Create professional-quality, richly detailed productions, quickly and easily, with the lowest latency of any host-based DAW. With Pro Tools|HD Native—a new generation of Pro Tools HD core system that harnesses the power of your Mac or PC—you get amazing sound, incredible performance, and the lowest latency on the host. Whether you create music or sound for picture, equip yourself with the tools you need to compose, record, edit, and mix with great speed, ease, and reliability—and hear what you’ve been missing.

A complete Pro Tools|HD Native system is comprised of a Pro Tools|HD Native PCIe card, which comes with Pro Tools HD software, and your choice of one or more Pro Tools HD Series audio interfaces:

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• HD Native PCIe card and Pro Tools HD software—Unlike USB- or FireWire-based DAWs, which are inherently prone to latency, Pro Tools|HD Native employs a high-speed PCIe core card, greatly improving monitoring while recording. By eliminating distracting latency, increasing your I/O capabilities, and providing 64-bit floating-point processing for more headroom and a higher mix resolution, you get a professional native solution that meets the highest audio standards. And with the tight integration of Pro Tools HD software, included, you have all the tools you need for studio-quality music and audio production.

Features

• Attain the lowest latency and highest performance of any native digital audio workstation
• Capture and play back audio with pristine clarity using a Pro Tools HD Series interface (sold separately)
• Work with industry-standard Pro Tools HD software in a lower-cost solution for projects that don’t require the DSP acceleration of Pro Tools|HDX
• Create bigger sessions with up to 256 audio tracks and up to 64 channels of I/O
• Get the ideal tracking experience and set-and-forget direct monitoring with an integrated low-latency monitor mode
• Boost your capabilities with advanced automation, surround mixing, input monitoring, AFL/PFL solo, destructive punch, and other professional features
• Get better sounding mixes with AAX Native and RTAS plug-ins, plus Automatic Delay Compensation on hardware and software inserts
• Share sessions with Pro Tools|HDX and Pro Toold|HD users without any loss of data
• Synchronize to timecode and video reference, with frame-edge accuracy, when using SYNC HD (sold separately)
• Take hands-on control over your mixes using ICON, C|24, Artist Series, or Pro Series consoles and control surfaces
• Get total flexibility—work with Mac or Windows, Pro Tools HD or third-party software, and more

HD MADI
Expand your Pro Tools HDworkflow to integrate with MADI-equipped devices—including routers and digital mixing consoles—with the all-digital HD MADI interface. The perfect solution for integrating Pro Tools|HD into post-production and broadcast environments, HD MADI gives you great connection flexibility, fuss-free use through built-in sample rate conversion, and the ability to send and receive up to 64 channels of audio between your Pro Tools setup and MADI devices up to 2 km (1.24 miles) away—all with a single rack unit interface.

FEATURES:

• Send and receive up to 64 audio streams between Pro Tools|HD and other MADI devices
• Maintain maximum audio fidelity, with up to 24-bit, 192 kHz sample rate support
• Gain connection and routing flexibility through optical and coaxial connections:
• 2 MADI inputs (optical and coaxial)
• 2 MADI outputs (simultaneous optical and coaxial)
• Forget having to match sample rates, thanks to built-in SRC on all I/O channels
• Sync to an external clock through dedicated BNC Word Clock and XLR AES/EBU connections when using SRC on output
• Completely integrates with Pro Tools|HD for full input, output, and routing control
• Compact 1U rack-mountable design overcomes space limitations