Protools 6 Allows Initiation of Plug-ins on the Fly?!?

[etherize]

This was posted by wcody in the Protools LE Forum. He Just got back from AES with the following to report:

"The PT 6 TDM demo was trouble-free. Absolutely smooth, seamless and fast. No hint of instability. Imagine invoking plugs WHILE a session is playing. If you've got the bucks, the TDM HD system is the cat's meow (bee's knees?). "

Can anyone confirm that Protools 6 now has the ability to initiate TDM plug-ins during playback ???

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[Doug Rider]

Yes, you can instantiate a TDM plug-in on the fly in the new PT 6. There is about a 1/4 second drop out of audio when you do this, but its way better than what we're used to at the moment. This is for plug-ins only, you cannot do the same to I/O or Aux sends.

[Lee Blaske]

That's pretty cool.

My excitement level just jumped up several notches. [img]images/icons/wink.gif[/img]

Lee Blaske

[Jules]

Super cool if it's true!
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[haze]

I saw it too, it's true. Plug-ins on the fly, yeah!It got a nice little cheer when the demo-duge pointed it out at AES.

jh

[Przemek]

Originally posted by Doug Rider:
This is for plug-ins only, you cannot do the same to I/O or Aux sends.

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial">It would be more useful, but it will require mixer reconfiguration, so I understand it's harder to do - and noone wish that - at least I remember everyone was talkin about plug-ins, not sends [img]images/icons/smile.gif[/img]
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[[Benjamin]]

So did the Track Preset deal turn up?

Remember: http://duc.digidesign.com/cgi-bin/ub...=2;t=006439;p=

Ben

[Renie]

Plug-in's on the fly for Mix systems too?

Renie

[maxserg]

Just one thing while reading theese posts:

How could the digi team would program a software who permits instantiating plug-ins and ask at the same time plug-in delay compensation, you imagine the drop in sound(glitches) Protools have to re-calculate the plug-in delay(specific to this one)and at the same time stop audio(even while playing!)

I think you have to makup your mind about how smooth would be one option over the other(instantiating while playing or plug-in delay compensation)

Don't forget that if you instantiate one plug-in(while delay compensation) the software has to calculate two different tasks before re-aligning all(...) the tracks playing at that moment. [img]images/icons/shocked.gif[/img] [img]images/icons/shocked.gif[/img]

...wow!!! [img]images/icons/shocked.gif[/img]

[Przemek]

I know it's difficult, but this is what computers are for, isn't it? If Nuendo (2.0) can do it, why PT cannot?
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