Music creation platform Splice has built-in its pattern library with Avid’s Professional Instruments digital audio workstation, making thousands and thousands of loops, sound results and one-shots out there to the artists and producers who use the favored music-making instrument.
The concept is to hurry up the music-making course of by eliminating the necessity to swap between apps when including samples to a music challenge.
The brand new Professional Instruments 2025.6 will enable subscribers to entry round 2,500 samples without spending a dime, with the remainder out there by means of a month-to-month subscription charge.
“Placing Splice immediately into the inventive workflow is core to our mission,” Splice SVP of Content material Kenny Ochoa mentioned in an announcement 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 supplies a extra highly effective atmosphere for creating music – giving customers the power to rapidly discover the right sound whereas staying of their inventive movement,” mentioned Kenna Hilburn, SVP, Product at Avid.
The brand new Professional Instruments model additionally rolls out a brand new AI-powered speech-to-text instrument that enables editors to go looking audio recordsdata in a session for speech and lyric info. The instrument 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 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 supplies 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 attainable partly by the capital injection that Avid bought from its $1.4-billion all-cash acquisition by personal fairness agency Symphony Know-how Group (STG) in 2023.
Based in 1987, Avid is among the most outstanding names in video and audio enhancing know-how. 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 Yr, Document of the Yr, 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 in recent times, 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 immediately from their telephones.
The corporate not too long ago mentioned it hit practically 350 million downloads of its pattern packs in 2024.Music Enterprise Worldwide
