Future PTHD 11 and TDM users .. Please AVID!!

[Jeff D.]

Originally Posted by Dism

It isn't about "not wanting to." Avid is a company low on time, money and resources. Dwindling staff, outsourcing, and demand for progress is more important than what they want to do. It has nothing to do with what they can do, and simply what they can afford to do. They can't afford another year of low sales, and bloated software. Back tracking would only slow them down more, and would not promote the sales of HDX cards. If they kept TDM in the code for PT11, what would encourage anyone to buy HDX? They can't survive on software upgrades alone. Avid is a hardware company.

Actually I think they are shooting themselves in the foot by not allocating the resources. I've transitioned from my HD3 rig to running a new Mac with 3rd party hardware, and other than lost plugins I hardly noticed a difference.

What Avid has lost is thousands of dollars I would have spent on new system whose awesome new "killer app" would have sucked me in. Without a "killer app" or fantastic capability (i.e 32 i/o in a single rackspace for < $4k) I'll just find a cheaper way to stay in the game.

At AES Antelope announced a 32 i/o + MADI interface, in a single rackspace for $3k. Once again AVID lost a chance to catch some $ from an HD user upgrading. I'm all over this one.

[groundcontrol]

Amen to that. Same here.

[studiojimi]

i always thought UA was gonna step in and take over the whole DAW thing

their plugins for certain are absolutely wonderful

[hugoleitao]

You should see this, maybe it will answer your question, around 46 minutes...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2RBXN...e_gdata_player

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[corp]

interesting....... so old 192's will work in PT11 just not supported......

Originally Posted by hugoleitao

You should see this, maybe it will answer your question, around 46 minutes...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2RBXN...e_gdata_player

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[brianjanthony]

Wow.

Very thankful (at least at this point) that i didn't drop 7k on new hardware.

[AREED]

Good news for 192's. I wonder about control sufaces?

[Nightworker]

Let's just hope that Avid will release 64 bit drivers for the nex Mac os ans the new windows 8 os (or 9 if it comes out after pt 11), if they don't then it's very likely that the 192 will not work with PT 11 at all, even if Avid did nothing physically in the code of the daw to make them stop working. Just not released any new drivers for them.

[Dism]

Originally Posted by Nightworker

Let's just hope that Avid will release 64 bit drivers for the nex Mac os ans the new windows 8 os (or 9 if it comes out after pt 11), if they don't then it's very likely that the 192 will not work with PT 11 at all, even if Avid did nothing physically in the code of the daw to make them stop working. Just not released any new drivers for them.

I could be mistaken... But I don't see why the 192 itself needs any drivers at all, 64 bit or otherwise. It is not directly interfacing with the OS, only the card it is connected to. There's no reason a 192 should stop working with an OS change, or even a DAW switch for that matter.

[Nightworker]

Originally Posted by Dism

I could be mistaken... But I don't see why the 192 itself needs any drivers at all, 64 bit or otherwise. It is not directly interfacing with the OS, only the card it is connected to. There's no reason a 192 should stop working with an OS change, or even a DAW switch for that matter.

I'm not sure either, but I wouldn't be surprise it's for inter-communication between the interface and the card itself. I don't remember having seen drivers for the interface on it's own, but there might be installed by the software itself.