Pro Tools M-Powered

As easy to use as it is powerful, Pro Tools M-Powered software includes many of the same features that top studios rely on to produce Grammy®-winning albums and Academy Award®-winning film sound. Together, M-Audio hardware and Pro Tools M-Powered software deliver the seamless workflow of moving sessions between home, studio, stage and road.



Compatible products for Pro Tools M-Powered

Firewire Solo
Firewire 410
Firewire 18/14
Delta 1010
Delta 1010-LT
Delta 66
Delta 44
Audiophile 192
Audiophile 2496
Ozonic




Produce with the Industry Standard—Anywhere, Anytime

The combination of M-Audio gear and Pro Tools M-Powered lets you work anywhere, anytime with the industry standard in music production software. You can open sessions created in Pro Tools M-Powered software with any Windows XP- or Mac OS X-based Digidesign Pro Tools TDM or LE system, giving you unprecedented production options for your music. Seamlessly collaborate with other musicians using Pro Tools M-Powered or Pro Tools LE systems. Easily take your projects to a Pro Tools|HD-equipped recording studio to have it mixed by a pro. Or take your pro studio projects home or on the road with you—even use them as backing tracks on stage. With Pro Tools M-Powered, owners of select M-Audio interfaces instantly become members of the largest community of digital audio workstation users in the world.

Flexible and Portable—More Choices for You

A variety of M-Audio PCI and FireWire hardware interfaces are compatible with Pro Tools M-Powered software, giving you more choices in where, when and how you work. For basic, high-fidelity I/O on the desktop, for instance, check out the venerable Audiophile 2496 and Audiophile 192 PCI cards. M-Audio’s FireWire mobile interfaces let you easily put together a multi-channel studio-to-go—4-in/10-out on the FireWire 410 and 18-in/14-out on the FireWire 1814. The Ozonic even integrates a FireWire audio/MIDI interface and mic/instrument preamp with a full-featured 37-key MIDI controller keyboard. Plus, M-Audio FireWire peripherals are powered from the computer’s FireWire bus**, providing a new variety of completely portable, go-anywhere FireWire-based Pro Tools workstations.

Professional Recording, Editing and Mixing

M-Audio hardware enthusiasts can use Pro Tools M-Powered software to tap into the powerful recording, editing, and mixing features of Pro Tools. With up to 32 simultaneous tracks of 16- or 24-bit digital audio, and support for up to 96kHz sample rates, Pro Tools M-Powered is an ideal companion for M-Audio interfaces and audio interface keyboards—whether you’re recording solo work or entire bands.

Once you’ve finished your recording, you can fine-tune your performances with Pro Tools’ unmatched nondestructive editing tools. Shape sounds, compose parts, and add effects with RTAS instrument and effects plug-ins. Create polished mixes with professional mixing features and full mixer automation.

Automatically analyze and tighten percussion tracks with Beat Detective LE. Add Digidesign’s Command|8 control surface for hands-on mixing with touch-sensitive faders. With Pro Tools M-Powered, you’ve got the tools you need to create professional mixes wherever you want to take your music.

**requires powered 6-pin connection

Integrated MIDI Sequencing

Most M-Audio audio interfaces also support MIDI—and Pro Tools M-Powered software’s fully integrated MIDI sequencer allows you to record, edit, and mix up to 256 MIDI tracks alongside your audio tracks. Launch your favorite instrument plug-in to get the sound you want. Engage loop recording to quickly develop a multi-layered drum pattern, then use Groove Quantize to give it the right feel. Switch to MIDI Step Input to lay down a difficult passage. With M-Audio interfaces and Pro Tools M-Powered, your MIDI composing options are wide open.

Plug-ins Galore

Pro Tools M-Powered software not only provides access to award-winning Pro Tools software—you’re also instantly able to take advantage of a variety of RTAS and AudioSuite plug-ins designed by the recording industry’s largest professional third-party developer community. Track with powerful host-based vintage instruments like GForce’s Oddity and Minimonsta. Add spice with Wizoo’s Latigo and Darbuka virtual percussionists. And polish your mixes with affordable effects and mastering plug-ins like iZotope Ozone and Spectron that surpass even expensive hardware.

Pro Tools M-Powered also includes more than 30 DigiRack and Bomb Factory plug-ins right out of the box, including EQ, dynamics, delay, reverb, and many more.

ReWire for Ableton Live

Fans of Ableton Live will love Pro Tools M-Powered’s ability to accept Live’s output stream via ReWire for further mixing and processing. You get the best of both worlds—Ableton Live’s incredibly fluid real-time writing, production and remixing environment along with the industry standard in tracking, editing and mixing.