PT12 has less Instrument Tracks?

[adgjk]

Does PT12 really have less instrument tracks than PT11, or is this just a typo in the chart?

(Compared to the PT11 chart)

The number of instrument tracks has been halved for both Pro Tools and Pro Tools HD.

Can anyone shine any light on this?

Thanks

[musicman691]

Originally Posted by adgjk

Does PT12 really have less instrument tracks than PT11, or is this just a typo in the chart?

(Compared to the PT11 chart)

The number of instrument tracks has been halved for both Pro Tools and Pro Tools HD.

Can anyone shine any light on this?

Thanks

I don't think it's a typo. And that's sad.

[smokeandshadow]

Instrument tracks are critical for me as a composer, I don't have time to route inefficient, multi-timberal groups using midi tracks. It is an outdated workflow, and I will have to look elsewhere if my copy of Pro Tools is being purposely crippled.

[adgjk]

I think I'm switching then. I'll ride out 11 as long as I can, but then I'm likely to go to Steinberg (either Cubase or Nuendo, depending on funds and needs) or Reaper. At least they actually listen to their customer base and don't screw them out of basic functions!

[Drew Mazurek]

HAS to be a typo. Stay tuned.

[musicman691]

Originally Posted by Drew Mazurek

HAS to be a typo. Stay tuned.

Drew - while you're looking into this take a look at the PT HD track amounts - those don't look right either.

[musicman691]

Originally Posted by smokeandshadow

Instrument tracks are critical for me as a composer, I don't have time to route inefficient, multi-timberal groups using midi tracks. It is an outdated workflow, and I will have to look elsewhere if my copy of Pro Tools is being purposely crippled.

If you're doing multi-timbral with each sound having it's own MIDI then you DO need to deal with separate MIDI tracks routing to the vi inserted on the Instrument track.

[adgjk]

Originally Posted by musicman691

If you're doing multi-timbral with each sound having it's own MIDI then you DO need to deal with separate MIDI tracks routing to the vi inserted on the Instrument track.

Not as far as I'm aware, I can get 16 instruments in 1 instance of Kontakt, or 16 instruments from 1 instance of VEP, each with a separate MIDI channel within the instrument track and they all work fine. I don't have to deal with MIDI tracks.

The way I see it is that the Instrument track is a MIDI and Aux combined, so you have no need for twice the amount of tracks to get MIDI sounds

[mesaone]

Originally Posted by adgjk

I can get 16 instruments in 1 instance of Kontakt, or 16 instruments from 1 instance of VEP, each with a separate MIDI channel within the instrument track and they all work fine. I don't have to deal with MIDI tracks.

I'm lost. MIDI on multiple channels, on a single instrument track, simultaneously?

[adgjk]

Originally Posted by mesaone

I'm lost. MIDI on multiple channels, on a single instrument track, simultaneously?

No, sorry. I'll still use 16 instrument tracks, but I have no need to use MIDI and Aux tracks. This just seems like the easiest way to me. It's like an audio track, everything gets its own fader and channel strip, without doubling up MIDI and Auxes.

The way that I've seen a lot of people use PT is to add 1 instrument track, to host say Kontakt, and then they'll add a further 15 MIDI tracks and 15 Aux tracks. Channel 1 is on the instrument track and then 2-16 are on the MIDI tracks, with the audio coming out of the Aux tracks...... I don't like this way, it seems messy to me.