General

• Industry-standard session compatibility with countless Pro Tools-equipped project and professional studios around the world
• Award-winning Pro Tools mixing environment
• 32-track audio recording, editing, and mixing up to 24-bit/96kHz (48 tracks available with the Music Production Toolkit)
• Real-time audio processing
• Import MIDI, REX, ACID, WAV, AIFF, AAC, MP3, and CD audio files
• Works on Windows XP and Mac OS X systems including Apple Quad processor and systems
• Unique Beat Detective automatic groove analysis and correction tool

Recording

• Powerful loop recording options
• Low-latency monitoring while recording
• Real-time MIDI processing enables control of MIDI quantization, note duration and velocity, transposition, and timing as you record
• QuickPunch functionality
• Advanced MIDI
• 256 tracks of powerful, intuitive MIDI sequencing
• New Instrument Tracks combine MIDI and audio capabilities in a single channel strip, simplifying routing for virtual instruments and MIDI sound modules
• Sample-based MIDI tracks lock MIDI events to time code regardless of session tempo changes
• Zoom Toggle switches quickly between two different user-defined settings in the Edit window
• Mirrored MIDI editing mode allows adjustments made to one MIDI file to affect all existing copies of that region

Editing

• Fully non-destructive editing with world-class tools
• Region Groups allow grouping of any combination of audio and MIDI regions, across any number of tracks
• Region Looping offers an easy way to repeat one or more regions and Region Groups
• 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
• Quantize audio regions according to a grid or groove template
• "Reverse" Strip Silence functionality allows for extracting louder portions of audio tracks

Mixing

• Host processing efficiency allows you to run many select RTAS effects and instrument plug-ins simultaneously
• Up to 32 internal mix busses and up to10 sends per track increases mixing flexibility and allows larger, more complex mixing architectures
• Copy or move send assignments across tracks via drag-and-drop
• Automate All command allows arming automation of all plug-in parameters at once
• Free Dynamics III DigiRack plug-in allows easy and powerful control of mix dynamics
• EQ III includes a new filter band-pass solo mode, making it easy to isolate and remove unwanted signals or noise in an audio track
• Advanced automation features and editing

Effects and Virtual Instruments

• Wide range of compatible creative software options available from Digidesign and Digidesign Development Partners including both real-time RTAS effects plug-in processing and file-based AudioSuite effects plug-in processing
• Advanced virtual instrument integration including free Xpand!, advanced synthesis instrument with over 1000 presets, up to four layers and two effects
• New Dynamics III DigiRack plug-in (included) allows easy and powerful control of mix dynamics
• EQ III (included) features a filter band-pass solo mode to easily isolate and remove unwanted signals or noise in an audio track
• Ships with over 43 more free RTAS and AudioSuite plug-ins, including EQ, dynamics, delays, reverb and more:
• Bomb Factory: Essential Clip Remover, Essential Correlation, Essential Meter Bridge, Essential Noise Meter, Essential Tuner, BF76, Funk Logic Mastererizer
• DigiRack: 1-Band EQ, 4-Band EQ, Chorus, Click, Compressor, D-Verb, D-Verb-AS, DC Offset Removal, Delay, DeEsser, DigiReWire, Dither, Duplicate, Dynamics II, Dynamics III, EQ II, EQ III, Expander-Gate, Extra-Long Delay, Flanger, Gain, Gate, Invert-Duplicate, Limiter, Long Delay, Medium Delay, Mod Delay, Mod Delay II, Multi-Tap Delay, Normalize-Gain Change, Ping-Pong Delay, Pitch Shift, Reverse-DC Removal, Short Delay, Signal Generator, Slap Delay, Time Comp-Exp-Pitch Shift, Trim easily accepts ReWire output stream directly from applications like Ableton Live for further mixing and processing

Efficiency and Ease-of-Use

• Logical, streamlined menu navigation
• Tool Tips provide "rollover" descriptions of interface objects Easy dragging and dropping of audio, MIDI, REX, and ACID files from the desktop to the timeline
• Quickly applying track-level commands globally across multiple tracks simultaneously
• Fast Region List searches including history
• Duplicate Tracks dialog streamlines defining how many tracks, and which track parameters, to duplicate
• Built-in DigiBase file management tool organizes audio and MIDI files according to attributes such as tempo
• Includes importing of Red Book audio CDs
• Up to 999 Markers/Memory Locations
• Multi-lingual support in user interface

Specifications

• Sampling rate: up to 96kHz
• Bit depth: 16 and 24
• Audio tracks: 32 simultaneous
• MIDI tracks: 256 simultaneous

Compatibility

• ReWire
• RTAS
• AudioSuite

Minimum System Requirements (PC)

• Digidesign-qualified M-Audio system
• Digidesign-qualified computer running Windows XP (Windows Media Center Edition not supported)
• For complete system requirements see the specifications at the DigiDesign website.

Minimum System Requirements (Mac)

• Digidesign-qualified M-Audio system
• Digidesign-qualified computer running Mac OS X
• For complete system requirementssee the specifications at the DigiDesign website.