Its True! PT 11!

[joesackic]

Originally Posted by L-Dogg

That's great......but how the F is it okay that going directly from 9-11 is $200 cheaper than folks who already paid $300 to go from 9-10? WTF?

Total BS! I would like to hear an Avid product specialist chime in in this. This feels like gouging to me.

Its fair because, the people on PT9 never got the benefits of PT10, non of the features, bug fixes, additions or anything. You shouldn't punish people for not updating in a specific order, you got to enjoy your PT10 and for that you paid for it. Don't $%^& on other people because your mad.

[Dism]

Originally Posted by jcb1176

I bought it 3 days ago and I have paid $999, so they should give me a free upgrade. If not, the people who has PT 9 HD should pay more.
I'm on a strange line but they should take care of it.
Anybody from Avid should explain this. It's unacceptable.

Thanks to all.

I'd wait until tomorrow when they have the official release from Avid. I imagine there will be a grace period as they always have in the past.

[jcb1176]

Originally Posted by nst7

I think they've lowered the prices in response to all the complaining last time. It stinks for the people who paid that, but I'm glad they're on this new path.

I think you're right with that. Anyway if you have to pay $999 for an upgrade from PT HD 9 and I bought PT HD 10 3 days ago for $999 they have to response on that too.

[jcb1176]

Originally Posted by joesackic

Its fair because, the people on PT9 never got the benefits of PT10, non of the features, bug fixes, additions or anything. You shouldn't punish people for not updating in a specific order, you got to enjoy your PT10 and for that you paid for it. Don't $%^& on other people because your mad.

Think. No ofense.

[sunburst79]

Originally Posted by nst7

I think they've lowered the prices in response to all the complaining last time. It stinks for the people who paid that, but I'm glad they're on this new path.

This is my read on the situation also. Unfortunately there will be those that paid a higher price for the previous upgrade and are unhappy.

Also I'm going to guess this is the costliest version of Pro Tools to write. So the new prices probably represent some good will on the part of Avid.

[L-Dogg]

Originally Posted by joesackic

Its fair because, the people on PT9 never got the benefits of PT10, non of the features, bug fixes, additions or anything. You shouldn't punish people for not updating in a specific order, you got to enjoy your PT10 and for that you paid for it. Don't $%^& on other people because your mad.

Joe.......I have had PT 10 for a month and days. I have hardly used it....... maybe two short sessions and with several crashes.

So no.....I have not hardly used it and actually would not have bought it but for a friend is doing an indie movie and he asked me to score it. The project is on hold because he got a pilot...paying work.

But I was finally moved to go to 10 because I heard 10 handled bigger VI counts. It did not for me and was choking just like in 9....after 2 maybe 3 VI's. I wasted a few days messing with it before spending a bunch of time getting VEPro up and running and testing a slave computer vs running it alongside the DAW.

Then I picked up a run of work and had to be away from the studio.

I feel gypped my friend. Is that good after being a loyal Pro Tools/Digidesign/Avid customer going back to Digi 001?

[YYR123]

Originally Posted by L-Dogg

Joe.......I have had PT 10 for a month and days. I have hardly used it....... maybe two short sessions and with several crashes.

Me too I just got it about a month ago - but that's what I get for holding out - truth be told sell your asset and move on

Heck bring a group/friends (in my case) in for a session and wa-la upgrade paid for

End of the matter if you want it you will find the cash b/c i sure will

[joesackic]

Ldogg, for those reasons I agree with you 100%. If you saw my first reply in the thread you will see I had a very similar experience with pro tools 10. I am still mad about but I don't think users of other versions should have to bear the brunt of the frustrations.

I am excited about this release though. It looks like they may have got it right this time. Hope they will give pt10 users who upgraded less then 6months ago a break like a $99 upgrade fee. Since it will be hard to keep supporting the old code and refine the new one simultaneously

Can't wait for tomorrow! Track freeze, drag and drop editing, track folders, eleven rack stand alone, exrp 2, improved VI performance. Better more efficent routing? This is my wish list. What do you think is coming?

[YYR123]

Originally Posted by joesackic

I am excited about this release though. It looks like they may have got it right this time. Hope they will give pt10 users who upgraded less then 6months ago a break like a $99 upgrade fee.

Can't wait for tomorrow! Track freeze, drag and drop editing, track folders, eleven rack stand alone, exrp 2, improved VI performance. Better more efficent routing? This is my wish list. What do you think is coming?

Track folders would be cool the new meters in the metering sounds really nice

30% taller meter in ProTools 11

Low latency input monitoring with plug-ins sounds like a direct response to the Apollo Which is great competition drives innovation

I really wanted to see the track hack or where you could in bed plug-ins and a template for new audio tracks or whatever

[groundcontrol]

I think a reasonable thing to do would be to give a couple months back grace period.

Audioease gave 1 year when Altiverb 7 came out!

As for the CPTK termination/upgrade policy. This looks exactly like the way they dealt with the original DVTK when PT9 came out. However, they offered a special, limited time, lower priced upgrade deal towards the CPTK...

I don't see why this could not be done again.

What occured to me is that they're probably trying to tie back the HD features to the HD hardware as much as they can by eliminating the availability of the toolkit.