Splice strikes partnership with Avid so as to add pattern library to Professional Instruments DAW
Music creation platform Splice has built-in its pattern library with Avid’s Professional Instruments digital audio workstation, making hundreds of thousands of loops, sound results and one-shots obtainable to the artists and producers who use the favored music-making device.
The thought is to hurry up the music-making course of by eliminating the necessity to swap between apps when including samples to a music undertaking.
The brand new Professional Instruments 2025.6 will enable subscribers to entry round 2,500 samples totally free, with the remainder obtainable by means of a month-to-month subscription price.
“Placing Splice straight into the inventive workflow is core to our mission,” Splice SVP of Content material Kenny Ochoa stated in a press release on Wednesday (June 18).
“This integration makes it simpler than ever for Professional Instruments customers to entry our AI-powered discovery and world-class sound library – proper the place they’re making music.”
“This integration makes it simpler than ever for Professional Instruments customers to entry our AI-powered discovery and world-class sound library – proper the place they’re making music.”
Kenny Ochoa, Splice
Professional Instruments customers will be capable of drag audio clips from the Professional Instruments timeline into Splice’s AI-powered ‘Search with Sound’ panel to match samples by rhythm, key and tempo, Avid stated, eliminating the necessity to swap between apps and manually import Splice samples into Professional Instruments. Customers will then be capable of drag the pattern again into their session.
“Whether or not producers and artists are sketching out concepts, constructing out tracks, or making use of closing touches, Professional Instruments’ Splice integration offers a extra highly effective atmosphere for creating music – giving customers the flexibility to rapidly discover the right sound whereas staying of their inventive stream,” stated Kenna Hilburn, SVP, Product at Avid.
The brand new Professional Instruments model additionally rolls out a brand new AI-powered speech-to-text device that permits editors to look audio recordsdata in a session for speech and lyric data. The device shows textual content alongside the related clip, dashing up the navigation course of.
“The response from each the postproduction and music communities has been extremely optimistic,” Hilburn stated. “Speech-to-text is a significant step ahead, simplifying ADR, enhancing, and dialogue workflows.”
“Whether or not producers and artists are sketching out concepts, constructing out tracks, or making use of closing touches, Professional Instruments’ Splice integration offers a extra highly effective atmosphere for creating music.”
Kenna Hilburn, Avid
MBW understands that the Splice integration and different new options within the newest Professional Instruments model had been powered by R&D made doable partly by the capital injection that Avid obtained from its $1.4-billion all-cash acquisition by personal fairness agency Symphony Expertise Group (STG) in 2023.
Based in 1987, Avid is likely one of the most distinguished names in video and audio enhancing expertise. On its “about” web page, the corporate boasts that Avid DAW customers scooped up quite a few awards on the 2024 Grammys, together with Album of the 12 months, Report of the 12 months, and Finest Immersive Audio Album.
For Splice, the Professional Instruments integration comes a number of months after it acquired digital instrument library Spitfire Audio in what the Monetary Occasions described as a $50 million deal. The deal marked Splice’s entry into the music plugin market.
Splice was valued at practically $500 million in 2021, following a $55 million funding spherical led by Goldman Sachs, and the corporate has been busy rolling out new options lately, together with Splice Mic, launched earlier this 12 months on its cellular app, which permits customers to file vocals over instrumentals made within the app.
Since 2022, numerous variations of Splice’s cellular app have featured a AI-powered instruments that allow creators to browse, audition, and craft music straight from their telephones.
The corporate just lately stated it hit practically 350 million downloads of its pattern packs in 2024.Music Enterprise Worldwide
