Improved threading mgmt in PT12 (THE difference vs. PT11?)

[guitardom]

Originally Posted by maunaloa

Darryl, let's hope that some of Avid's new licensing revenue goes to creation of SDKs for devs that explain the points you make.

Just think... this may be the first time in the history of PT that Win hosts surpass OSX hosts in an area that matters for PT users.

Its been this way since PT went into multicore processing, but people have their preferred OS.

Devs have quite an in depth SDK, its what they choose to implement or skimp on that matters.

[Darryl Ramm]

Originally Posted by maunaloa

Darryl, let's hope that some of Avid's new licensing revenue goes to creation of SDKs for devs that explain the points you make.

I have no idea what is going on with those problems, have not noticed those problems when I played with Pro Tools 11 (I really don't use Pro Tools 11). There sure seems to be problems here and the high order bit is Avid just needs to fix it. My comments were more a reaction to saying things with more explicit process placement may be better. Software that tries to do that often ends up having problems, for one thing it's very hard to debug and test. I've worked with incredibly sophisticated RDBMS code that could do that magic very well (and the developers that did all that were often more OS than application developers), and seen end-user developers tying to use the same tricks and fairly often managing to hurting themselves or decreasing not increase performance. Just an observation. You fix problems by debugging them, I hope Avid has developers working on whatever is broken...

[mrtomcat]

is there a way to get a trial version of 12? I could only find an 11 trial... and with this thread I am now curious

[maunaloa]

That's a question for Tom, the Mod.

[txshonk]

Originally Posted by mrtomcat

is there a way to get a trial version of 12? I could only find an 11 trial... and with this thread I am now curious

I have been contemplating a 1 month subscription to try it out. Not free but it would help answer my curiosity.

[maunaloa]

If you're using a Digi 003 or 003R, or just a mouse and an I/O interface, I wouldn't hesitate to move to PT12. IME, the problems with PT12 are mainly related to Eucon.

[txshonk]

So curiosity got the better of me.

I purchased a 30day subscription. I uninstalled PT11 and installed PT12.

I see no improvements that make it worthwhile for me to buy my upgrade before December. Load times and the System Usage seem very much same in PT11 and 12.

I was reminded how I wouldn't want to go back to just vanilla.

Dave

[TOM@METRO]

Originally Posted by mrtomcat

is there a way to get a trial version of 12? I could only find an 11 trial... and with this thread I am now curious

At this point, the best way to try Pro Tools 12 is a one month rental. Or you can wait for the new free "Pro Tools First" coming shortly.

[Park Seward]

Originally Posted by txshonk

So curiosity got the better of me.

I purchased a 30day subscription. I uninstalled PT11 and installed PT12.

I see no improvements that make it worthwhile for me to buy my upgrade before December. Load times and the System Usage seem very much same in PT11 and 12.

Dave

If PT12 is supposed to be a version with software hooks for new, upcoming features, Avid should have told us the plans before release. And not have called it PT12 with so little improvements. It may become 12 after the new features are added but not yet. You don't change version numbers for future enhancements.

I still haven't seen any "What's New" information for 12. If there were "under the hood refinements", what were they?

[midnightrambler]

"Improved threading mgmt in PT12"

I really wish people wouldn't start threads like this. There's no evidence for any improved threading and no literature anywhere to back this assertion up. If the OP really thinks this is true, he should submit a video showing an A/B comparison on a site like youtube so we can all see the differences for ourselves. In my experience there is no discernible operational difference between PT11 and PT12. I booted up this computer this morning and totally forgot I using the wrong OS drive - was using PT11 for a good few hours before I realised I wasn't on PT12.