how is PT 7.3.1 LE? good? bad? sound off here...

[MixerGuy]

Heya all

I have G5 PPC 2.7 dual and an Intel 2.66 dual Mac Pro.... and a Powerbook G4 17” 1.33...

I’m currently running PT LE 7.1 (or similar) on all of the machines, and for the most part - it is working well. I’m considering upgrading to 7.3.1 on all of them.

If you have upgraded to LE 7.3.1, and have any good or bad experiences, please post them here.

I don’t use any MIDI or instrument plugins at all - I simply mix audio. Altiverb and Echoboy, and DV toolkit 2 are the main plugs I use on the desktop machines. (mostly G5 currently)

thanks

MixerGuy

[lwilliam]

Nothing negative happened when I upgraded from 7.1 to 7.3.1. I still got occasional "the processor has held offf interrupts..." messages, but at least now they can be suppressed until I mix. Then, I crank the buffers to 1024 and don't have problems.

I really like and use the right-click mouse options in 7.3. That has definitely improved workflow.

I haven't gotten into all the screensets (as they're called in Logic) now available in 7.3, but I'm sure I will find them useful soon.

[Ben Davis]

I'm enjoying the handful of features and haven't had any problems. I can't figure out how to keep the solo button from latching. I like to have it toggle and can no longer find the option in the preferences.

[MixerGuy]

I'm enjoying the handful of features and haven't had any problems. I can't figure out how to keep the solo button from latching. I like to have it toggle and can no longer find the option in the preferences.

thanks for the info

weird about that solo prefs being missing!

[bugsy28]

I've upgraded to 7.3 (m-powered)and a couple of my plug-ins had to be removed to get it to load.
I know im in the wrong forum, but i saw you use Altiverb which is one of the plug-ins that i had to remove.

might be worth hanging on a bit?

[lwilliam]

I've been using Altiverb 5 with no issues myself. There may be a small update on the Audioease site, but checking for the latest plugin versions is something I regularly do anyways - especially if I'm upgrading the main app or OS.

[MixerGuy]

I've upgraded to 7.3 (m-powered)and a couple of my plug-ins had to be removed to get it to load.
I know im in the wrong forum, but i saw you use Altiverb which is one of the plug-ins that i had to remove.

might be worth hanging on a bit?

have you been to audioease.com?

altiverb 6 is out - for intel

[Ben Davis]

The solo preferences are now at the bottom of the options menu

[MixerGuy]

thanks everybody - great info!



anyone else wanna chime in?

[MixerGuy]

I understand that now there is a new display to show how automation is written.......how does it look?

is it a dotted red line behind the waveform? (like in DP)

if you glance at the edit window, can you tell immediately if automation has been written on a track?

that feature alone would be worth it for me.