Pro Tools 2019 !

[justinhill]

Sad thing is it could have been so different. Avid should have released a 2019.1 in January with nothing new except Mojave compatibility, then, while we were all grousing about it, love-bomb us with 2019.2, 2019.3 and 2019.4 each with a bit more of the new stuff switched on, and finally 2019.5 with everything in it. We'd all have been going "this is more like it! New stuff every month!"

[jasonkalman]

Originally Posted by justinhill

Sad thing is it could have been so different. Avid should have released a 2019.1 in January with nothing new except Mojave compatibility, then, while we were all grousing about it, love-bomb us with 2019.2, 2019.3 and 2019.4 each with a bit more of the new stuff switched on, and finally 2019.5 with everything in it. We'd all have been going "this is more like it! New stuff every month!"

Great solution!

[marsian]

Originally Posted by justinhill

Sad thing is it could have been so different. Avid should have released a 2019.1 in January with nothing new except Mojave compatibility, then, while we were all grousing about it, love-bomb us with 2019.2, 2019.3 and 2019.4 each with a bit more of the new stuff switched on, and finally 2019.5 with everything in it. We'd all have been going "this is more like it! New stuff every month!"

Absolutely!

I think a company cannot treat his customers like Avid does, when they are paying a good amount of money for improvements.


Cheers
Maik

[QuikDraw]

Originally Posted by justinhill

Sad thing is it could have been so different. Avid should have released a 2019.1 in January with nothing new except Mojave compatibility, then, while we were all grousing about it, love-bomb us with 2019.2, 2019.3 and 2019.4 each with a bit more of the new stuff switched on, and finally 2019.5 with everything in it. We'd all have been going "this is more like it! New stuff every month!"

That sounds like what a software subscription should be. A steady stream of well tested small releases to fix things or enhance compatibility with an occasional big feature release. Why Avid chooses to hold all the small stuff back so it can all come in one big release doesn't make any sense on a subscription model.

[capt kirk]

Our solution , years ago, was to lock down our systems at 10.3.8...its rock solid, and no internet or crap on the local stations....hooked to a LAN which has the server which is totally buffered via firewall etc from the outside world.
Once we had that version perfect we have one test rig with the latest stuff, and we're trying to get it as solid as pt10.....pt11 was a liability, worse than useless...PT12 certain versions very stable, but alas no folders.....once we get our test version WITH FOLDERS and working as solid as the pt10 systems, with perfect backward compatability, THEN we will upgrade the whole thing,and more importantly CLAMP IT OFF. but until then we will just test the one station rathe rthan risk our jobs and clients to the ridiculous hamster wheel of OS / PT bug fest....let some other person figure it out, ive got work to do...

[Sardi]

Originally Posted by QuikDraw

That sounds like what a software subscription should be. A steady stream of well tested small releases to fix things or enhance compatibility with an occasional big feature release. Why Avid chooses to hold all the small stuff back so it can all come in one big release doesn't make any sense on a subscription model.

And is the EXACT opposite of what they told everyone when they switched to the subscription model.

It’s literally what they said would happen. More frequent small releases rather than holding back features and rolling them into one update.


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[bolooki]

Originally Posted by Sardi

And is the EXACT opposite of what they told everyone when they switched to the subscription model.

It’s literally what they said would happen. More frequent small releases rather than holding back features and rolling them into one update.


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can you find a screen shot of where they publicized that? lets repost it

[jasonkalman]

Originally Posted by bolooki

can you find a screen shot of where they publicized that? lets repost it

http://duc.avid.com/showthread.php?t=370166 post #5


http://avid.force.com/pkb/articles/e...-Licensing-FAQ

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[massivekerry]

Originally Posted by justinhill

Sad thing is it could have been so different. Avid should have released a 2019.1 in January with nothing new except Mojave compatibility, then, while we were all grousing about it, love-bomb us with 2019.2, 2019.3 and 2019.4 each with a bit more of the new stuff switched on, and finally 2019.5 with everything in it. We'd all have been going "this is more like it! New stuff every month!"

Unless their plan was to do major re-coding on the audio engine, wrapped up in the Mojave update, and the 2 goals were so brained in the code that they could not have unspooled the Mojave update from the whole project. It may have seemed ambitious, but they thought they could do it? There’s no way to know what’s going on behind the scenes, unless they tell us. I would be willing to bet that the whole dev team is unhappy about how this 2019 rollout has gone.

[capt kirk]

couldnt make a 'splash' at a trade show so just moved it forward....