‘Tis the Season… for updating your software.
Posted on | December 30, 2011 2 Comments
Over the last few days, the world over has been celebrating. The Holiday Season is upon us, and like most human beings, we studio professionals retired to our familial domiciles for all sorts of merriment.
Now that the overindulgences and hangovers are behind us, we’ve slowly gotten back to work. On the docket we’ve got a few mixes to finish, files to edit, and other run-of-the-mill session work.
Yet, in addition to the current workload, there is also the inevitable studio maintenance and house cleaning that ensues. First on our list? Some software updates. We took the plunge- we’re running ProTools V10.
Its been an interesting season for ProTools. In October, with seemingly sky high expectations from the user community, AVID released a major revision to the venerable platform. New architecture, new HD cards, new features.
And, to the chagrin of many, a new price. The upgrade price for PTHD is a cool $1000.
Not surprisingly, since AES many in the community have been slagging AVID across forums and user groups. Our take? We really like PT10. Under the hood, the feature and workflow updates are pretty impressive.
In V10, after processing a region with any audio-suite plugin, you can drag the edit back and forth with your trim tool. Kinda slick. Also, anytime you create a new region, you have immediate access to clip based level control. And trust us, adjusting levels in clip based audio regions can save more time than you an imagine.
Not to mention, PT10 allows you to cache sessions in RAM, alleviating some of the load on your CPU. Running an HD Native system, we’ve seen our system usage drop on average by about 15%. That is not an insignificant gain in processor heavy mixes.
One week in and already we wouldn’t want to work any other way.
All in all, this is not an inexpensive piece of software. But all things considered, as users we’re reaping a pretty amazing benefit from the obvious time, thought, and investment that AVID has continued to put into our favorite platform. Well done gang, well done.
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February 8th, 2012 @ 7:26 am
it was this ceatetsasthst changed my life forever… this was my first tape that i got a hold of… and i still have the original however it does not sound as good as this one… thanks for everything doc martin
February 10th, 2012 @ 2:47 am
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