hiya, just wondering if pT 11 is that much better? money an issue, so i hesitate, but anyone out there made the jump, are you glad you did? my mac is burly enough to take advantage of the 64-bit archit. might be foolish not to go for it ?
YES upgrade!! The one and only "issue" right now is that not all companies have ported their plugins to AAX. Eventually most everyone will.
Pro Tools 11 is a new program from the ground up. It looks the same, but the performance is amazing. Offline Bounce is FINALLY a reality. Lots of great new features.
I'm a logic man myself, but i know a lot of people who have made the jump, some loved it, some went back. The biggest issue most of them had was the actual plugin's. If you've invested a bit of money on RTAS plugs (32bit), quite a few of them don't yet have an AAX (64bit) version, so by simply upgrading they no longer had access to a big chunk of their investment. If you're just using the stock plugs then this isn't really a massive issue, just putting it out there that this was one of the bigger things people ran into.
When you say your mac is barely enough to take advantage of the 64bit architecture, how so? What are the specs?
thanks for replies, I've been researching around, looks like most of my plug-ins (UA, Slate, NI) will be compatible with PT 11, updates all seem to be free (correct me if i'm wrong? makes sense the VST companies would want to keep up with PT). Will probably go ahead when I've got the cash, but, UA updates are still in a beta version, i'd prefer to wait til that is smoothed out a bit more-- I'm trying to reach a state of completion for current projects and make the jump when I'm at some sort of pause before taking on the next big pile of tracks. Bottom line is, no need to hurry.