Pro Tools 9 on Windows 7

[filosofem]

Originally Posted by markolone

i think the new protools 9...is the same on w7 64bit.

...and I'd disagree, Pro Tools 9.0 is more stable and reliable on Windows 7 64 than Pro Tools 8.0.4 if you are running hardware components including the personal computer recommended by Avid Audio.

[Cloud_9]

Originally Posted by Keybeeetsss

no

Installed Komplete 7 and updates....

no.

Installed Melodyne Editor......

no.

Installed trilogy and Stylus RMX w/ updates......

no.

Installed Strike (v 1.0).....(for $HY!T$ & Giggles)

no.

Why hasnt anything gone wrong yet?

[albee1952]

Originally Posted by Cloud_9

Why hasnt anything gone wrong yet?

Have you met my friend Murphy







NO

[H-Musikk]

Originally Posted by GKinTN

Problems here for sure and mainly issues with PT9 not getting along with my UAD2 quad.

I too have problem with UAD2. I just get alot of clicks and beeps when inserting a UAD plugin...

[Keybeeetsss]

Originally Posted by H-Musikk

I too have problem with UAD2. I just get alot of clicks and beeps when inserting a UAD plugin...

Is UAD workin with PT?








No

[BigMetal]

i find myself having to run at high buffer times, even though i have a fast CPU, 10K RPM HDs and 6GB of memory. I was getting DAE errors even though my CPU was at 17-18% and the used RAM was about 2GB at the time.

i had 2 DVerbs and 1 Delay on Aux Channels and about 20 Comps and 20 EQ4s on individual channels. 2 Massey Limiters (one on an aux and one on the main) and a EQ7 on the main out. 3 bus sends each on 32 channels and a SansAmp plugin running. i don't normally load down my sessions like that, but i don't see why it shouldn't work.

also, ProTools likes to stop responding after bouncing to MP3, about 90% of the time... it does create the file fine.

these issues are nothing i can't work around, but it would be nice to work with a lower buffer setting.

i've done most of the suggested Win 7 - 64 bit tweaks, i need to go through them again and make sure.

[fgstudio]

Nightmare would probably be the best word to describe it. I feel like I'm on windows 98. Non stop "pro tools has stopped working" taking multiple minutes just to 'end task' while it's sitting in 'not responding.'

[aboriginal]

Originally Posted by BigMetal

2 Massey Limiters (one on an aux and one on the main)

also, ProTools likes to stop responding after bouncing to MP3, about 90% of the time... it does create the file fine.

Massey tends to use up a lot of resources. I'm not sure how many other UAD plugins you're using but Massey is a memory hog.

I too had an issue yesterday when bouncing a file. I usually don't bounce my songs. I usually use the "export files as region" option for my final mix without changing the resolution, then use Sound Forge to convert it to mp3.

Last night, however, I chose to bounce my session to a wav file, not changing the resolution, for the first time with PT9. I had one 2 track, with three midi tracks playing a couple of lead lines, from a couple of soft synths. Thirty seconds into bouncing the song, I decided that I wanted to add something else, but when I hit "Esc" to stop it, as I'd done often with previous PT versions, nothing happened. PT9 stopped responding, but the bounce continued anyway. The min:sec countdown was grayed out. So I decided to let the entire 4 minute bounce continue instead of ending the task. Once the bounce completed, PT became fully functional, as though there was nothing wrong. I've never seen this before, especially with such a small session. I haven't had time to try this again, but has anyone else seen this?

BTW, my session was in 24/48, using a buffer of 256 and 11 out of 16 cores. Clock source was ADAT using the Focusrite Octopre.

Thanks

[Hotcrazyfruit]

Originally Posted by fgstudio

Nightmare would probably be the best word to describe it. I feel like I'm on windows 98. Non stop "pro tools has stopped working" taking multiple minutes just to 'end task' while it's sitting in 'not responding.'

Thats probably your setup. considering everybody else's works fine

[cwsand]

Originally Posted by fgstudio

Nightmare would probably be the best word to describe it. I feel like I'm on windows 98. Non stop "pro tools has stopped working" taking multiple minutes just to 'end task' while it's sitting in 'not responding.'

I can't imagine using PT9 on anything less than an I7 - and even then you still need to tweak the BIOS and OS. With all that I do ocasionally get a buffer error but it's usually because I'm mixing a large session at 64.