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If you rely on these features, or any specific plug-ins, we recommend you check before upgrading. These features aren’t dead though – many will be making their way into future updates.

Pro tools 11 pro#

Avid has had to prioritise making Pro Tools a stable and useful DAW over some minor features such as drag and drop into Structure, Time Compression Expansion or TL Space. There are some missing features and plug-ins, which is to be expected. The changes are under the hood, with as much functionality retained in the same places as previously to make it a smooth transition for users. However, users will still feel on familiar ground.

Pro tools 11 code#

Pro Tools 11 is a big rewrite compared to previous versions, much of the underlying code is new, especially when directly compared with Pro Tools 9. These mini meters are a little hard to see, but they can be useful for quickly seeing where any problems may be occurring.

These sit in the Inserts and Sends section of the Mix window and provide a quick visual representation of the level being sent to any send, and the gain reduction being applied by any compatible dynamics processors on an insert. Money in the Meter – Pro Tools 11’s New Metering Options While the new metering options and gain reduction meters have only been added to Pro Tools HD 11, all users gain access to the new mini meters.

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It might however be useful for bouncing stems, or bouncing alternate versions (acapella, instrumental, TV mix, vocal down, etc.).

We like to run our mixes through external hardware which, of course, will not be able to work offline, and even if we were doing an entirely in-the-box mix, listening to the final bounce is such a key factor in our workflow, we can’t count the number of times we’ve made small changes at this stage.

Pro tools 11 Offline#

Offline bounce isn’t actually going to change much of how we like to work in the studio. This is around 30 times faster than real-time, but Avid claims that Pro Tools 11 is capable of up to 150 times faster than real-time. We bounced a 55 minute live performance we’d multi-tracked (24 channels) in under two minutes on our Mac Mini test system. The new audio engine finally breaks it out, and it does so with gusto. Pretty much all other DAWs have this but Pro Tools was left out because of the real-time nature of the audio engine. Offline Bounce in Pro Tools 11 Probably the most requested feature on the forums, offline bounce, is in Pro Tools 11.

Pro tools 11 install#

In the meantime, Pro Tools 11 includes an install of Pro Tools 10.3.6 which we can use for legacy sessions containing plug-ins that have not yet been upgraded. Hopefully this is only a small hurdle and we imagine most developers will be working overtime to get their plug-ins up and ready for Pro Tools 11. However, this move also means that not only do none of our old RTAS or TDM plug-ins work, but that some of our AAX plug-ins don’t work either, as they weren’t written for the 64-bit AAX2 architecture. This is mostly noticeable for samplers, which can now load entire massively multi-sampled instruments meaning you no longer have to worry about disk streaming. This new architecture affects plug-ins too, enabling 64-bit AAX plug-ins to access massive amounts of RAM. However, what they provide is a faster, more efficient system, and we were able to load up massive sessions with a hundred tracks and hundreds of plug-ins with no bother – sessions we might previously have sub-mixed to take some of the pressure off the system. You can see evidence of them in the System Usage pop-up and the Playback Settings window, but they occur under the hood.

This frees system resources for other purposes enabling you to load much busier, more complex sessions without stretching your system.įor users, most of the new audio engine features happen in the background. Plug-ins no-longer use system resources when they aren’t passing audio. In addition to switching the processing to 64-bit, the new AAE includes dynamic plug-in handling, which makes much more efficient use of multi-processor systems. But the AAE brings about a 64-bit architecture, which takes greater advantage of modern processors to work faster and access greater amounts of RAM without awkward workarounds. Pro Tools 10 brought in 64-bit audio processing (both in native systems and on HDX hardware), providing a much greater dynamic range than the previous 32-bit audio engine (or 48-bit fixed-point on TDM hardware). Note that 64-bit architecture is not the same as 64-bit audio processing. This brings Pro Tools up to date, alongside SONAR, Logic and Cubase/Nuendo, which have all had 64-bit architecture for some time. The DAE is gone, replaced by an all new 64-bit Avid Audio Engine (AAE). Pro Tools 11’s New Engine The biggest single change to Pro Tools 11 is the overhaul of the audio engine.