Longtime partners Avid and Dolby Labs are revolutionizing how you can distribute your music by introducing support for Dolby Atmos® Music distribution via Avid Play. Independent artist, producers, and record labels can now distribute immersive music mixes in Dolby Atmos® to a global audience while retaining 100% of their royalties all from the Avid Play app.

With the ever increasing number of plug-ins available for Pro Tools, managing your workflow has become a very important reality in modern session work. It's common in today's DAW rich world that you might wind up with a massive collection of plugins. Understanding how to organize and manage you plug-in library can help you for mixing, music creation, composition, post-production, etc...

For several generations of Pro Tools, there have been new features introduced to help you with your workflow. One of these features is Track Bounce, which allows you to export audio stems of individual outputs from your session. At first glance this may appear to copy existing features already available in Pro Tools, however this features allows you options not found in other export options. Let's take a look at how you can use Track Bounce in Pro Tools.

Review this Tutorial & Video on how to create Effects & Returns in Pro Tools. In the context of a mixing, people like to hear effects for a variety of reasons. Maybe a little reverb and some delay are used to create a sense of natural space for a vocal. It could even be to add distortion to guitars, make a hand-clap echo in time with the rhythm, or make your voice sound like a robot. 

In this quick tutorial video, you'll learn how useful, and easy it is to edit with Clip Groups in Pro Tools. Clip Groups allow you to treat entire sections of audio and MIDI as one chunk of data, as opposed to the individual pieces. For example: copy/paste/move an entire section of a vocal without having to select each individual clip. Watch the video to learn more.

In this episode of A Songwriters Journey, produced by ProMedia Training, we talk to Jeff Cohen about his personal story as a multi-platinum award winning songwriter, music executive, and artist. Jeff's songs have been cut by artists such as Sugarland, The Band Perry, Josh Groban, Macy Gray, and many, many more. Jeff has also written theme music for TV shows and motion pictures such as Dawson's Creek, Paw Patrol in which he won a BMI award, I Married A Princess, Jack And Jill, etc. Enjoy this 3-part video with one of the most prolific songwriters in modern music.

If you're an artist looking to distribute music, AvidPlay (by AVID, the makers of Pro Tools), is one of the easiest ways to get your original songs onto every major music platform on the planet. With easy to use tools, distribution splits, QR codes, 100% of earnings, and a multitude of other features, AvidPlay makes it easy for you to have your own record label. This step-by-step guide with video takes you through the process of releasing material with AvidPlay.

With the challenges faced in modern audio production, Mix Engineers are using innovative tools to allow them to stream mixes live, directly to a client for Mix Feedback. In this article, we'll take a look at several options you can use with Pro Tools that allow you to live-stream mixes to your clients directly, even to a web browser.

All software has Easter Eggs, or hidden features and Pro Tools is no different. As one user recently discovered, you can use Emojis in the naming of your tracks. Although the feature is only available on Macintosh, it allows you to have more personalized control over your session, files, and organization.

The release of Reason 11.3 introduces a whole new way to work. You can now use the Reason Rack as a plugin in Pro Tools. The same instruments, processors, and effects you Love in Reason, are now available as a plugin directly on your Pro Tools Instrument tracks. You even get the virtual cables on the back of the rack! Watch below to learn about the features in the Reason Rack for Pro Tools.