Avid Pro Tools 9 + Mbox Pro System

Avid Pro Tools 9 + Mbox Pro System features the all new Mbox Pro Firewire audio interface and Pro Tools 9 recording software. Avid Pro Tools 9 + Mbox Pro System delivers a complete computer recording package that provides more flexibiliy than even before at an incredible price. Pro Tools 9 + Mbox Pro offers an advanced hardware and software bundle that delivers the best of both worlds, the most advanced and trusted creation or audio production software on the planet in Avid Pro Tools 9, and a professional-grade, portable hardware interface with the Mbox Pro.

Avid Pro Tools 9 is the latest version of the Pro Tools software recording platform, it redefines the world’s most popular, most advanced music and audio production platform with an all-new, completely re-designed, open version of Pro Tools software, giving you what you asked for and so much more. Work with an audio interface or without. Create bigger, better-sounding mixes with more tracks, Automatic Delay Compensation, and other pro features included as standard. With Pro Tools 9, you can open your workflow to projects created in other audio and video software and to the entire Avid Artist Series and Pro Series (formerly Euphonix) console or controller line. Pro Tools 9 delivers the ability to compose, record, sequence, edit, and mix the way you want in more ways than ever.

Pro Tools Mbox Pro, delivers a complete, integrated, computer-based music creation and production system.The Mbox Pro Firewire interface introduces advanced recording technology for exceptional quality. A premium analog signal path and high-performance converters deliver pristine 24-bit, 192kHz converters deliver pristine sound.Stringent testing standards ensure rock-solid performance in the most demanding environments. The Mbox interface is packed with tons of advanced features that make it easy to get great results. Mbox Pro boasts the same professional-grade soft-clip limiter circuit found in Digidesign's high-end Pro Tools HD 192 I/O audio interface, so you can track much hotter signals without overloading the inputs and clipping. Built-in reverb helps you deliver more inspiring vocal and instrumental performances without taxing your computer processor. The integrated guitar tuner enables you to tune your guitar, bass, and other instruments directly from the interface. And a Pro Tools multi-function button makes it easy to access common software parameters like tap session tempo, start/stop record, and create a new track right from the front of the interface. With Mbox Pro, your sessions will move at the speed of your creativity.

With Pro Tools 9 and Mbox Pro bundle, customers get everything they need to create music and audio on their Mac or PC, all in one affordable bundle that offers incredible value. And they’ll always sound amazing, as Mbox interfaces were designed by the same team who created our top-of the-line Pro Tools HD Series interfaces, giving customers the sonic clarity of interfaces costing much more.

• Work the way you want - with your favorite Avid audio interface, third-party Core Audio/ASIO interface (up to 32 channels supported), or standalone
• Create bigger mixes with more simultaneous audio tracks - up to 96 or 192 voices
• Get coveted pro features such as multitrack Beat Detective, OMF/AAF/MXF interchange, DigiBase Pro, and full Import Session Data dialog as standard
• Create better-sounding, phase-accurate mixes with Automatic Delay Compensation
• Expand your hands-on control options with EUCON integration for Artist and Pro Series consoles/controllers
• Work with video more easily with the Time Code Ruler and variable stereo pan depths, and mix in surround with the updated 7.1 surround panner
• Create complex mixes with 256 internal busses, 160 aux tracks, and 512 total audio tracks
• Share your music mixes with anyone with included MP3 Export
• Compatible with most major audio software (Pro Tools LE, Logic, Live, Cubase, and more)
• FireWire connection
• Professional-grade circuitry and converters deliver exceptional audio performance
• Up to 24-bit, 192 kHz sample rates
• Soft-clip limiter lets you track hot signals without clipping - providing a classic overdriven tape saturation sound
• Built-in guitar tuner
• Onboard DSP offers flexible cue mixing and reverb effects
• Assignable Pro Tools multi-function button on interface gives you fast access to software functions
• Connect up to three pairs of monitors or do 5.1 surround mixing
• Hardware configuration:
  • 8 x 8 simultaneous channels of I/O
  • 4 mic inputs with 48 V phantom power and high pass filter (2 XLR/DI combo, 2 XLR)
  • 4 1/4" TRS line inputs
  • 2 unbalanced Alt line inputs (2 RCA, 1 mini 1/8”)
  • 6 1/4" TRS balanced line outputs
  • 2 discrete 1/4” stereo headphone outputs with separate volume controls
  • Stereo S/PDIF digital I/O
  • 1 MIDI input, 1 MIDI output
  • Word clock I/O
  • Monitor control section with Mono, Mute, Dim, Alt Source, and Speaker A/B/C switching controls
  • Dedicated monitor volume knob