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Avid drops Pro Tools reinstatement on 01-01-2020
I received a mail from my dealer today stating that Avid drops Pro Tools reinstatement on 01-01-2020.
So if you are too late to buy a next year of your Software Updates + Support Plan you will not be able to reinstate it anymore. You will be forced to buy a new full version of the Pro Tools software (at the full price) or you will need to go the subscription route (or keep using your perpetual license without further software updates indefinitely). I do not know if the one month grace period remains active, but I guess not. Also, I checked my Avid account today: it seems the auto-renewal option for my Software Updates + Support Plan for my Pro Tools Ultimate perpetual license has disappeared. So now you need to check it yourself and put a note in your agenda to remember to buy a new year of Software Updates + Support Plan. Actually I wonder if Avid will send me mail with a warning to buy a a new year of Software Updates + Support Plan before the current one expires. Somehow I think they will not, hoping I will forget all about it and go the subscription route afterwards, because that is what they want everyone to do anyway.
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Marc Schellekens Delta Music Belgium - Dolby Atmos Music Studio https://www.deltamusic.be Mac Pro 2019 - 3.2GHz 16-core - 96GB RAM - macOS 14.4.1 - PT HDX3 - Pro Tools Ultimate 2024.3.1 - Avid HD I/O 16x16 (x2) - Avid HD I/O 16x16 Digital - Digidesign 192 I/O - Digidesign 192D I/O (x3) - Avid SYNC HD - Apogee Big Ben - Apogee Rosetta 200 - Avid S3 - Slate RAVEN MTi2 (x2) - iConnectivity mioXL (x4) - Genelec ‘The Ones’ 9.1.6 Dolby Atmos Music monitoring (AES/EBU) with 8341A (x5) + 8331A (x10) + 7360A (x2) + 9301B - Almost all available AAX-DSP plug-ins Last edited by Delta Music Belgium; 11-25-2019 at 03:43 AM. Reason: Grammar |
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Re: Avid drops Pro Tools reinstatement on 01-01-2020
Reckon they have had it in for us perpetual users since the latest changes. My plan has just come round and this time I am seriously thinking of letting it slide. I am in New Zealand so with the exchange rate it will cost me $623.00. So if I do... it seems now I can't get back. Don't think that will change my mind, Avid will be quietly squeezing the perpetual users out of the system anyway i think.. by making it harder or more expensive.
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Re: Avid drops Pro Tools reinstatement on 01-01-2020
Dear Mr. Avid
as a long time Digidesign customer (since 1987) I am thoroughly disappointed - not being able to update older versions of Pro tools is serious way to anger your customers. Hey I know the Digidesign guys who all use to be musicians are are gone now, replaced by IT engineers. Hey guys guess what? regular people do not NEED to upgrade constantly MOST people upgrade when then NEED to. Having to pay a reinstatement fee (or an annual plan) maybe is a bit of slap in the face. But the ABILITY NOT TO UPGRADE and old license is a most definitely a kick in the pants. Most of your customer are Mac folks and I buy Logic Pro for $199.00 with FREE lifetime upgrades. Your company always seems to find a way to anger your customers. |
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Re: Avid drops Pro Tools reinstatement on 01-01-2020
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Re: Avid drops Pro Tools reinstatement on 01-01-2020
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Given your current plan expires in less than a month it might be worth it. You will save almost $100 Australian.
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Re: Avid drops Pro Tools reinstatement on 01-01-2020
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I know for sure I had auto-renewal active, so Avid cancelled this without telling me...
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Marc Schellekens Delta Music Belgium - Dolby Atmos Music Studio https://www.deltamusic.be Mac Pro 2019 - 3.2GHz 16-core - 96GB RAM - macOS 14.4.1 - PT HDX3 - Pro Tools Ultimate 2024.3.1 - Avid HD I/O 16x16 (x2) - Avid HD I/O 16x16 Digital - Digidesign 192 I/O - Digidesign 192D I/O (x3) - Avid SYNC HD - Apogee Big Ben - Apogee Rosetta 200 - Avid S3 - Slate RAVEN MTi2 (x2) - iConnectivity mioXL (x4) - Genelec ‘The Ones’ 9.1.6 Dolby Atmos Music monitoring (AES/EBU) with 8341A (x5) + 8331A (x10) + 7360A (x2) + 9301B - Almost all available AAX-DSP plug-ins |
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Re: Avid drops Pro Tools reinstatement on 01-01-2020
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Matt McKenzie-Smith mattrixx.net SourceConnect - mattrixx AVID Collab user - mattrixx MacStudio Ultra / LogicProX / IzotopeRX10+ / SourceConnect / MelodyneStudio5 / WAVES Mercury / NI KompleteUltimate / ProToolsUltimate / RME UFX, UFXII, Babyface / AVID S3 + DOCK / Barefoot MM27 gen2 / Barefoot FP01 |
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