Avid Pro Tools 9 - The Real Native Version

They announced it a few hours ago at AES. Just wanted to pass the news on to those who may not already know. Downloading it now. Now back to work. Details, here.

• No more LE or MP.
• Automatic Delay Compensation!
• More Tracks — Up to 96 Audio Tracks!
• Record 32 simultaneous inputs.
• More busses (256), etc.
• Works with Any Audio Interface — or Standalone!
• Multitrack Beat Detective — Now Standard!
• EuCon Support for Euphonix Control Surfaces!
• DigiBase Pro as standard.
• OMF/AAF/MXF interchange as standard.
• And More!

Pretty dope news for those of us who use PT either by itself or with other software, and maybe even others who don't.

So I'm sure right now I'm going PT. Still don't know which audio interface to get.

fu** these ninjas -__-
lol shuda came out with this years ago.. dope that now the hd interfaces have direct inputs instead of cabless

holy shit have you seen the new pricing??? 249 and up for upgrades and 599 for the complete system (bundled plugins i guess means the softsynths instrument package) but hot damn thats taxing...

I payed 500$ for Logic as a new user and I will pay 600$ for PT9 as a new user. That's a reasonable price.

shimmyshimmy wrote:I payed 500$ for Logic as a new user and I will pay 600$ for PT9 as a new user. That's a reasonable price.

What do you really need from pro tools that you don't get from logic?


One cool thing about the whole situation is now people with an emu 1616m interface already have protools HD AD/DA converters.

As for a 1616m pcie owner like myself, I'm happy with using live 8, celemony essentials, adobe soundbooth cs4 to handle my needs.

shimmyshimmy wrote:I payed 500$ for Logic as a new user and I will pay 600$ for PT9 as a new user. That's a reasonable price.

i guess it would be if you used it for more than recording... i dont use softsynths period so paying that much is not what im looking forward to... i just use it for recording and mixing so that other shit would just sit there... i have 7.4le and for now that works... they have a price set @ 250 for PT w/o the instruments which i feel is more resonable for my use...

fuk yea if i dont sell off my gear and quit beatmaking all together will most definately be picking up pro tools 9 and use it with my interfaces!

v00d00ppl wrote:

shimmyshimmy wrote:I payed 500$ for Logic as a new user and I will pay 600$ for PT9 as a new user. That's a reasonable price.

What do you really need from pro tools that you don't get from logic?

I need it to go cross platforms. I need to have two workplaces one in my home country and one here in USA. Spending another 2k + on Mac is not that gr8 perspective. In the long run it will be better for me.

Finally!

shimmyshimmy wrote:

v00d00ppl wrote:

shimmyshimmy wrote:I payed 500$ for Logic as a new user and I will pay 600$ for PT9 as a new user. That's a reasonable price.

What do you really need from pro tools that you don't get from logic?

I need it to go cross platforms. I need to have two workplaces one in my home country and one here in USA. Spending another 2k + on Mac is not that gr8 perspective. In the long run it will be better for me.

Ok. Now I understand your situation. That would be better for you then

That's what I'm talking 'bout. No more excuses for not owning a viable PT setup.

is that 96 stereo tracks or mono?

That's 96 stereo or mono audio tracks at 44.1/48kHz without the Complete Production Toolkit 2. As you double the sampling rate it will be halved.

Here's the official version comparison chart.

By the way, updated and works fine with all the interfaces I've tried (coreaudio, haven't tried a PC yet).

If anyone gets the 'could not initialize current playback device' error on Mac (I haven't had it happen) it seems relatively easy to rectify. Delete: /Library/Preferences/com.apple.audio.AggregateDevices.plist