Pro Tools 9

Joshua Wickman and I were chatting on FB when he ordered his.

He ordered from avid and they only asked for the serial after he purchased.
So I dont think owning PT8 matters or not.
 
Fantastic, could someone let us know which places request the hardware serial?

Could you go somewhere to purchase a pre-paid Visa or something for situations like this? I know here you can buy a a Visa and load it with x amount of cash and it just functions exactly like a regular credit card. Specifically designed so people without actual credit cards can make purchases that require credit cards.
 
Glad to see Avid lifted their ridiculous hardware restrictions....

I'm curious as to the performance of 9 vs the earlier versions of Mpowered, if it still takes forever to add in cross fades during a heavy Beat-Detective session.
If any of you early-adopters would care to comment on how it's working out, that would be really cool.
 
Sound replacer was part of the MPTK but I'm not sure about PT9 (I can check in about 20 minutes) however it is incredibly arcane compared to pretty much any thing else.
 
Glad to see Avid lifted their ridiculous hardware restrictions....

I'm curious as to the performance of 9 vs the earlier versions of Mpowered, if it still takes forever to add in cross fades during a heavy Beat-Detective session.
If any of you early-adopters would care to comment on how it's working out, that would be really cool.

Not to steal Avid's thunder too much here but I thought this was relevant...

Here is how long it takes to "Fill gaps and crossfade" in Reaper on a fully chopped and edited drum session using code that I wrote myself (a 23 yr old kid with a high school education who only learned C++ 3 weeks ago :lol:)

http://www.adamwathan.com/reaper/reaper_editsmoothing.swf

If I can make it work that fast, surely Avid can come up with something, heh...
 
It wasn't part of the MPTK 2 for Pro Tools 8 actually, I think it's last appearance was in the 7.x era. So probably not in 9 either!

Googled and found this "Soundreplacer and DINR are the two plugs from the original MPTK that are not in the MPTK 2. MPTK 2= track expansion/beat detective, mp3 option, Smack LE, TL Space LE, Hybrid 1.5, Eleven LE, Structure LE "
 
Tempted to step out Cubase world and have a look... but I'm not sure.
Will PT9 be that much better than Cubase 5.5?

Anyone else in this boat?

I was almost there. but it still seems like they still haven't brought PT into the 21st century yet.
 
Yea i used my serial off a used 002 and got the upgrade to protools 9.

The way things look Avid will be changing things and actually listening to there customers. So hoping some of the other small little things like waveform view and the Bd crossfades will get fixed in time. Also from the Aes questions sounds like we can look forward to offline bounce as well soon!
 
[UEAK]Clowd;9479380 said:
I was almost there. but it still seems like they still haven't brought PT into the 21st century yet.

That waveform thing is the main reason why I won,t move to PT9...Slip editing is really the fastest way to edit and it seems impossible to do in PT so I'll just stay in Cubase.

Offline bouncing would have been nice too, but its not as important at the waveform.
 
Not to steal Avid's thunder too much here but I thought this was relevant...

Here is how long it takes to "Fill gaps and crossfade" in Reaper on a fully chopped and edited drum session using code that I wrote myself (a 23 yr old kid with a high school education who only learned C++ 3 weeks ago :lol:)

http://www.adamwathan.com/reaper/reaper_editsmoothing.swf

If I can make it work that fast, surely Avid can come up with something, heh...


The reason I ask is because in SAW, it's instantaneous. Of course, that's one of the benefits of writing in assembler.

And I'm not trying to bring the PT fans down.. quite the contrary. I'm truly curious if version 9 has a real performance boost.
 
Tempted to step out Cubase world and have a look... but I'm not sure.
Will PT9 be that much better than Cubase 5.5?

Anyone else in this boat?

Yeah but for different reasons. I have a much better opportunity to freelance in a pro tools HD studio. It would just be easier to switch. I haven't totally jumped the fence yet because of the issues I saw in 7 and 8. But since 9 essentially fixes that I'm probably making a complete jump.
 
awesome, now I can sell my HD cards and use the money to upgrade to a new mac and 9HD....cause I don'z need the cards/DSP with a new mac (I got that right that I don't need the cards for HD anymore, aye?)

I'm happy