Members Foxrock321 Posted January 30, 2010 Members Share Posted January 30, 2010 I am thinking of purcasing a home package of Pro-tools so I can record my own tracks for a band I play with. This way I can mail in my part instead of spending hours at the studio. I have seen an educational version of Pro Tools M Powered. My question to anyone is how much less do you get with the Ed. version than the full blown version. Is itworth spending the extra $$$, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members nerol1st Posted January 30, 2010 Members Share Posted January 30, 2010 Nothing man, there is no difference. Plus they don't block your future upgrade path like apple does with logic (logic education version doesn't allow you to upgrade to future versions, complete horse crap). You just get the benefit of being a student, it kicks ass! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members CME Posted February 1, 2010 Members Share Posted February 1, 2010 Actually I think the educational version may include the time code thing that other wise only comes with the dv toolkit or pthd. Don't quote me on this though. ;-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members nerol1st Posted February 1, 2010 Members Share Posted February 1, 2010 What time code thing? The SMPTE generator? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members CME Posted February 2, 2010 Members Share Posted February 2, 2010 Here is a page that describes the differences. Academic comes with Digitranslator and Time Code. I don't really know what all that means, but from what I understand that is part of what is included with the DV Toolkit. However it does say none of the Toolkits are compatible and some dialog boxes and set-up procedures are different. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members nerol1st Posted February 2, 2010 Members Share Posted February 2, 2010 Oh, lol. I don't have m powered. I bought the mbox 2 academic bundle. That's cool though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil O'Keefe Posted February 2, 2010 Share Posted February 2, 2010 Here is a page that describes the differences. Academic comes with Digitranslator and Time Code. I don't really know what all that means, but from what I understand that is part of what is included with the DV Toolkit. However it does say none of the Toolkits are compatible and some dialog boxes and set-up procedures are different. I've never used the academic version, but they appear to be similar to the normal versions. DV and MP toolkits won't work with it (so you can't expand it to 64 mono / stereo tracks - but 48 should be enough for "most people"), but since you get the Time Code (for SMPTE lock) and Digitranslator (for importing / exporting tracks to / from other DAW applications), and you can still use any plugins you want (Hybrid and all the other plugins that come with the bundles - although you'd have to pay extra for them and purchase them separately) you should be fine... and can save a few bucks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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