![]() As much as we look forward to these regular updates and minor improvements in our workflow, it will be interesting to see if the next version of Pro Tools has a few more headline-grabbing features. Now that Avid are back in the swing of things with Pro Tools 2019.5, we look forward to more updates as the year progresses. Pressing Start+Alt+ (Windows), or Ctrl+Opt+ (Mac) will snap start of the currently selected clip to the end of the previous clip, while Start+Alt+ (Windows), or Ctrl+Opt+ (Mac) will snap the end of the currently selected clip to the start of the next clip. ![]() What next?įinally, Avid has added a new key command to make snapping clips to the next or previous clip quicker and simpler. This behaviour isn’t perfect: many plug-ins have a built-in latency, which will inevitably cause a slight glitch in the playback performance as Pro Tools readjusts the latency compensation, but it should make for faster workflows, leaving you to be creative without worrying about how Pro Tools will handle the changes. And as a further improvement you can now even change the loop points without stopping and restarting playback. ![]() This means you can now quickly loop audio and keep it in playback as you experiment with a number of different ideas. Unlike previous versions, Pro Tools 2019 will no longer stop playback when you perform a number of basic editing and mixing actions, such as moving clips in the edit window, adding or removing tracks or plug-ins, or routing audio. Pro Tools 2019.5 has added track naming to the New Tracks dialogue window, making it easier than ever to make sure this never happens to one of your sessions. There is nothing worse than receiving a project containing files titled Audio_01, Audio_02 etc. Poorly named tracks are a bugbear of many professional engineers. Pro Tools | First users also get a look in with this version of Pro Tools, bringing unlimited local sessions to the free version of Pro Tools, as well as up to three simultaneous projects on the Avid Cloud. Similarly, Avid has expanded the number of available MIDI channels to 1024, vastly expanding the number of virtual instruments you can have in a single Pro Tools session. Pro Tools 2019.5 expands this to 384 audio channels by default and can be further extended to 768 voices using HDX cards, or by purchasing Native Voice Packs, which expand Pro Tools by 128 voices per pack. Previously, Pro Tools was limited to 256 audio channels – more than enough for many users, but problematic for some film and TV dubbing editors, as well as some more adventurous musicians. ![]() While this change only affects a subset of Mac users, the next major change only really affects users running enormous projects. For everyone else, this means they can finally upgrade to Mojave, safe in the knowledge that it won’t break Pro Tools! This is of particular importance to anyone who might have bought a new Mac in the last year, since new Macs come with the latest OS preinstalled and downgrading to older versions isn’t supported at all. For Mac users, the biggest update is probably the support for macOS Mojave, both in Pro Tools itself and in the accompanying EuControl software, which enables control of Pro Tools from S3 and S6 devices as well as the PT Control App running on iPads. All this is not to say Pro Tools 2019.5 does not come with any new features.
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