Your personal, professional audio production studio

Showcase your talent—from first note to final mix. Designed for musicians and audio post pros, Pro Tools | Quartet makes it easy to create and mix music and movie/TV soundtracks. Discover infinite creative possibilities with Pro Tools software. Connect your entire studio to your computer for recording. Plus, get a free year of Pro Tools upgrades and two additional studio-essential plug-ins included at no extra charge. Don’t blend in—stand out from the crowd with Pro Tools | Quartet.

FEATURES

Software features

Create with power

With Pro Tools, you can compose, record, edit and mix professional music and audio productions easily. Work smarter and faster with advanced tools, including VCA Masters and extended metering. Experience exceptional recording and playback performance. Plus, you can play HD video right in the timeline, making it easy to create music and audio for video. You can even work with and collaborate on projects created in other audio applications too.

Make music—virtually

No instrument? No problem. Get access to a wide range of virtual instruments, plus full MIDI and notation tools, to compose the parts you need. Lay down beats with the drum machine, drum samples, or loops. Add real-sounding bass, guitar, piano, and other accompaniments. And layer in a variety of other sounds to build out your song—from orchestral instruments to sound effects. Making music has never been more fun.

Edit and enhance tracks

Create the perfect mix with ease. Punch in and out of recordings. Change or fix tempo, time and pitch. Comp together tracks to create flawless performances. Accelerate mixing tasks using powerful automation. And polish tracks with a wide variety of effects and sound processing plug-ins—from high-quality reverbs and EQ, to guitar amp emulators and dynamics.

Take control of your mix

Interact with your recording and monitoring sessions in a number of ways with Pro Tools IO Control software. Access the mixer software for ultra low-latency monitoring while recording. Enable phantom power, soft Limit and phase invert (polarity) on inputs. You can even access and control various features directly from your Quartet interface or any Artist Series controller.

Get two extra plug-ins on us

When you purchase Pro Tools | Quartet, you’ll also receive your choice of two incredible Avid plug-ins—one Tier 2 high-quality plug-in and one Tier 3 premium plug-in. Whether you want to smooth, improve, shape, warm up, beef up, or dirty up your mixes, these plug-ins will give you the power you need to take your production to the next level.

Maximize your creativity

In addition to your two chosen plug-ins, you also get a collection of over 70 AAX virtual instruments, effects, sound-processing and utility plug-ins. This provides you with an expansive sonic canvas and boundless resources to create without limits. Plus, you can expand your creative palette even more with over 1,000 64-bit AAX plug-ins available from Avid and other top audio developers.

Hardware features

Sound amazing

Pro Tools | Quartet features cutting-edge technology that delivers a difference you can hear. From audio recordings to plug-ins and virtual instruments, every facet of your mix is rendered in detail through state-of-the-art A/D and D/A conversion. And with its world-class mic preamps and professional-level I/O, you get the legendary sound quality you need to deliver the best mixes possible.

Achieve rich sonic fidelity

Retain your original audio source’s full impact, warmth, and dimension with dynamically optimized mic preamps. Featuring Apogee’s Advanced Stepped Gain Architecture, these preamps provide superior bandwidth, ultra-low noise and up to 75 dB of transparent gain. You also get protection against digital distortion, enabling you to optimize recordings with several more decibels of apparent loudness.

Capture every detail

Record multiple vocal and instrument performances in studio-quality 24-bit/192 kHz audio resolution. With Pro Tools | Quartet, you can capture up to four analog sources and up to eight digital sources simultaneously. And monitor your mix in stereo or 5.1 surround using the six line/speaker outputs and stereo headphone output. Or send sound to outboard gear for further processing.