![]() Initially, in July, I was very excited to purchase Pro Tools 12 because it has been a staple in major studios for so long, and I had just purchased a computer with respectable specs (Creation Station from Sweetwater). Currently Pro Tools is up to version 12.6. I should be receiving a refund from Avid in the next couple days for Pro Tools 12. I've never used Pro Tools, anything apple" or "i" never will.just my own bias. ![]() It seems every version of DAW software has 'some kind' of bug.as a Cubase user on a PC who builds my own machines for my private non professional home studio, I've personally have not ran into any bugs, it must be for power users doing things I've never dreamed of doing (?). And when you pin point the root cause of your problem, you can eliminate that issue on your 1st hard drive.just an option! Also when you have a perfect working DAW set up, I would (and do) use imaging software (I used Acronis) to make a copy/image, and when something go's south, instead of hours or days of installs, in less than an hour I'm back! Like mentioned above, limiting your installs to the absolute necessities, and as you go check for stability & operation. I would think about (and have) using a new/different OS/Programs hard drive in it's place. If it were me thinking about a complete wipe-out of my hard drive & a fresh install of everything. But I refuse to use a 32 bit application in 2014! The ADC bug makes it unusable as it ruins a live performance.Īvid supply you with a PT10 license as well so that you can use either on the same machine and I now see why. Cubase has bugs but nothing as serious as Pro Tools 11. ![]() In summary, I was very surprised by just how unstable and bug ridden Pro Tools 11 was. I cannot remember the last time Cubase crashed out completely on my system. Cubase gives you a serious error message but you can save your work and restart. PT11 will crash out completely if it encounters a rogue plugin and did on me repeatedly. In other words, to get the same functionality that Cubase has you have to spend roughly $1600 extra. This upgrade is not available unless you buy the AVID hardware or spend $1000 + on the CTPK + PT HD updgrade. I mix in surround a lot and I realised that to get that capability I would need the PT11 HD version. Price - I bought the regular version of PT11. The upshot of this is that many of those ports were rushed and are incredibly unstable as a consequence.ģ. AAX Plugins - there has been a huge amount of pressure placed on the plugin developers to port their software across to AAX. There are long and very bitter threads on the AVID forums about the ADC bug and the failure of the Avid team to fix it.Ģ. If you bounce an audio track with plugins, it goes out of sync and you have to manually adjust the delay to get it back in time. Automatic Delay compensation bug - if you split the outputs on a virtual instrument, if you apply any send to the aux ins they go out of sync. It is now my conclusion that as a DAW, Protools currently is simply not fit for purpose. ![]() However, as I got deeper, PT11 started to unravel. I did look at the Avid forum which was quite negative but if you read the Cubase forum as an outsider you would never buy Cubase either! Initially, I enjoyed the challenge of an alternative approach. I recently bought PT11 having been on a long time Cubase user with a view to learning it.
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