
The other audio trick that Carbon is hiding behind it’s very stylishly designed front panel is the ability to run Avid and third party AAX DSP plug-ins using what Avid are calling their Hybrid Engine. It’s all their waiting for your creativity. In short, you are not going to be left wanting for processors to tweak and hone your sound. The McDSP 6050 Ultimate Channel Strip, UVI Model D and Falcon, Native Instruments Vintage Organs, Embody Immerse Virtual Studio and a 5.4 Gb sample and loop library.
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As well as a one year perpetual licence for Pro Tools, you get the full Avid Complete plug-in bundle as well as premium AAX plug-ins including the Arturia Rev PLATE-140, Brainworx bx_masterdesk, bx-Purple Audio MC77 compressor, bx_rockrack and bx_console N. What Else Comes With Pro Tools Carbon?Ĭarbon also ships with a vast array of 118 extra plug-in goodies. A footswitch jack and a pair of ethernet sockets.Īll in all, enough connectivity to make Carbon the central hub of your studio or production space. A pair of BNC connectors for Word Clock sync. High quality TRS outputs for your monitors. On the back of Carbon we also find a pair of 25 pin D-Sub connector offering 8 channels of live level I/O. This is clearly more than just a nod back to the True-Z input from the Eleven Rack that made that unit feel so good to play though. We then find 6 1/4 inch TRS instrument inputs again with the variable impedance switching. The mic pres are an ultra-transparent padless design with the ability to vary their input impedance to best match the microphone or recording tone you are going for. Simply connect a Cat5e or Cat6 cable from the first port on the rear panel of Carbon to the ethernet port on your Mac, using an approved Apple Thunderbolt to Ethernet adaptor if your Mac does not have a built in network port.Ĭarbon offers 8 mic/line inputs over XLR/TRS combination jacks.
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Carbon connects to your Mac computer (running Mac OS Catalina 10.15.6 or later) via the AVB audio over IP standard so you won’t find a USB or Thunderbolt port on the front, back or sides of the chassis. The new Pro Tools Carbon is the 1U centre to your recording, mixing or mastering work flow, offering up to 25 inputs and 34 simultaneous audio outputs.
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So if you are a professional singer, song writer, high-end Project Studio owner, or band with a passion for recording and you are looking to raise your recording “game”, or maybe you are currently running an older HD TDM system and you what to upgrade, read on to find out all you need to know about the new Avid Pro Tools Carbon interface and the Pro Tools Hybrid Engine.

And for the first time since the highly acclaimed Eleven Rack over 12 years ago, Pro Tools Carbon is squarely aimed at the music creation sector rather than post production. However, in the past 18 months Avid have re-entered the hardware sector in a big way, first with the MTRX Studio and now with the 1U Pro Tools Carbon interface. Even when they have released new Avid branded products like MTRX, the 2U replacement to the HD IO series of interfaces, these were a re-brand of the stunning DAD AX32 rather than fresh, from the ground up Avid creations.


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In recent years Avid, the company behind creative tools such as Media Composer, Sibelius and Pro Tools, have concentrated on their software offerings and not so much on their professional audio hardware.
