Using HD native card with PT Vanilla

[protoolsuserman]

Will windows or mac osx regonise an hd native card either pcie or thunderbolt when running pt vanilla, or is only asio/core audio available with no hd/ultimate upgrade?

Thanks

[originalscottyg]

No. You must have HD/Ultimate software to use HDX or HD Native. If you are using a version of Pro tools version 12.6 or later, you will also need a DigiLink I/O license, which is a separate, 1-time purchase.

[Brandonx1]

Can he use the card under AU or ASIO? I know you can with the DAPS

[originalscottyg]

Originally Posted by Brandonx1

Can he use the card under AU or ASIO? I know you can with the DAPS

Yes with an if...no with a but..

You can use the card with apps other than Pro Tools, such as DAPS (although DAPS would be no use with PT Vanilla). Pro Tools Vanilla specifically disables using the HD hardware inside Pro Tools with ASIO or other drivers.

[albee1952]

Things to consider:
1-If you can't afford the software required, then you could sell the hardware(which has decent value) and replace with hardware that will work with PT Vanilla.

2-If you're going to use any other DAW, then HD/Native would not be a good choice at all.

3-you mentioned the native PCIe card or Thunderbolt, but you didn't mention what interface you would be using with it(the card or Thunderbolt box are useless without a connected Digilink device).

4-If you are trying to put together a working setup, maybe if you describe your needs in complete detail, someone will have some good recommendations

[Ru_C]

Originally Posted by originalscottyg

Yes with an if...no with a but..

You can use the card with apps other than Pro Tools, such as DAPS (although DAPS would be no use with PT Vanilla). Pro Tools Vanilla specifically disables using the HD hardware inside Pro Tools with ASIO or other drivers.

Its amazing, AVID must be the only company that disables its own software with its own hardware...same with needing HD/Ultimate to use older Icon/ProControl range...you'd think by the end of 2020, they would be happy to just sell hardware/software in any combination

[Enrico Donner]

Originally Posted by Ru_C

Its amazing, AVID must be the only company that disables its own software with its own hardware...same with needing HD/Ultimate to use older Icon/ProControl range...you'd think by the end of 2020, they would be happy to just sell hardware/software in any combination

One of the worst company management ever seen.
God knows how much we all love the audio coming out from those TDM cards, and how much we get sick about their commercial strategy.
They declared obsolete their own hardware?
They invented Digilink?
What kind of short sighted managers could have implement those absurd strategies?

Look at how AVID performed in the stock market compared to their sector peers...
A real financial suicide.

We miss Digidesign soooooo much!

[JFreak]

Originally Posted by Ru_C

Its amazing, AVID must be the only company that disables its own software with its own hardware...same with needing HD/Ultimate to use older Icon/ProControl range...you'd think by the end of 2020, they would be happy to just sell hardware/software in any combination

It has always been so, that if you have TDM/HD hardware you need Full/HD license. LE versions and "vanilla" are exceptions that open the software with limited feature set for other hardware, but the rule still remains HD hardware needs HD license.

They would be happy to sell HD/Ultimate license for anyone needing it.

[JFreak]

Originally Posted by Enrico Donner

They declared obsolete their own hardware?

Excuse me, but was TDM cards the only hardware in the world which did not get 64bit drivers? It was PT10 max because PT11 and later were 64bit.

There will be a plethora of doorstops coming in once Apple Silicon is supported and people realise old stuff won't be getting new drivers.

Such is life. You can still keep using old hardware/software combination, works just as well now as when it was new.

[Enrico Donner]

Originally Posted by JFreak

They would be happy to sell HD/Ultimate license for anyone needing it.

Not sure I follow.
Of course they would!

But please open your Yahoo stock charts and take a look at Adobe, Blackmagic, Autodesk, Apple...

I am supporting Digidesign since their birth.
Had to sell a kidney to buy me my first Audomedia and Samplecell when I still was a student.
And I still won't trade the sound of Pro Tools HD/HDX for anything else.

I'm not talking about not loving Pro Tools or being "unfaithful" here!
I'm exactly talking the opposite way.

I'm talking about not receiving back any love from those short-sighted managers.
I'm talking not seeing "my" Company shining in Nasdaq instead of risking to go bankrupt every few years...

I know so many, really so many Pro Tools old-timers so much frustrated with Avid.

Let's be honest: outstanding audio patents, horrible Company management.
Lack of vision and ideas.

Take care <3