HD Native '64bit Mixer Resolution'?

[Matt_G]

What does that actually refer to? I've heard some say that this is only referring to the low latency hardware cue mix engine but can't find any 'official' mention from Avid about this??

I was kinda hoping it meant that the Pro Tools summing mixer was 64bit floating point for this release & that the RTAS plug-in interconnects were only 32bit float. Would make more sense otherwise you're just paying for lower latency monitoring & HD software features.. big deal.

In any case I was hoping that this 'native' version of Pro Tools HD would be available to existing HD users (obviously without TDM support). Does anyone know if Pro Tools HD Native 8.5/9 will run on HD Core cards? Or will it only work with the new HD Native PCIe card?

Can anyone from Avid comment reliably on this?

[Brent_Sydney]

Curious about this also :) GDay Matt, hope things in Brissy are good and Dom isnt giving you any grief!

[Dism]

This is all covered in the user manual at avid.com, however...

Originally Posted by Matt_G

I was kinda hoping it meant that the Pro Tools summing mixer was 64bit floating point for this release & that the RTAS plug-in interconnects were only 32bit float.

This is correct. 64-bit FP summing mixer, with 32-bit FP processing.

Originally Posted by Matt_G

In any case I was hoping that this 'native' version of Pro Tools HD would be available to existing HD users (obviously without TDM support). Does anyone know if Pro Tools HD Native 8.5/9 will run on HD Core cards? Or will it only work with the new HD Native PCIe card?

Pro Tools Native works only with Pro Tools Native. Just like LE works with LE, M-P works with M-P... etc.

[Matt_G]

Originally Posted by Brent_Sydney

Curious about this also :) GDay Matt, hope things in Brissy are good and Dom isnt giving you any grief!

Howdy Brent! Things in Brissy are going swell.. just ordered a new rack the other day because I'm running out of room (gear sitting on the floor). How's Sydney treating you?

M

[Matt_G]

Originally Posted by Dism

This is all covered in the user manual at avid.com, however... This is correct. 64-bit FP summing mixer, with 32-bit FP processing.

I've looked at the 'HD Native User Guide.pdf' but couldn't find anything there about it. What manual are you referring to? Do you have a page number reference?

Pro Tools Native works only with Pro Tools Native. Just like LE works with LE, M-P works with M-P... etc.

Well you know what, back when PT HD was around version 6.X you could use PT LE with the HD interface & hardware. Allowing you to run PT LE 32bit floating point with the Digi 192 interface but with no TDM support. I tried it & it worked fine. Then Digidesign removed this compatibility for some reason. However considering the only thing that is changed in the HD Native code is the software running floating point I was hoping they would allow existing HD users to use it... makes sense to offer this as an option. Why should we have to buy a HD Native card to run PT's HD native software? There is no reason this couldn't be made possible very easily.

[ejsongs]

The mixer is the same as the le mixer....look at it as pt le with all the edit features of pt hd with better convertors

[nst7]

It's not the same as the LE mixer. That's why there's so much discussion about it.

[maxon]

Originally Posted by nst7

It's not the same as the LE mixer. That's why there's so much discussion about it.

Native HD mixer It's worse than HD 48bit or not ?

[nst7]

I don't think anyone knows yet. It's different from both TDM systems and LE systems.

[ejsongs]

i've been told from digi that it was the same mixer as le...

i do find that it is odd that digi has directly avoided answering that question on any of the forums...i again ask digi to chime in and clear up any confusion or misinformation.

not trying to hate on this product...thinking about buying it. just desperately trying to find out exactly what it is and what it is capable of without the marketing hollywood bs...just straight facts.

i can't buy into it unless i know what i am buying.:0)

ej