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Post by Ward on Dec 28, 2020 12:11:30 GMT -6
According to this . . . duc.avid.com/showthread.php?t=335492You can just swap out an HD card for an HDX and not need to update anything, just go into your hardware setup and preferences and choose the new card. Sounds about right to everyone? I've been close to doing that for several years and keep postponing because of bad advice about needing to move to PT2020.12.whatever I might make the big jump but right now everything is air-gapped and I don't want to open my system up to the world of software providers constantly pinging my system looking to update or force me to upgrade. Thoughts? |
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Post by Blackdawg on Dec 28, 2020 12:54:46 GMT -6
Should be fine providing you have the HDX drivers installed which you would with the native card. You'll just be added the dedicated DSP. So not all the different from the native card other than the DSP.
I'm still on 2018.4 or something with HDX. Totally fine. I never get pinged to update and Im plugged into the internet. Plugin's all the time..but Protools. Never.
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Post by ericn on Dec 28, 2020 16:17:24 GMT -6
Check the Avid support Docs, make sure the Version of PTHD installed supports HDX. I would probably do a new clean install of the software just in case it needs to see the HDX cards during install, but my official PT support roll ended with HD.
Me being me I would setup a new boot drive so if there are issues (it is AVID after all) I could just throw the old cards in, boot from the current drive and be up and running in less than 20 min. Oh Mark the current card order and interface to card order, you might laugh at this but I’ll say it again it’s F#%ing AVID, this stuff shouldn’t matter but it does!
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Post by thirdeye on Dec 28, 2020 22:29:32 GMT -6
According to this . . . duc.avid.com/showthread.php?t=335492You can just swap out an HD card for an HDX and not need to update anything, just go into your hardware setup and preferences and choose the new card. Sounds about right to everyone? I've been close to doing that for several years and keep postponing because of bad advice about needing to move to PT2020.12.whatever I might make the big jump but right now everything is air-gapped and I don't want to open my system up to the world of software providers constantly pinging my system looking to update or force me to upgrade. Thoughts? Curious, what version of Pro Tools are you running?? I recently went from HD to HDX. I setup a fresh new OS SSD in my same computer with PT2020.11 (then PT2020.12) with all updated plugins. But I also kept my old PTHD10.3.10 HDD that was configured to work with my HD6 Magma rig. With this drive in the computer, I swapped in the HDX x 2 cards, and Pro Tools 10.3.10HD is (surprisingly) working great, no updates or re-install of Pro Tools needed. I will use this hard drive to open old sessions when needed. When I opened old sessions, Pro Tools changed some of my TDM plugins to native plugins, because there was no AAX DSP version installed, but that was the only thing that happened. I absolutely did as ericn has wisely suggested here and I made an image of the drive before all these changes in case things went south. |
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