New in Pro Tools LE 7 Software

   


Digidesign Pro Tools LE 7 software introduces a plethora of new features and enhancements that deliver significantly expanded MIDI and audio recording and editing capabilities, greater mixing power and flexibility, enhanced efficiency, and improved ease of use, providing a new creative environment for the industry-standard digital audio workstation.





MIDI
 


Advanced MIDI Sequencing Functionality

  • New Instrument Tracks combine MIDI and audio capabilities in a single channel strip, simplifying routing for virtual instruments and MIDI sound modules

  • Real-time MIDI processing enables control of MIDI quantization, note duration and velocity, transposition, and timing in real time

  • Enhanced groove quantization features, including the ability to apply groove template quantization across multiple tracks, add randomization to further humanize the feel of a groove, and apply groove template quantization to incoming MIDI signals

  • Sample-based MIDI tracks allow MIDI events to stay locked to time code regardless of session tempo changes

  • Zoom Toggle enhancements enable users to quickly toggle between two different user-defined settings in the Edit window, making it easier to work with both MIDI and audio

  • Mirrored MIDI editing mode allows adjustments made to one MIDI file affect all existing copies of that region

  • Additional MIDI improvements, including

    • An enhanced Select/Split Notes window enables users to split a MIDI performance into multiple tracks by MIDI note, velocity, duration, or position

    • A new Remove Duplicate Notes command allows users to quickly clean up recorded or merged MIDI tracks

    • An overhauled Change Duration window offers new legato, overlap correction, and transform sustain pedal features

    • The Transpose window now allows users to transpose all notes in octaves and semitone
 
EDITING
 


More Creative Audio Editing and Arranging Features
  • New Region Groups allow grouping of any combination of audio and MIDI regions, across any number of tracks

  • New Region Looping feature offers an easy way to repeat one or more audio regions, MIDI regions, and Region Groups, speeding up composing and arranging

  • Work with REX and ACID audio files — the two most popular audio formats for loops and samples

  • Separate on Grid and Separate at Transient functions allow editing of multi-track audio regions simultaneously, based on a grid value or transients in an audio file

  • Support for quantizing audio regions according to a grid or groove template

  • New “reverse” Strip Silence functionality allows for extracting louder portions of audio tracks
 
MIXING
 


Enhanced Mixing and Processing Capabilities
  • Improved host processing efficiency allows you to run more select RTAS effects and instrument plug-ins simultaneously

  • Support for up to 10 sends per track increases mixing flexibility and allows larger, more complex mixing architectures

  • Support for up to 160 simultaneous channels of I/O

  • Support for RTAS plug-ins on Aux Inputs and Master Faders

  • Send assignments can now be copied or moved across tracks via drag-and-drop

  • New Automate All command allows arming automation of all plug-in parameters at once

  • An all-new, free Dynamics III DigiRack plug-in (released concurrently with Pro Tools 7 software) allows easy and powerful control of mix dynamics

  • EQ III now includes a new filter band-pass solo mode, making it easy to isolate and remove unwanted signals or noise in an audio track

  • New Cut, Copy, Clear Special commands allow more refined editing of automation

  • Additional software optimizations provide users with a faster, more responsive, and more powerful workstation
 
EFFICIENCY
 


Increased Efficiency and Improved Ease-of-Use
  • Reorganized Pro Tools menu structure offers streamlined and more logical menu navigation (key commands remain the same)

  • New Tool Tips feature adds “rollover” descriptions of objects in the Pro Tools software interface

  • Support for dragging and dropping audio, MIDI, REX, and ACID files from the desktop to the timeline

  • New Link Track and Edit Selection command allows for quickly applying track-level commands globally across multiple tracks simultaneously

  • Support for dragging multiple regions onto a single track simultaneously

  • New Find History menu added to the Region List Find command makes Region List searches faster and easier

  • Added Duplicate Tracks dialog allows for defining how many tracks, and which track parameters, to duplicate

  • Import Session Data dialog now supports importing Markers and Mix/Edit Groups

  • New DigiBase improvements include support for working with MIDI files and an added Tempo column to organize and view audio files by tempo

  • Red Book audio CDs can now be imported from the DigiBase Workspace on both Windows XP and Macintosh computers

  • Support for up to 999 Markers/Memory Locations

  • Resizable I/O Setup and Disk Allocation dialogs allow access to more parameters simultaneously

  • The Pro Tools software interface now supports the Traditional Chinese language