Play 4 AAX for PT 10 & 11

[Emcha_audio]

Just a reminder so someone new doesn't comes here and rush EW with where's the upgrade. The official full release for "Everyone" is still slated for the 19th only.

[DetroitT]

It's up!
EW Support page, for all.

[TOM@METRO]

PLAY v4.0.12 is released today. Go get it.

[musicman691]

Originally Posted by TOM@METRO

PLAY v4.0.12 is released today. Go get it.

Works pretty good although I did have a glitch with it in PT 10.3.6. Started PT, opened a session that had two Play instances and PT hung hard to the point of having to do a force quit. Where PT hung was when it was restoring an insert on the first track in the session that had an instance of Kontakt 5 with the Giant Piano patch in it. Did a force quit, restarted PT and the session and it came up just fine. It was nice Play 4 was recognized and I didn't have to do anything to make that so.

Oh yeah - just install Play 4 over Play the as the installer takes care of uninstalling Play 3. And another thing EW is recommending unchecking the 'ignore errors on playback' due to distortion occurring in PT 11 when opening a session.

[Bruce Paine]

Originally Posted by TOM@METRO

PLAY v4.0.12 is released today. Go get it.

...here:
www.soundsonline.com/Play-Software-Download

To complete your installation, please download and install the
PLAY 4.0.12 update installer (475 MB)
What's fixed and enhanced in PLAY Software Update v4.0.12?

• Other microphone positions available in Symphonic Choirs
• Important for ProTools 11 users: Playback distortion may occur when loading a session. Please uncheck "Ignore Errors During Playback" in Setup/Playback Engine if experiencing this issue and raise your buffer size.

Not sure whether that last item is a fixed issue, or just a general warning/recommendation.

[demodigi]

Originally Posted by Bruce Paine

Not sure whether that last item is a fixed issue, or just a general warning/recommendation.

I quickly tested play 4.0.12 on PT10.3.6 & PT11. I put 8 instances of Play with different instruments from QL Piano, MoR and Fab Four.

I experienced the same kind of issue as described above (but both with PT10 & PT11).

When loading a session with Play instances, it is like some samples were stuck in the HW buffer. On 2 Play instances (not all of them, but always the sames ones), track meters are overscaled (hit 0 dBFS) and you have kind of high energy short "pop".

So BE CAREFUL FOR YOUR EARS & MONITORING SYSTEM and :
1/ MUTE your monitoring system and/or pull your headphones off BEFORE loading a session with Play.
2/ DON'T HIT PLAYBACK, nor play any midi notes if you see at least one meter displaying full scale signal (sound will be VERY distorded AND also at very high level and high frequencies !!!)
3/ open GUI of all Play instances showing this issue on their meters
-> another "pop" should occurs
4/ Then close GUI
5/ Now it should be safe, you can unmute your monitoring

Note :
- "Ignore Errors During Playback" is always unchecked on my systems (so it doesn't solve anything here)
- With PT10.3.6 I had to raise HW Buffer size to 512 to remove the issue (I normally work @256 samples)
- With PT11.0.1 I tried to raise HW Buffer size but still have pops @ 1024 (normally work @128 samples)

This issue may not appear in all cases, and except from this, Play 4 works pretty well here.

But take care.

EDIT :
- it also occurs when de-activating and re-activating tracks (exactly like loading a session)
- and sometimes when moving a Play instance from one insert slot to another one

[musicman691]

Originally Posted by Bruce Paine

...here:
www.soundsonline.com/Play-Software-Download

Not sure whether that last item is a fixed issue, or just a general warning/recommendation.

They (EW) says Avid has been notified of the problem and from that to me it means not a fixed issue on their part but one waiting for resolution from Avid, as well as a general warning/recommendation.

[jryser]

I had the same issue and sent a ptx file for them to troubleshoot. EWQL is extremely fast and responsive to getting glitches remedied.


Sent from my PT beating heart

[txrx]

Working great ......



On "Play 3" i can't play that many channels, "Play 4" seems to handle it easily .. see the memory consumption is small also...

[protoolsuserman]

Originally Posted by demodigi

I quickly tested play 4.0.12 on PT10.3.6 & PT11. I put 8 instances of Play with different instruments from QL Piano, MoR and Fab Four.

I experienced the same kind of issue as described above (but both with PT10 & PT11).

When loading a session with Play instances, it is like some samples were stuck in the HW buffer. On 2 Play instances (not all of them, but always the sames ones), track meters are overscaled (hit 0 dBFS) and you have kind of high energy short "pop".

So BE CAREFUL FOR YOUR EARS & MONITORING SYSTEM and :
1/ MUTE your monitoring system and/or pull your headphones off BEFORE loading a session with Play.
2/ DON'T HIT PLAYBACK, nor play any midi notes if you see at least one meter displaying full scale signal (sound will be VERY distorded AND also at very high level and high frequencies !!!)
3/ open GUI of all Play instances showing this issue on their meters
-> another "pop" should occurs
4/ Then close GUI
5/ Now it should be safe, you can unmute your monitoring

Note :
- "Ignore Errors During Playback" is always unchecked on my systems (so it doesn't solve anything here)
- With PT10.3.6 I had to raise HW Buffer size to 512 to remove the issue (I normally work @256 samples)
- With PT11.0.1 I tried to raise HW Buffer size but still have pops @ 1024 (normally work @128 samples)

This issue may not appear in all cases, and except from this, Play 4 works pretty well here.

But take care.

EDIT :
- it also occurs when de-activating and re-activating tracks (exactly like loading a session)
- and sometimes when moving a Play instance from one insert slot to another one

Hey there,

Exactly the same problem here!

Also don't go record arming memory intensive instances of play either, because you will get the same high pitch digital clipping you were referring to, stuck in the hardware buffer.

I have contacted East West about it. It could well be Play... playing up, but we're not sure yet.

They said they can't guarantee when it will be sorted, but it will get sorted.

I think it's a mixture of 2 new softwares working together. aghhhh