Avid Announces New Pro Tools Release with More Partner Integrations and MIDI Enhancements

Avid announced the release of Pro Tools 2025.6, an update that expands both music creation and post-production tools. The update introduces MIDI improvements, AI-powered Speech-to-Text conversion to accelerate dialogue and music editing, an expanded Melodyne ARA ecosystem to streamline vocal production, more tightly integrated ADR and reconform workflows, and a new in-app dashboard. The update also introduces a new Splice integration, which brings the world’s largest royalty-free sample library directly to the Pro Tools environment.

More than fifty prominent music companies, associations, and institutions globally have added their support to the “Principles for Music Creation with AI” manifesto. Introduced by Roland Corporation and Universal Music Group (UMG) in March 2024, these Principles are a series of clarifying statements relating to the responsible use of AI in music creation, aiming to protect the essence of music — its human spirit. Newly supporting organizations include NAMM, Native Instruments, Focusrite, Waves, LANDR, Eventide, GPU Audio, and many more.

iZotope introduced its new generation of mixing and mastering software with the joint release of Neutron 2 mixing console and Ozone 8 complete mastering suite, plus the Music Production Suite. Combining over fifteen years of innovations with new machine learning and inter-plugin communication, the new software tools boast innovative workflows, and groundbreaking visual and analysis tools, creating completely new ways of working.