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Nashville is a world class recording environment and PT HD is still the best thing on the planet. I suspect there will be much kicking, screaming and gnashing of teeth, but most studios will eventually cross the bridge to 11. “Avid has ticked off a lot of people in this town with 11 and lost some customers,” said a session musician. “I can’t afford to move up I have way too much invested in plug-ins.” one owner confided.
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Many plugs don’t even have comparable 64 bit AAX versions that will work in 11 yet. But a lot of engineers swear by their favorite plugs and won’t give them up without a fight. If you’ve invested in $50K of extra plugs and you’re running HD10 you either stay with 10 or try to sell the plugs while you can, usually for pennies on the dollar. The big problem, and I heard this from several fellow studio owners, then confirmed it on Avid’s website, is that PT HD 11 supports no plug-ins (for quality reverb, EQ, compression, etc.) from earlier versions. For example, going from 7 to 11 is a $2,500 jump.
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Now most studios that move to 11 will upgrade from an earlier PT HD version so the pain of acquisition will be greatly mitigated, but it still isn’t cheap. Plus you need expensive hardware too, each piece costing in the multiple thousands.
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The initial software cost alone is $6,000 to $11,000 more than the $300 to $600 regular Pro Tools costs. HD is far more expensive than regular PT because it’s more robust and has more features. No individual file consolidation necessary, just click on the PT session file icon and the song session opens, ready to go, sweet!
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Because my home base, Nashville Trax runs Pro Tools HD2 and the others run HD too, it was easy to interface with the other two studios by transporting the music files on portable hard drives. On my last project I worked in three different studios around the area. Home studios and others may run Cubase, Logic or regular Pro Tools but Pro Tools HD is king in dedicated pro studios. I suspect it will be tough to get $600 for one in a year or two.Īlmost all professional grade studios and most project studios in the Nashville area use Pro Tools HD (Or HD2 or HD3) software. Control 24 mixer control surfaces that cost about $8,000 new a couple years ago are not supported in PT 11 and are being offered as low as $2,250 on eBay, with few takers.
Used Accel PCI and PCIe cards, digital converters and more are being dumped on the market as studio owners realize their gear is dated, and if they intend to move to 11, nearly worthless. So a rather large monkey wrench has been tossed into the Nashville music machine recording engine! Avid has released Pro Tools HD 11 and it doesn’t play well at all with much of the the gear required to support earlier HD versions. Then, you won't need HDX.Aural Exciter Software for Pro Tools HD running on Snow Leopard If your application lets you run a computer to the lowest buffer size, while doing anything and you don't need more than 32 I/O with PTHD. But yea, HDX is the king at low latency with PT. No computer will ever solve latency issues. Will this new computer solve latency issues? No. As well, the limitations on I/O will affect a number of users. That makes any computer more powerful when using Pro Tools. Since a HDX card system Runs Pro Tools, your computer gains MORE of its own native power to use within the Session. HDX allocates all the power to your PT session - That is something a Native Pro Tools system won't do, since its the one providing all the DSP to operate PT as a program. You have to dink around with native and adjust it to get similar performance, which then takes away power for other things like Plugs.
Will this solve latency issues still plaguing current native Pro Tools systems?Nothing Replaces HDX, as there are specific things at play here, with regard to using Pro Tools. So yesterday Apple announced their latest beast.The iMac Pro.Īnyone care to offer an opinion as to whether this machine will replace the need for Pro Tools HDX card(s)?