCIe computer 

 

Supported Channels/Tracks

Maximum Channels of I/O

64

Maximum Audio Tracks @ 48 kHz / 96 kHz / 192 kHz

192 / 96 / 36

Maximum Stereo Audio Tracks @ 48 kHz / 96 kHz / 192 kHz

96 / 48 / 18

Simultaneous Record Tracks

192

Total Instrument Tracks

128

Total MIDI Tracks

256

Total Auxiliary Tracks

160

Total VCA Tracks

128

Total Master Tracks

64

 

General

Host Card

1 (PCIe)

Mixer Resolution

64-bit floating point

Processing Resolution

32-bit floating point

ASIO/Core Audio Streams

64

Supported Plug-in Formats

RTAS, AudioSuite

Surround Mixer

Yes

Automatic Delay Compensation

4k @ 48 kHz

Supported Interfaces

 

Avid

HD I/O

HD OMNI

HD MADI

MIDI I/O

PRE

SYNC HD

SYNC I/O

96 I/O

96i I/O

192 I/O

192 Digital I/O

 

Supported Consoles and Control Surfaces

Avid

C|24

ICON D-Command

ICON D-Control

MC Pro

System 5-MC

S5 Fusion

System 5

Artist Series

Third-Party

 

Any analog or digital console or control surface that supports the HUI protocol

 

Extended Avid Workflows

Video/Media Integration

Interplay (Windows only)

Unity (Windows only)

Video Satellite

Video Satellite LE

Remote Control

 

MachineControl

Satellite Link