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04 Feb Avid Elite Reseller for Professional Audio | Academia for Education
Academia are excited to announce that we have been appointed as an Avid Elite Reseller for Professional Audio. Avid only award Elite status to resellers who can offer high-end professional services, system integration and technical support.
Thirty years ago, Avid broke new ground by reimagining content creation. Their revolutionary nonlinear editor was the first to digitize video content. It redefined the media industry and is still the gold standard.
Today, Avid is reshaping the entire media value chain with powerful technology for creating, managing, storing, distributing and monetizing film, television and music. The tools and platforms empower more than a million users and thousands of media enterprises to tell powerful stories and build better businesses.
As well as our Elite Reseller status, Avid have also announced the upcoming availability of new hardware and software products to look out for.
Pro Tools | MTRX Studio – Coming Soon
Your Studio Centerpiece
Pro Tools | MTRX Studio delivers high-quality I/O, extensive routing possibilities, and premium monitoring all in one audio interface, enabling you to consolidate multiple devices in your signal chain. From recording and monitoring, to routing audio across multiple rooms and devices, tuning speakers, creating monitor profiles, and folding down mixes, it’s the ideal centrepiece for professional music and audio post facilities of all sizes.
HDX Thunderbolt 3 Systems – Coming Soon
Get Everything You Need in One, Easy Bundle
Avid announces cutting edge Thunderbolt 3-enabled Pro Tools, DSP, and I/O solutions for the most demanding workflows. Pro Tools | HDX is now Thunderbolt 3-compatible, enabling you to bring the industry’s most powerful DSP-accelerated audio production solution to your desktop or rack. Easily configure a totally self-contained HDX system with the new Thunderbolt 3 chassis—designed by Sonnet—that can house both an HDX card and a Mac mini. And complete your studio with an HDX turnkey solution bundle that provides the cutting-edge DSP and I/O pairing you need. Already own HDX? Upgrade your system with the Thunderbolt 3 chassis, specifically designed for your studio.
New bundles will include:
- Pro Tools | HDX Thunderbolt 3 HD 16×16 D
- Pro Tools | HDX Thunderbolt 3 HD OMNI
- Pro Tools | HDX Thunderbolt 3 HD 16×16 A
- Pro Tools | HDX Thunderbolt 3 MTRX Studio
- Pro Tools | HDX Thunderbolt 3 HD 8x8x8
Pro Tools 2020 – Coming Soon
Creative Session Organization with Folder Tracks
Pro Tools 2020 delivers Folder Tracks, enabling more flexible and creative session organization. Tracks can be grouped in up to nine folder levels that can be collapsed and color-coded for easier navigation. Bring better focus to large productions and free your mind to work more productively without the distraction of numerous tracks and complexity on screen.
Sibelius 2020
Ensure Beautiful, Print-Perfect Scores Automatically
Sibelius 2020 introduces new auto-optimizing features that ensure your score looks perfect as you create it, so you can spend more time on your music rather than editing and formatting your score. It also comes with a fully refreshed set of House Styles to give your scores a more modern or classical look. In addition—and in partnership with Berklee School of Music—Sibelius includes many new accessibility enhancements that enable partially sighted and blind users to manipulate every aspect of their score.
Contact the Academia pro audio team to discuss these new releases and what they mean for your facilities and workflow – creative@academia.co.uk or 01992 702190