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Old 11-03-2020, 04:39 AM
dominicperry dominicperry is offline
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Default Re: Will PT Ever Come To iPad Pro?

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Originally Posted by johnbarnesiii View Post
Thanks, would be curious to hear what you had to say about it.
My comment was eventually reinstated (now a couple of posts above).
It was about the bloated Avid management and their bloated pay packets, but not about Pro Tools coming to iPad.

To echo Darryl's comments, it doesn't make much sense that Avid would put time, effort and money into iPad development, when their core audio product on MacOS is such a mess. At the moment, the only guaranteed users of Pro Tools are studios which have a lot of money invested in Avid hardware. As far as I can tell, as much as many people love the breadth and depth of Pro Tools features and hardware integration, a combination of stability/reliability, Avid's pricing structure and their general contempt for their customer base means that most users are at least considering a move to another platform. Many will stay, because they have to or because it makes no economic sense to move, but the sheer numbers that are considering moving is a bad sign.

Of course, most of the other DAWs have a good number of disgruntled users too, and it's a bit of a merry-go-round. But there are fewer and fewer reasons to tie yourself to Pro Tools now, than even 5 years ago. And to new users, the price of admission makes no sense commpared with Logic or S1 or Ableton or Reaper. There's not even a good argument for a newbie with the sound-to-picture heritage anymore, given the QuickTime export bug when using Catalina.
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