The Sound Board

Pro Tools® software version 2025.6 provides the following new features and enhancements:

Splice integration (a cloud-based music creation platform that provides millions of royalty-free one shots, loops, MIDI, and presets)

Transcription (speech to text) (Pro Tools Studio and Ultimate only)

Support for new integrated ARA plugins:
– Acon Digital Acoustica (includes Acoustica Essentials)
– NoiseWorks DynAssist (includes DynAssist Lite)

Drag and drop multiple audio clips to AAX plugins

Playlist improvements

MIDI improvements:
– Custom Key labels
– MIDI Operations tab in MIDI Editors
– MIDI Live mode

New MIDI plugins:
– TATAT by K-Devices

Miscellaneous improvements
– Improved Dashboard
– Dolby Atmos® improvements
– Host-based automation improvements
– Native support for AVE ARM
– Allow All-Track Mute option
– Integrated support for the Cue Pro plugin and application (Pro Tools Studio and Ultimate only)
– Integrated support for The Cargo Cult Matchbox 2.0 (Pro Tools Studio and Ultimate only)

https://resources.avid.com/SupportFiles ... 2025.6.pdf

New and Improved Features in EUCON2025.6

Avid Control, Dock, S1 and S3

Smarter Window Control for Workstation Displays
EUCON Client Monitoring (MCClient)
Soft Key Editor Copy/Paste Functionality
MIDI CC Control Support for Faders and Knobs on Dock, S1, and S3
Footswitch Update
Mackie Control Updates

https://resources.avid.com/SupportFiles ... 2025.6.pdf

Jeepers, the quality of the audio in the speech-to-text demonstration is ATROTIOUS. It's not like they are demonstrating a feature that will clean it up - it's just bloody awful for no reason.

I have a particular obsession with terrible quality audio in audio product adverts and tutorials.

More positively, the ability to control midi CCs over EuCon is a big deal. Cubase has had this all to itself since forever. Not sure if all DAWs with EuCon can make use of it, or if it's just Pro Tools.

I wondered if we might see Pro Tools 2025.6 today, after Avid Control 2025.6 for iOS was released last night.

As usual, there are some nice new features. I expect to use MIDI Live Mode and Speech-To-Text. I often do play ahead of the beat because of latency; and as a result, quantizing sometimes pulls notes in the wrong direction. In the past, I’ve often had to nudge things forward before quantizing. MIDI Live Mode should eliminate the need for that step. Speech-To-Text will be very helpful for dialog and Audible book editing.

I’m not happy about Splice being automatically downloaded with Pro Tools, however. As a Mac user, I didn’t want to pay an inflated price for my internal drive; so I didn’t buy a large internal drive. I don’t want to give up precious space for a feature I’m not going to use. I hope that the audio files are an optional download at least. If not, then I hope they can at least be jettisoned to an external drive.

Guy, I can see why the ability to control MIDI CCs over EuCon is a big deal for anyone using EuCon and MIDI. It’s long overdue.

Best,

Geoff