Rebuild Pro Tools

[TrentWilliams]

I've come to the conclusion that some, or most of the errors we as a community suffer from comes from decades old code. I have the feeling Pro Tools is suffering from compounded code, where adding a new feature breaks a piece of code in the depths of the application.

I myself am no coder, but I have friends who talk of this problem in other applications and software and I wonder if Pro Tools would be better off if Avid took a year or two off and completely rebuilt it from the ground up.

Thoughts?

[EricWillhelm]

Isn't that what they ostensibly did when they went 64 bit a few years back?

[Southsidemusic]

Originally Posted by EricWillhelm

Isn't that what they ostensibly did when they went 64 bit a few years back?

Exactly. Avid rebuilt PT11 64bit from the "Ground Up" atleast thats what they said and I dont think it is a bloated software but could use a overhaul IMHO of course !!

However we have had great luck with PT12.4HD and we make our living very well on Pro Tools and don't have many issues with 12.4 so for those who has serious issues with their systems, maybe try go back to 12.4 and see what happens.

[guitardom]

They did not "rebuild" when they went to 64. It was more like copy/paste code over and fix what was needed. Far to many problems transferred from 10 into 11 that should not have. They rebuilt the audio engine From my understanding and some other small stuff.

[Southsidemusic]

Well thats what they touted at the tradeshows but I agree we have some really annoying things going on and something has to be done.

[albee1952]

Whatever they did or didn't do, we all agree that stability is still not what it should be

[Carl Lie]

Remember the 100 instances of the Grand Piano? Like PT had somehow caught up to Logic with VI's.

They never got that one right. PT sucks for VI's. I wish they'd get that together the way they claimed.

But I've been drinkin' so maybe I'm just talking bull.

C

[amagras]

I've always heard that in software the new features only work fine after several revisions, I imagine that in some way PT was disassembled and reassembled when they made the change to 64 and that's why we are still seeing the consequences years after. Imo the main reason for this big delay is the subscription model whose success depends heavily on new features rather than bug fixes. I don't think Avid is deliberately breaking the program but they probably prefer to spend money telling people out there how good it is instead of making it actually good.

[musicman691]

Originally Posted by guitardom

They did not "rebuild" when they went to 64. It was more like copy/paste code over and fix what was needed. Far to many problems transferred from 10 into 11 that should not have. They rebuilt the audio engine From my understanding and some other small stuff.

My thoughts are that maybe Avid used Apple's Migration Assassin to port code over to PT11 ?

[JFreak]

Originally Posted by musicman691

My thoughts are that maybe Avid used Apple's Migration Assassin to port code over to PT11 ?

Laughing

Seriously, they said that they had to "go through every line of code" which in real world means compiling everything to 64-bit platform and fixing what breaks.

I bet nobody really thought that they started writing PT11 from empty page...?