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Re: ProTools price adjustments from July 1st.
I've been an avid fan (seewhatIdidthere?) of Pro Tools, user since 2011. In 8 years, tons of stuff has changed and made my experience much better than those first 5... but I will admit, I am scratching my head a bit since PT 12. I'm not really a power user, so all these "HD freebies" aren't registering... what I look at are the frequency of updates to the core software, or any plug ins. Which, it appears, plugins (though there are a lot of free ones) are mostly useless and haven't had an update in 3 years.
Every July, I do ask myself what I am paying $198 for? In the grand scheme, it's not a ton of money - but I feel like I am "renting" it already :) However today I have flipped off the Auto Renew switch while I take some time to evaluate whether I agree with the most of the industry model. Hey, if most of the industry jumped off a cliff, would you jump too? (hearing my mom's voice) Just be honest. Avid is a business. Their goal is profits. Subscriptions bring in more profits. You and I, home studio users A and B, matter not - but it's not Avid being a monster - it is the nature of a for-profit company to only give a s&*t about profit. This isn't some open-source gnu-bee lovin freebie software :) So while I understand the model shift, I disagree with it... enough so to give up paying, keep my perpetual license, and look into alternatives that, for years now, have all become pretty inspiring. Just my $0.02, fwiw (not even 2 cents these days )
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Good for you man! Gutsy move! You let your wallet do the talking! |
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I agree with your complete post, but this line was the best
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Here's a test at 16!!!! samples, using instrument plugins that do not work below 128 buffer in Pro Tools, along with plugins like TG12345 that add too much latency to perform through in Pro Tools. I was very very impressed. I was screencapturing at the same time, 1080p, 60fps CPU encoding as well. S1 is a ridiculous beast compared to the AAE. The audio glitches you hear are only due to screenrecording h264 CPU encoding AT THE SAME TIME!! And it's only a i7 6700k with 16GB RAM. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=esC_kJs9sEo
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Pretty unfair comparison as we all know Apple bought Logic to rip its tech to their FCP and to make it Mac-only as a perk to sell Macs to Logic users. They could even include it into their operating system and their bottom line would not get hurt as long as people keep buying Macs. With that said, Logic is a good MIDI sequencer and comes with Apogee HR22 dither, so as a one-time "plugin" cost it's good investment. But would I ever edit/mix audio in Logic? No. Not in a million years.
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Thanks man! It was a bit difficult letting go but the right move for me. There is always something better out there.
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It baffles me that some people here are defending Avid. Regardless if you can afford the price or not, anyone and everyone should be supporting each other as a community. |
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Hate to burst ya bubble but...... Actually I disagree, 171,000+ members with 7995 active members on this site alone.... I’d say your part of a vocal minority..... I mean really not much more than a handful of folks that are really complaining. The vast majority are just getting on with it.
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