OH Wow, ProTools 9!
November 9, 2010 in Gear, Music, Updates
Well, if you haven’t heard yet, ProTools is officially at Version 9 now! AND it works on ANY audio interface hardware – ASIO, Audio Units, ANYthing! Does it mean that we’re old because we still have an unopened box of Sound Designer 1.0 from 1984? :) (For you youngsters, Sound Designer was the great-grandaddy of ProTools and the first product ever to come from what was known then as Digidesign.) Old is good sometimes, but mostly new is better in the case of software.
There’s a ton on new features in ProTools 9, see an overview here and then click here for detailed info on the new features. One of the MOST requested and exciting features of the new PT9, other than working with non-Avid hardware, is ADC, which stands for Automatic Delay Compensation. Basically, that is when one adds a plugin into the session, the DAW software now polls the plugin for its inherent latency and then compensates the timing of the playback accordingly, giving a much more phase-coherent and solid-sounding track.
Not sure which ProTools is right for you? Click here for a comparison chart of all the new PT9s and the previous PT8s. There is no more ‘LE’, only ProTools9 and ProTools9HD, with the addition of the Complete Production Toolkit 2 option for PT9 only (PT9HD already contains the features of the Complete Production Toolkit 2).
OK, what a deal! How much for it and can one get an upgrade from older versions of ProTools? Click here to find out (and don’t get sidetracked – they are ‘upgrades’ meaning one must own previous ProTools to qualify, Avid calls them ‘crossgrades’.) Even though they are called crossgrades, they are not ‘crossgradeable’ from competitive products, only from previous versions of ProTools. Just sayin’…
Have fun!
