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Avid Pro Tools | Carbon

$6,250.00

SKU: AVI-CARBON

Avid Pro Tools | Carbon

Avid Pro Tools | Carbon—Built to capture brilliance

A NEW BREED OF AUDIO INTERFACE FOR MUSIC PRODUCTION

Avid is introducing Pro Tools | Carbon — a breakthrough audio interface that represents a new chapter in the company’s history of innovative designs. Pro Tools | Carbon is aimed squarely at artists, producers, and engineers who are searching for tools that will inspire the creative process by streamlining their studio workflow. Avid presents Pro Tools | Carbon as a hybrid production system that merges native CPU with onboard HDX DSP acceleration to make Pro Tools more powerful than ever, and it comprises cutting-edge converters and eight pristine preamps to capture brilliance in stunning detail.

Seamless Pro Tools Integration

Pro Tools has been the DAW of choice for countless industry professionals and amateur recordists for decades, due in part to its intuitive, console-style workflow; expansive routing options; and timesaving production tools including Elastic Audio and Beat Detective. Pro Tools | Carbon optimizes the performance of this already formidable DAW with its hybrid engine, which allows you to use native CPU and HDX DSP processing simultaneously to enjoy latency-free, real-time processing during recording and mixdown.

Create Without Constraints

Pro Tools | Carbon comes equipped with eight HDX DSPs that empower you to create without constraints. Load up a host of virtual instruments, effects, and sound shapers without bogging down your CPU; and inspire performances by monitoring through effects or by printing them in real time with virtually no latency. And there’s no need to use an external application to take advantage of Pro Tools | Carbon’s latency-free monitoring — it works right from the DAW with the push of a button. Moreover, Pro Tools | Carbon includes a serious software package with 115 AAX DSP plug-ins from the Avid Complete Bundle, UVI’s Falcon sampler and synthesizer, virtual instruments from Native Instruments, Dave Hill’s HEAT harmonic enhancer, and a slew of hardware emulations, amp sims, and more from Plugin Alliance and McDSP. And, unlike many DSP plug-ins, AAX DSP plug-ins can be used both in DSP and native domains, meaning you can run them without having Carbon connected — a huge plus for remote collaboration!

 

Engineered for Sonic Excellence

Avid engineered every element of Pro Tools | Carbon to provide pristine sound quality with exceptional depth and detail. It all starts with four top-notch analog-to-digital converters per channel, each boasting an exceptional 126dB dynamic range to capture every nuance of a performance, from the quietest to the loudest passages, with negligible noise and coloration. Eight stellar preamps with four channels of variable impedance ensure you’re getting the most from your microphones — whether you’re using condensers, dynamics, or ribbons — guitars, basses, synths, drum machines, and more. And, if you would rather use some favored outboard gear, Pro Tools | Carbon gives you the option to bypass any preamp for an ultra-short signal path.

Plenty of I/O

Whether you’re working in a small project studio or in a large recording facility, Pro Tools | Carbon has the I/O you need. On top of its eight built-in preamps, Pro Tools | Carbon contains eight analog line inputs and outputs and 16 channels of digital I/O over ADAT, so you can easily expand your channel count as needed. Pro Tools | Carbon is an ideal interface for producers who are working in a hybrid studio setup, as it makes it easy to integrate your outboard gear. Additionally, it features four headphone outputs on the front panel — a handy addition when you’re recording small ensembles.

Connects via High-Bandwidth Ethernet

Ethernet is offering lots of possibilities when it comes to professional audio. With an eye toward the future, Avid forwent creating Pro Tools | Carbon as a USB or Thunderbolt interface. Rather, they opted to equip it with Ethernet connectivity based on the open-source AVB (Audio Video Bridging) protocol. Avid’s version of AVB offers vanishingly low latency and streams audio at 32-bit–float precision.

INPUTS

Combo mic/line inputs

8 balanced XLR/TRS with Variable Z (impedance) on inputs 5–8

DB25 line inputs

8 balanced via 25-pin D-sub

Instrument (Variable Z) inputs

2 unbalanced ¼-inch TS

Digital inputs

ADAT: 16 channels @ 44.1–96 kHz

ADAT: 8 channels @ 176.4–192 kHz

A/D CONVERSION

Mic preamps

Dynamic Range: 126 dB (A-weighted)

THD+N: -105 dB (0.00056%)

Frequency Response: 20 Hz–20 kHz, ±0.1 dB

EIN: -129 dB (A-weighted)

Line inputs

Dynamic Range: 125 dB (A-weighted)

THD+N: -103 dB (0.0007%)

Frequency Response: 20 Hz–20 kHz, ±0.1 dB

Line inputs (true bypass)

Dynamic Range: 126 dB (A-weighted)

THD+N: -114 dB (0.0002%)

Frequency Response: 20 Hz–20 kHz, ±0.1 dB

Instrument inputs

Dynamic Range: 125 dB (A-weighted)

THD+N: -103 dB (0.0007%)

Frequency Response: 20 Hz–20 kHz, ±0.1 dB

OUTPUTS

DB25 line outputs

8 balanced via 25-pin D-sub

Monitor outputs

2 balanced ¼-inch TRS

Headphone outputs

4 stereo ¼-inch TRS

Digital outputs

ADAT: 16 channels @ 44.1–96 kHz

ADAT: 8 channels @ 176.4–192 kHz

D/A CONVERSION

Line outputs

Dynamic Range: 120 dB (A-weighted)

THD+N: -110 dB (0.0003%)

Frequency Response: 20 Hz–20 kHz, ±0.1 dB

Monitor outputs

Dynamic Range: 120 dB (A-weighted)

THD+N: -110 dB (0.0003%)

Frequency Response: 20 Hz–20 kHz, ±0.1 dB

Headphone outputs

Power: 100 mW into 300 ohm; 200 mW into 32 ohm

Dynamic Range: 116 dB (A-weighted)

THD+N (32 ohm): -87 dB (0.0045%)

THD+N (300 ohm): -100 dB (0.001%)

Frequency Response: 20 Hz–20 kHz, ±0.1 dB

DSP ACCELERATION

HDX DSP

8 HDX DSP processors (2.8 GHz aggregated processing)

ADDITIONAL SPECIFICATIONS

Supported sample rates

44.1 kHz–192 kHz; 32-bit, 192 kHz max

Host connection

Ethernet

Power supply

Single (internal)

Chassis

1U 19-inch rack-mountable unit
Avid Pro Tools | Carbon