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About Pro Tools
Pro Tools is Avid's digital audio workstation for recording, editing and mixing, widely used in professional studios for music and film sound.
It is sold as a subscription in three tiers. Artist offers 32 audio tracks and 64 MIDI tracks. Studio raises that to 512 audio tracks and adds immersive mixing and one video track. Ultimate provides 2,048 audio tracks, 64 video tracks and full audio post-production workflows. It suits engineers and producers who need to exchange sessions with studios that use Pro Tools.
Strengths
- Common session format in professional studios
- Tiers scale up to 2,048 audio tracks
- Immersive mixing and video tracks in higher tiers
Limitations
- Subscription pricing
- Track counts and features are limited in the cheaper tiers
- No Linux version
Details
- Pricing
- PaidSubscription from $9.99 per month (Artist) to $99 per month (Ultimate).
- License
- Proprietary
- Developer
- Avid
- Platforms
- Windows, macOS
- How it runs
- Downloadable app
- Best suited for
- Audio engineers and producers working with professional studios and post-production
- Categories
- Audio tools
- Last verified
- Added
- Provenance
- Facts checked against the developer's own pages and store listings, 1 sources on file.
Alternatives to Pro Tools
Compare allSoftware that can replace Pro Tools for an important use case, and what changes if you switch.
Cubase
Steinberg's commercial digital audio workstation for recording, editing, mixing and producing music.
Cubase is Steinberg's paid Windows and macOS DAW for recording, editing and mixing both audio and MIDI, and belongs to Steinberg's wider audio software range.
Logic Pro
Apple's music production app for Mac and iPad for recording, beat-making, editing and mixing.
Logic Pro drops Windows and runs only on Mac and iPad, offers a one-time purchase on Mac instead of a subscription, and includes a large instrument and sound library.
REAPER
Full digital audio workstation for multitrack recording, editing, mixing and MIDI.
REAPER is a small, fast, customisable DAW that adds a Linux build and uses a paid licence with an unlimited evaluation period instead of a subscription.
Ableton Live
Performance-oriented DAW built around clip launching for electronic music.
Ableton Live is a paid Windows and macOS DAW built around Session View clip launching, suited more to electronic music and live performance than post-production.
Bitwig Studio
A commercial digital audio workstation with a clip launcher, timeline and modular sound design tools.
Bitwig Studio is a paid DAW with a native Linux build, a clip launcher, sandboxed plug-ins and a modular Grid for sound design.
Ardour
A full digital audio workstation for recording, editing and mixing, with no subscription and no dongle.
Ardour is an open-source GPL-2.0 DAW for Windows, macOS and Linux with unlimited tracks and no subscription, though it bundles fewer instruments and loops than commercial suites.
FL Studio
Beat-making focused DAW known for its lifetime free update policy.
FL Studio is a paid Windows and macOS DAW focused on pattern-based beat-making, with lifetime free updates after a single purchase rather than a subscription.
Cakewalk Sonar
Windows DAW with a free tier, successor to the discontinued Cakewalk by BandLab.
Cakewalk Sonar is a Windows-only DAW with a free tier, continuing a long-running lineage, while the full feature set requires a paid membership.
Pro Tools as an alternative
Listings that name Pro Tools as an alternative.
Adobe Audition
A professional audio workstation for recording, editing, mixing and restoring audio for video and podcasts.
Pro Tools is also subscription-based, with a session format common in professional studios and higher tiers adding immersive mixing and video tracks.
Similar software
Related functionality, not necessarily a direct replacement.
iZotope RX
An audio repair and restoration suite for removing noise, clicks and other problems from recordings.
Melodyne
A note-level pitch and timing editor for vocals, samples and other audio recordings.
Steinberg WaveLab
Mastering suite with phase scope, multimeter and loudness analysis tools.
FabFilter Pro-Q
Equalize audio in a production host with FabFilter's Pro-Q plug-in.
iZotope Insight 2
Professional metering suite for loudness, true peak and spectral analysis.
