Can old LE sessions open in Protools 8?

[slade72]

Hi, I'm sure it's been answered somewhere but I can't find it so......
I've got some old Protools sessions that I recorded at an outside studio years ago in Protools LE 6.something. They now reside on an external hard drive. I am preparing to buy a new computer and interface and need to know if I'm going to be able to open up and work on these sessions in the latest version of either Protools 8 M powered or Protools LE 8. I'm getting a new iMac and either the M-Box Pro with LE or the M-Audio Profire 610 with M-Powered. I've heard the term "pts. extension" but have no clue what that means or how it relates. Any help is very much appreciated.

[Eric Seaberg]

Yes it will open it yet save it as a .pts file. The older sessions had the extension .ptf, if I remember.

[slade72]

Thanks. Sounds simple enough. There's gotta be a catch. (Hopefully not.)
.....any opinions out there on M Box pro vs. the 610?

[JChance]

I haven't a/b'd the Profire 610 that I have with an M-Box 2 Pro.... but the general consensus is that the Profire has better, or more updated conversion & pre-amps.
My Profire 610 works great & sounds really good on it's own. Using external preamps & good mics, you could certainly make great recordings- but of course you could do that with the mBox as well.

[slade72]

I appreciate that....I'm leaning towards the 610 more and more. M-Powered Protools is solid? Has anyone ever recorded more than 2 mics at a time with it? I was thinking of using an external stereo pre (with two mics) to go into the two 1/4" jacks and then 2 more mics into the front to get some drums down. The I/O is really the only limitation that I can see with the 610.

[plutone]

The catch is the plugins you thought you'd have forever are now a memory. So long Echo Farm and Kantos and NuVerb (2K for that one) and many more....