Melodyne can be applied to entire tracks at once or simply used in a clip-by-clip manner. Pro Tools is like a massive Swiss Army knife when it comes to both the sheer number of workflows and the varied types of users we support, so enabling users to choose how to work with this powerful tool was paramount in how we integrated ARA.

The primary workflow benefit from this implementation lies in the deep integration with Pro Tools, which removes the necessity to round-trip audio, therefore creating a more holistic experience for the user. Our initial implementation of ARA with Pro Tools utilizes Celemony’s powerful pitch-and-time solution, Melodyne. With more and more plugin manufacturers supporting ARA in their portfolios, the future remains quite bright for this powerful audio workflow extension. The second version of ARA (ARA 2) was introduced in 2018, and is the version Pro Tools utilizes for its integration. Location, pitch, tempo, and rhythm are all examples of some of the data that can be exchanged. ARA allows an enabled plugin to exchange a greater amount of audio information with a digital audio workstation (DAW) and makes for more streamlined and efficient workflows due the increased types of data passed between the DAW and plugin. It is a data-exchange extension for audio plugins, which was co-developed by Celemony, the makers of Melodyne, and PreSonus in 2011. ARA is an acronym which stands for Audio Random Access.

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