The ultimate professional virtual instrument collection designed and optimized for Pro Tools.

Supersize your sound with the Pro Tools Instrument Expansion Pack, the ultimate professional virtual instrument collection for Pro Tools. Featuring the latest, more powerful versions of all five groundbreaking virtual instruments—Structure, Strike, Velvet, Transfuser, and Hybrid—the Pro Tools Instrument Expansion Pack gives you practically every musical instrument imaginable at your fingertips at an unbelievable price.

Gain more features and functionality than ever before to create richly compelling music easily. Dive into the massive 55GB of samples, loops, and sound generators—including over 16.5GB of all-new content—to lay down anything from bottom-thumpin' grooves to refined orchestral passages and everything in between. Experience the amazing sounds, playability, and feel of best-in-breed instruments that are designed and optimized for Pro Tools. And with a truly affordable price, the Pro Tools Instrument Expansion Pack makes the entire A.I.R. virtual instrument collection more accessible than ever.

All five RTAS virtual instruments in the Pro Tools Instrument Expansion Pack are designed and optimized for Pro Tools, offering deep integration with the software far beyond any other virtual instrument. Discover the many unique features of each instrument and get inspired by the 55GB of high-quality sound content, enabling you to easily compose the simplest ditties to fully realized songs and music scores.

If you're considering even two of these virtual instruments, you'll want to take note that you can get all five instruments for about the same price—or less—with this pack. That's like getting three instruments free.

The Pro Tools Instrument Expansion Pack includes the following instruments:
Structure - Professional Sampler Workstation
Structure redefines the art of sampling, allowing you to freely create, sculpt, edit, and refine nearly any sound imaginable, from simple acoustic instruments to highly complex soundscapes.

The latest Structure 1.1 sampler comes with 17.5GB of high-quality content, including 5GB of new orchestral sounds, Nashville Signature drum kits, and a custom grand piano. Create ultra-realistic orchestral performances with special new MIDI control features, take advantage of new KONTAKT 3 and Giga sample format support, gain new EXS modulation matrix support, and enjoy new database enhancements for optimal usability.

Strike - The Ultimate Virtual Drummer
Strike is a revolutionary instrument plug-in that makes it easy to create professional drum performances with uncanny realism and unbelievable human feel. Pick an acoustic or electric kit or instrument—or build a kit from your own samples/sounds—and tell your drummer how to play.

The latest Strike 1.5 instrument includes new features and more content (30GB total) to provide you with even more beat versatility. Use your own sounds with new WAV and AIFF sample import, gain more efficiency with the enhanced Style editor, discover over 10GB of new drum kits and percussion elements, explore 55 new styles (for a total of 205 styles), and more.

Velvet - Vintage Electric Pianos
Whether you're inspired by '60s soul, '70s classic rock, or '80s "glassy" sounds, Velvet delivers stunningly realistic emulations of your favorite electric pianos, from vintage classics to a massively popular digital synth.

The latest Velvet 1.3 e-pianos plug-in features a new reverb effects module with three reverb types (Ambience, Spring, and Room) and introduces nine new FM tines that deliver unique sonic characteristics, including classic '80s-inspired "glassy" digital piano sounds.

Transfuser - The Ultimate Groove Creator
Transfuser is an award-winning real-time loop, phrase, and groove creator that lets you easily create, manipulate, and perform music on the fly. It comes with 4GB of high-quality drum sounds and loops to get your started, or toss in your own loop library content.

The latest Transfuser 1.3 workstation opens up even more sonic possibilities than ever before, adding a new bass module inspired by a classic bass line synth, 1.6 GB of new audio content for a total of nearly 4 GB of included loops and sounds, and a 6-band parametric EQ that lets you accurately perform frequency surgery on your sounds.

Hybrid — High-definition Synthesizer For sound buffs who love to get their hands dirty, Hybrid combines the warmth of classic analog waveforms with digital wavetables, enabling you to re-create sounds you remember, or create something no one's heard before.

The latest Hybrid 1.6 synth delivers a new Multi-Square waveform to generate even more unique sounds; introduces Blue, White, Mod, and Crackle waveforms to the noise oscillator to offer more texture versatility; and includes 256 all-new patches for fast and easy sound production in the studio or on stage.

Digidesign Pro Tools Instrument Expansion Pack Features:

• Play and customize virtually any instrument sound with the Structure sampler workstation
• Whip up professional drum performances with ease using Strike, the ultimate virtual drummer
• Add some vintage flavor using emulations of '60s, '70s, and '80s electric pianos in Velvet
• Throw together rad loop-based grooves fast with Transfuser and reclaim your musical identity
• Dare to dream up your own sounds (or re-create your favorites) with the Hybrid synthesizer
• The Pro Tools Instrument Expansion Pack comes with 55 GB of audio content compressed into a space-saving 33 GB, using proprietary lossless compression, for the entire software installation The instruments dynamically decompress any content you load in real time, as needed

Add these 5 innovative instruments to your Pro Tools palette and get inspired. Order today!

Digidesign Pro Tools Instrument Expansion Pack Specifications:

• System Requirements
• Mac
• Qualified Intel-based Mac running Mac OS X 10.5.x or 10.6.x (Intel only)
• Pro Tools|HD, Pro Tools LE, or Pro Tools M-Powered system running Pro Tools 8.0 or higher software
• 1GB RAM (2GB RAM highly recommended)
• 33GB of free hard drive space (for full installation)
• iLok USB Smart Key (plus, Internet access and a free iLok.com account for authorization)
  
  Windows
• Qualified Windows Vista- or Windows XP-based computer
• Pro Tools|HD, Pro Tools LE, or Pro Tools M-Powered system running Pro Tools 8.0 or higher software
• 1GB RAM (2GB RAM highly recommended)
• 33GB of free hard drive space (for full installation)
• iLok USB Smart Key (plus, Internet access and a free iLok.com account)