Todays Avid Pro tools news

Umm...ok, so now you don't get to keep the bundled plugs. They needed a better reason for people to buy the updates every year.

I'm using pt less and less.

Avid is keeping the perpetual licenses and now providing incremental price options for updated software, support and new plugs or there is the subscription service.

If you have a perpetual license you can buy just 12 for $99 no support or new plugs before Jan 1 after its $299.

So that gets you the new improved software now including some hd features but if you don't keep paying annually no new features after Jan 1/17.

I think ?

me neither bacon lover aside I call them dumbscription services

put 12 for $ 99 if it's a perpetual license is actually cheaper than its previous upgrades.

Im so upset they keep taking feature from HD there is now no reason to own HD Native and HDx in my opinion.

I wish I could switch to reaper. I have mixed a few video games in it but none of my other clients use it. You can route anything to anything!!!

I/O count and BlA Modded Avid 192s!

But I think HDX is becoming more and more of a post thing!

I guess for label stuff it could be a pain. My deliverable is just a .wav and an .mp3 usually. 

When I checked to see what all of the hoopla was about over "PoTools" back in the 001 days, it was clear that Avid was not "normal people", even by the way the website and the platform was structured. I'm so glad I didn't jump on that ship. At the time I couldn't imagine that people would stand still for a closed scheme like that. Boy, they not only stood still for it, but ate it up and went back for second & third helpin's of subscribing into a money black hole. I like stuff that works without going to a gatekeeper to ask for simple things to work across the board and fit easily into a workflow without building around a closed system that kept you coming back to make things work like they should've from the onset. Not a glutton for punishment here.

To me, simple and highly flexible things like Reaper, open source stuff, hardware, hybrid, open ended, configurable, and modular are a workflow that's impossible to do without. I M O

This is why I feel bad for ProTools users. It was always expensive, they rarely got the full features set they wanted, they forced down the most proprietary route possible and yet they were constantly assured it was the best. It was good software, but the last 5 years has seen them slip seriously in comparison to competition. Coupled with a shrinking market and big previous investments, it's not a great time to be an Avid customer.

However the company have always been elitist and cynical and if the current board ends up living in a dumpster it'll be too good for them. They've screwed customers and they've doomed a lot of their employees. I kind of just want them to close tomorrow so the employees can get their redundancy while there's still some liquidity and the current customers don't end up buying another half chewed upgrade.

It's interesting, because I'm using pt a lot more.

I wonder if peoples experiences with software is often determined by how nice the software plays with their computer. For example, Pro Tools 11 has worked without a hiccup for my computer. Meanwhile, for the first time Cubase is not playing well with my computer. For example, I can't mixdown on projects that originated in 6.07 in Cubase 8. That's the first time in my Cubase experience-which goes back to SX- that former projects didn't work well with the new version.

I've tried a bunch of DAWs over the years. I started with PTLE on a G4, loved the software but got tired of the limitations. I then dabbled with Cubase 5, which I thought was a nice program, but I never fully jumped in since I had some hardware problems with a computer a friend and I built. My next system was an ADK built PC running Samplitude 10. Great system and a great program. Of the DAWs I have used, I think it has the best audio editing. I used that system for nearly 7 years and it worked like a charm. However, I became concerned about the future of Samplitude and decided when I got a new computer that it was time to explore a new DAW. I was all ready to jump on a PT Native rig when the subscription model was announced. The uncertainty and what I perceived to be unjustifiable cost sent me back to the drawing board. I am a one man operation and create my own music. 99% of the time, I'm just recording myself. I decided to go with Logic Pro X on a Mac Book Pro. I spent about four months really studying the program with MusicTechHelpGuys videos and the manual. It has taken some time, but I am really enjoying the program.

There are a few things that I have learned about DAWs over the years that may or may not be helpful. First, you can accomplish everything you need to do with any of them. They each just have different ways of accomplishing the same things. Second, there is a learning curve to any DAW. You have to give yourself time to learn a new system if that is what you choose to do. To think that you can be proficient in a new DAW in a week is unrealistic. Finally, you have to figure out what DAW meets YOUR needs. Just because some famous producer uses X DAW and all of the big studios use Y DAW, doesn't mean that that is what you need.