Current System Limitations

[garnoil]

Originally Posted by suicune

It's currently limited by the TDM hardware - that's the entire point. They've enforced the limitations on the native systems purely so that they don't suffer a TDM users revolt (although they kinda had that anyway with PT9 - you've gotta feel a little sorry for them).

Until we see new TDM hardware cards with massively increased voice counts we're stuck with it.

You say that Native has an artificial voice limitation that Avid implemented so that Native is always "smaller-less capable" than TDM? I think this is the wrong "marketing approach" for Avid. The way things are going, In a couple of years other DAWs will run hundreds (may be even a thousand) voices and PT will still be either artificially limited in the Native version or limited by the new TDM hardware when it comes out.

[Sean Russell]

Originally Posted by digidesigner

I do care about nulling, if something perfectly nulls no matter if it was 44.1 or 88.2 khz form start then I see no reason to use more resources than needed. Will try this myself then thankyou.

But... Anything with any type of chorus/flange/time-based will not null.

And starting at 44k yields you no extra headroom for processing.

[Sean Russell]

Originally Posted by garnoil

You say that Native has an artificial voice limitation that Avid implemented so that Native is always "smaller-less capable" than TDM? I think this is the wrong "marketing approach" for Avid. The way things are going, In a couple of years other DAWs will run hundreds (may be even a thousand) voices and PT will still be either artificially limited in the Native version or limited by the new TDM hardware when it comes out.

You can't give Native unlimited voicing and keep TDM'ers on a 192/96 voice system. We'd freak out a lot louder then we did. Sessions would be showing up with us having no way to play all tracks back. it happened when Pt7 came out and I was still using MIX rigs, and it was embarrassing - 80 tracks on the hook and the G4 could only playback 64 TOTAL!!

Better marketing would have been to release new cards with 192 voices at 96k (384 voices at 44k) and then let Native go Native, voice-count-wise.