DIGIDESIGN STRUCTURE

Professional sampler workstation
for Pro Tools
Developed by the acclaimed Digidesign® Advanced Instrument Research (A.I.R.) group and optimized exclusively for Pro Tools®, Structure™ is a powerful RTAS® virtual instrument that redefines the art of sampling, allowing you to freely create, sculpt, and refine everything from simple acoustic instruments to highly complex soundscapes with amazing ease — in real time.



Structure comes with an extensive library of high-quality sounds from A.I.R. and EastWest (including a 30-day trial of Goliath — Structure Edition), welcomes the use of your own sample libraries, and lets you create your own samples directly from your Pro Tools sessions via drag-and-drop. It also features an impressive universal sound engine with support for an unlimited number of nestable patches, optimally manages sample streaming along with Pro Tools playback, and includes a powerful multi-effects processing engine. Whether you’re a musician, sound designer, audio engineer, or post-production editor, Structure offers superior playability and performance.

With its incredible musical playability and rock-solid performance and reliability, Structure™ is destined to become the core instrument in your music and post-production projects.

Features

• Professional RTAS® sampler designed and optimized exclusively for Pro Tools delivers superior performance and unprecedented reliability
  
• Includes comprehensive, premium factory sound libraries from EastWest and A.I.R., including Quantum Leap Orchestral Elements, plus a 30-day trial of EastWest’s 40 GB professional sound library, Goliath — Structure Edition
  
• Use your existing SampleCell, Kontakt 1 and 2, and EXS24 sound libraries* (supports up to 8-channel interleaved samples)
  
• Drag-and-drop regions from within Pro Tools directly into the sampler for easy custom sound creation
  
• Sample engine tightly couples with the Pro Tools engine for superior playback performance**
  
• Supports sample playback via a choice of disk streaming or RAM-only for optimal operation
  
• Powerful database and integrated file browser make finding sounds and managing them easy
  
• Integrated stereo and surround multi-effects processing engine offers over 20 effects types — including stereo and surround convolution reverbs — and hundreds of effects presets
  
• Universal sound engine provides support for an unlimited number of nestable patches, enabling you to easily create highly complex sounds
  
• Supports up to 128-level multitimbral playback per Structure instance and an unlimited number of parts, audio effects, and MIDI effects per patch
  
• Fully resizable built-in Sample Editor enables fast and easy waveform editing and sample mapping
  
• Supports all common bit depths, sample rates, and surround formats — up to 24-bit / 192 kHz / 7.1 surround
  
• Surround/stereo main outputs and up to 31 auxiliary outputs allow discrete source mixing and signal processing
  
• Six freely assignable, context-dependent Smart Knobs enable fast access to the most important sound sculpting parameters
  
• Powerful hands-on, real-time control of the sampler using a Digidesign control surface, or MIDI controller via MIDI Learn
  
• Integrated REX player allows you to use and manipulate REX 1 and 2 files

Which version of Structure™ is right for you? While all of them deliver the same unprecedented performance and reliability, there are other similarities and differences.

Features	Structure	Structure LE	Structure Free
General
Included sound libraries	Premium factory sound libraries from A.I.R. and EastWest (nearly 20 GB), including Quantum Leap Orchestral Elements, plus a 30-day trial of EastWest’s 40 GB Goliath—Structure Edition library	Professional sound library from A.I.R. (3 GB)	Starter sound library from A.I.R. (over 885 MB)
Supported audio formats	All common audio file types up to 24-bit, 192 kHz, 7.1 surround	All common audio file types up to 24-bit, 192 kHz, 7.1 surround	All common audio file types up to 24-bit, 192 kHz, stereo sound
Supported sample formats	Structure and unencrypted SampleCell (1 & 2), Kontakt (1 & 2), and EXS24	Structure and unencrypted SampleCell (1 & 2), Kontakt (1 & 2), and EXS24	Structure and unencrypted SampleCell (1 & 2), Kontakt (1 & 2), and EXS24
Imported sample support	Full support—can edit and map samples	Limited—import only	Limited—import only
Drag-and-drop sample import from Pro Tools	Yes	Yes	Yes
Integrated database and browser	Yes	Yes	Browser only
Real-time control	6 Smart Knobs, plus full MIDI Learn functionality	6 Smart Knobs, plus full MIDI Learn functionality	6 Smart Knobs, plus limited MIDI Learn functionality
Maximum number of Structure instances per Pro Tools session	Unlimited	Unlimited	4
Save functionality	Full	Full	Saves the state of the plug-in with sessions
Sound Engine
Multitimbral support	128 channels	8 channels	4 channels
Maximum polyphony per Structure instance	Unlimited	256	64
Maximum polyphony per part	Unlimited	32	16
Main outputs	Stereo/Surround	Stereo/Surround	Stereo
Auxiliary outputs	31 stereo	3 stereo	None
Sample Editing and Effects
Integrated sample and mapping editor	Yes—fully resizable	No	No
Patch and part editing	Full parameter set	Basic set of controls for patch and part editing	Basic set of controls for patch editing (no part editing)
Multi-effects processing engine	Includes over 20 professional stereo and surround effects algorithms—including convolution reverb—and hundreds of effects presets	Includes over 20 professional stereo and surround effects algorithms—including convolution reverb—and hundreds of effects presets	Includes over 20 professional stereo effects algorithms—including convolution reverb
Effects integration	Add and edit an unlimited number of effects in any patch	Add and edit an unlimited number of effects in any patch	Playback only—can’t add or edit effects
Effects routing	Global effects page features 4 internal effects busses with 4 effects inserts per bus, and a master insert bus	Global effects page features 4 internal effects busses with 4 effects inserts per bus, and a master insert bus	N