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Whether you’re in a professional facility, home studio, or on the road, nothing gives you the performance, toolset, and inspiration to create like Pro Tools. With the power of award-winning professional hardware and software working together with your Mac or PC, you can easily compose, record, edit, and mix music or sound for picture — all within one system.

Virtual Instruments

Advanced Instrument Research
When you’re ready for the ultimate virtual instrument experience, look no further than the Digidesign® Advanced Instrument Research (A.I.R.) group. Developed from the ground up specifically for Pro Tools®, Digidesign A.I.R. instruments combine innovative plug-in engine technologies with cutting-edge sounds and interface designs, turning Pro Tools into the most advanced and flexible instrument on the planet.

Structure

Developed by the acclaimed Digidesign® Advanced Instrument Research (A.I.R.) group and optimized exclusively for Pro Tools®, Structure™ is a powerful RTAS® virtual instrument that redefines the art of sampling, allowing you to freely create, sculpt, and refine everything from simple acoustic instruments to highly complex soundscapes with amazing ease — in real time.

Structure comes with an extensive library of high-quality sounds from A.I.R. and EastWest (including a 30-day trial of Goliath — Structure Edition), welcomes the use of your own sample libraries, and lets you create your own samples directly from your Pro Tools sessions via drag-and-drop. It also features an impressive universal sound engine with support for an unlimited number of nestable patches, optimally manages sample streaming along with Pro Tools playback, and includes a powerful multi-effects processing engine. Whether you’re a musician, sound designer, audio engineer, or post-production editor, Structure offers superior playability and performance.

Strike virtual drummer

Strike is a revolutionary instrument plug-in that makes it easy to create professional drum performances in Pro Tools with uncanny realism and unbelievable human feel. More than just a high-definition drum module, Strike uses real drum performances and provides unprecedented control over every aspect of your virtual drummer’s sound and playing. Select a kit, set the mic placement and leakage, choose a room, and tell your drummer how to play as you adjust the intensity, complexity, timing, groove, dynamics, and more — in real time. This is one instrument you have to see to believe.

Velvet

Vintage Electric Pianos
Whether you’re inspired by classic 70s rock or have an ear to create something uniquely modern, Velvet delivers stunningly realistic emulations of your favorite electric pianos. This powerful instrument plug-in emulates these classic keyboards — both in sound quality and playing feel — and provides unrivaled flexibility to achieve sounds for any style of music. From the faintness of the lightest pianissimo to the note splat of the strongest fortissimo, Velvet is capable of delivering sounds you’d normally only hear when playing the real instrument — and those that are only limited by your imagination.

Hybrid

For those sound buffs who love to get their hands dirty, Hybrid is a high-definition software synthesizer plug-in that combines the warmth of classic analog waveforms with digital wavetables, enabling you to recreate sounds you remember or create something that no one’s heard before. It features a full range of analog and digital sounds, plus a deep set of user-adjustable parameters for your tweaking pleasure, empowering you to create richly complex and unique sounds in the studio or on stage.

Xpand

Built for songwriters, film composers, DJs, electronic musicians, music producers, and sound designers, Xpand! is a free sample-playback/synthesis plug-in that provides fast ways to access and manipulate thousands of high-quality sounds from within Pro Tools. With its 1,000+ presets, multi-synthesis engine, sample playback, virtual tonewheels, and effects processing capabilities, Xpand! is a sonic powerhouse that enables you to craft anything from pristine-sounding acoustic instruments to complex synthesized soundscapes or loop-driven techno tracks.

Virtual Box Set

Experience the ultimate in sound quality, feature innovation, performance, and musical playability with the Digidesign® Virtual Instrument Box Set, a powerful collection of virtual instruments by the Digidesign Advanced Instrument Research (A.I.R.) group. Designed and optimized specifically for Pro Tools® — and available only in Pro Tools — this specially priced box set features five groundbreaking RTAS® instruments: Hybrid™, Strike™, Structure™, Velvet™, and Xpand!™. The set also comes with a huge collection of high-quality sounds for Structure (five DVDs worth) that cover practically every musical instrument and audio post-production need — and then some.

Eleven Guitar plugin

Digidesign Eleven is a powerful TDM/RTAS/AudioSuite plug-in that sets a new standard for recording and live guitar amp sound. Eleven allows you to achieve highly realistic, jaw-dropping guitar tones based on the world’s most coveted vintage and modern tube amps, speaker cabinets, and mics — all right in your Pro Tools.