Avid Icon Control Surface Compatibility (D|Command/Control) with PT Studio 2022.4?

[Antigua]

What’s the likelihood compatibility with Avid Icon (D|Command/Control) has been unlocked for PT Studio along with other feature additions from PT Ultimate?

[junkgear]

PT Studio supports both HUI and Mackie Control, so the Icon controllers should work just fine.

[Pete Gates]

Suspect you might both be talking about different Icons here.

Pete

[junkgear]

Ah…. The AVID Icon…. Yeah, I don’t know about that one LOL.
There had been some confusion on which versions support controllers in general.

[Antigua]

Yeah Pete is correct, I should have written Avid Icon.. I’ll correct this now.
Very keen to know if anyone who has a D|Command/Control can test this with a PT Studio licence.

[abc1mce2]

Originally Posted by Antigua

Yeah Pete is correct, I should have written Avid Icon.. I’ll correct this now.
Very keen to know if anyone who has a D|Command/Control can test this with a PT Studio licence.

I would think that all D|Command/Control owners would be running PT Ultimate. If you have a PT Ultimate License, you also have a PT Studio license as well. The only problem is that it's in a locked group so you can't use/try them separately to run your test.

[arche3]

The cost of the icon d control was not in the console itself. It was the room I had to build and equipment to put it in. The lease for a NYC midtown commercial space. Etc...

There are still a lot of icons around in pro facilities.



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[Eric Lambert]

Originally Posted by arche3

The cost of the icon d control was not in the console itself. It was the room I had to build and equipment to put it in. The lease for a NYC midtown commercial space. Etc...

There are still a lot of icons around in pro facilities.



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Yep, we still use it, and my heart sank when I first say this thread and thought that its lifespan was ending. Thankfully, as Ultimate users, that doesn't appear to be the case.

Good point about the rooms being built around the control surface, though any new rooms we build will have smaller controllers. They're just less necessary now, and clients don't expect to be impressed by the sight of big consoles. In fact, clients don't come to sessions anymore anyway.

[LDS]

Originally Posted by Antigua

I’m certainly would be interested for music mixing, but the ultimate price of entry is now more prohibitive than ever.

It is still relatively cheap compared to what most ICON users experienced. For the first 8(?) years of ICON availability, you required a complete HD DSP hardware system. It cost a lot more than a flex subscription! Even Pro Tools software updates during that time weren't cheap. I can't remember if it was HD9 to HD10, or HD10 to HD11, but one of them cost $599, and the other $999. That was just the update!

Originally Posted by Eric Lambert

Yep, we still use it, and my heart sank when I first say this thread and thought that its lifespan was ending. Thankfully, as Ultimate users, that doesn't appear to be the case.

Good point about the rooms being built around the control surface, though any new rooms we build will have smaller controllers. They're just less necessary now, and clients don't expect to be impressed by the sight of big consoles. In fact, clients don't come to sessions anymore anyway.

I do wonder what is around the corner though. Pro Tools is still only running under Rosetta2. If Avid really are working through Pro Tools to update things module by module, it seems like an ideal time to rip out the old digidesign ethernet support. Toss in ARA2, an integrated renderer and Apple Silicon support, and with the knowledge that jumping off a support plan now means subscriptions as your only option, ICON users would be in a pretty big dilemma.

I love my D-Command, but these old things are getting a bit long in the tooth. I'm onto my second logic PSU, and third LED PSU, and about to put in the third set of new faders. I love working on it though. Much prefer it over the smaller Eucon range. I never really liked the time I spent on an S4, and could never afford an S6. The D-Command is just has such a great size vs control radio. Not to cramped. Not to big. Huge amounts of functionality.

[Eric Lambert]

I think it depend on what you've trained your brain to work with. I also like having more dedicated knobs/faders/buttons on my console (i.e. Icon or D|Command), and came from large format desks, but I've been using smaller controllers for a few years and actually prefer the menu-driven architecture and having everything at arm's length without needing to slide around.