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 accessible 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 mission.
The brand new Professional Instruments 2025.6 will enable subscribers to entry round 2,500 samples without spending a dime, with the remainder accessible via a month-to-month subscription price.
“Placing Splice straight into the artistic workflow is core to our mission,” Splice SVP of Content material Kenny Ochoa mentioned 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 have the ability to 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 mentioned, eliminating the necessity to swap between apps and manually import Splice samples into Professional Instruments. Customers will then have the ability to drag the pattern again into their session.
“Whether or not producers and artists are sketching out concepts, constructing out tracks, or making use of ultimate touches, Professional Instruments’ Splice integration gives a extra highly effective atmosphere for creating music – giving customers the flexibility to rapidly discover the proper sound whereas staying of their artistic circulation,” mentioned 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 info. The device shows textual content alongside the related clip, rushing up the navigation course of.
“The response from each the postproduction and music communities has been extremely constructive,” Hilburn mentioned. “Speech-to-text is a serious 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 ultimate touches, Professional Instruments’ Splice integration gives 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 potential partly by the capital injection that Avid obtained from its $1.4-billion all-cash acquisition by non-public fairness agency Symphony Know-how Group (STG) in 2023.
Based in 1987, Avid is likely one of the most outstanding 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, File of the 12 months, and Greatest Immersive Audio Album.
For Splice, the Professional Instruments integration comes just a few months after it acquired digital instrument library Spitfire Audio in what the Monetary Instances 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 in recent times, together with Splice Mic, launched earlier this 12 months on its cellular app, which permits customers to document vocals over instrumentals made within the app.
Since 2022, varied 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 mentioned it hit practically 350 million downloads of its pattern packs in 2024.Music Enterprise Worldwide
