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Post by Johnkenn on Mar 8, 2024 22:39:51 GMT -6
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Post by Quint on Mar 9, 2024 7:17:59 GMT -6
Maybe you should just do the $599 subscription? Or maybe it’s $699. It’s so freaking confusing. I JUST paid for a $599 Pro Tools Studio subscription because o didn’t realize I had converted my old perp license to subscription somewhere along the way. Like - if you were to get the subscription at $699, I think you would then have to pay $599 per year to keep it running. If you buy the $1499 perpetual license, you would then have to pay $399 per year to get updates and support. If you didn’t want to update and are a perpetual license owner, you can just stay there and not pay. Right now, I'm thinking I'll use PT Intro for a bit and see what I think. It's apparently the same except for track limitations (and bus limitations) and some other things I wouldn't need to test-drive. Ultimately, if I were to make the jump, I'd be doing it for the integrated DSP mixer within the DAW. Otherwise, I'm perfectly happy with Logic. I should probably give Luna a spin, too - since it also can do the integrated DSP mixer if you have an Apollo. No hardware inserts, though. Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr Yeah, I’m kind of holding off any significant moves until I get a better sense of whether LUNA is going to grow into a fully mature DAW (HW inserts being the big thing right now). Part of me is drawn to someone doing a new DAW from the ground up. Good software dev is so expensive and I’m certain all of these legacy DAWs have a lot of janky workarounds and fixes and things stacked on top of decades old code because DAW needs have changed dramatically over time and it’s short term cheaper/easier to mod and patch existing code bases rather than tear it up and start over. So if LUNA continues to develop, part of me thinks it could end up being less buggy and more streamlined for modern users, compared to something that’s been around for a couple decades and patched a million times. That’s a lot of speculation though, obvs. I do think hardware inserts for Luna are coming, but the question is when? If/when hardware inserts for Luna come, I think I'm golden at that point. But if not, it seems like a HDX system with Lynx Aurora (n) would be my alternative move, because Carbon is limited on expandability, and I need more I/O for hardware inserts (and tracking, for that matter) than what Carbon would allow. So neither Luna nor Carbon are currently getting it done for me, as far as hardware inserts are concerned. I'm not sure how much I/O you need for your hardware inserts? I suppose the difference here though is that, while I do think that Luna will ultimately get hardware inserts, I kind of doubt Carbon will ever be allowed to expand beyond what it currently does. Avid's gotta create a differentiator of some kind to get people into HDX systems. And not that this matters to everyone, but the ability to track with plugins (that I actually want to use) is worth something. There's not much on the AAX platform that I want to use, or that I wouldn't feel the need to replace with something better during mixing. In Luna, I can basically start mixing during tracking because I don't feel a need to replace the API Vision plugin, for example. I can use it during tracking, and then it's already there for mixing (and is therefore probably already kind of mixed anyway). With Carbon or HDX, I'd almost certainly be replacing most or all of those AAX plugins used during tracking, once I got to mixing, which isn't great because I'm trying to get away from the whole "placeholder" mentality. In Luna, I like that tracking and mixing are basically one in the same, at least how I use it anyway. All of that said, none of this stuff (Luna or PT) has everything I want. Which sucks. If it ever looks like hardware inserts aren't going to come to Luna, I guess HDX it is (if I want to stay with DSP, and I do).... Which is ugh... |
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