131st AES Convention 2011

[Geoff Grace]

Oh, and hi, Phil! It's good to see you online again. :wave: Best, Geoff

[scud133]

I'm guessing that throwing out old code is also part of the process of turning Pro Tools into a 64-bit application, and soon, I hope. The main thing that interests me so far in the new release is the expanded EUCON support. I don't yet have an Artist Control surface, but I'll probably end up buying one. I'll be interested in reading reports that share how well it's implemented. Best, Geoff

The next version is going to be 64bit. They're already phasing out the older hardware (the new HDX card isn't compatible with the old stuff) and the AAX format is 64bit ready. Avid is giving us this last release cycle (the PT10 era) before they're going to make all the old stuff obsolete. So this should stand as the last warning for people with dated gear and software.

[Phil O'Keefe]

Hi Geoff -- good to see you too. :wave: Hope you and yours have been well.

[MikeRivers]

PCI or PCI-e?

The Magma box supports PCIe. Sorry I wasn't clear on that, but it was close to bed time. They still didn't have it working today and think it was fried.

Yup - I remember running RAM Disks back in the 80s. You could create a 512k RAM disk on a 1040ST and anything you ran in there was lightening-fast. I've often wondered why, in this day and age of cheap RAM and Gigabytes of it, we weren't doing more with them.

Well, disks were a lot slower then. The first RAMdisks I used were on floppy-only computers.

I'm all for "more features" if they're things I need and can use, but it was already a major program with gobs of features... making it run more powerfully and efficiently, and refining it so that it works better is definitely something that I think a lot of users will appreciate. I also like the emphasis they seem to be putting on improved fidelity and disk handling too. I'm really looking forward to checking it out!

The thing that those of us who are less enthusiastic about the update aren't Pro Tools users. We wonder why Pro Tools users have put up so long without those features tthat they could have had with other DAWs. The answer, of course, has to do with business rather than technology. It's more important for some users to have Pro Tools than another DAW because it gets them work. Those who don't need to deal with outside clients or clients who don't do all their work in your studio can use whatever they want. But for transportability, Pro Tools is the common denominator.

[Geoff Grace]

The thing that those of us who are less enthusiastic about the update aren't Pro Tools users. We wonder why Pro Tools users have put up so long without those features tthat they could have had with other DAWs. The answer, of course, has to do with business rather than technology. It's more important for some users to have Pro Tools than another DAW because it gets them work. Those who don't need to deal with outside clients or clients who don't do all their work in your studio can use whatever they want. But for transportability, Pro Tools is the common denominator.

That's an important factor, but it's not the whole story.

Many of us--myself included--feel that Pro Tools is laid out in a more straightforward way and is therefore more intuitive to use than the competition. Its two-window model is uncluttered and elegant. It doesn't get in the way of the work. This is more important to us than the icing on the cake. But there's plenty of icing on the Pro Tools cake too--every DAW these days has more features than most people can keep track of.

Best,

Geoff

[Geoff Grace]

Hi Geoff -- good to see you too. :wave: Hope you and yours have been well.

Thanks, Phil. I hope the same for you and yours. :cool: Best, Geoff