Welcome back!
Today I’m going to continue my first impressions of
Pro Tools 11.
My session is finally open and has successfully connected to my interface. The issue that I was having in the original post was attributed to my external hard drive and the error message didn’t appear when I removed it.
My session is finally open and has successfully connected to my interface. The issue that I was having in the original post was attributed to my external hard drive and the error message didn’t appear when I removed it.
The layout of the edit window looks exactly the same
as PT10 with the exception of a meter that has been placed next to the
transport at the top of the page. Right now it’s set to the master channel but
can be changed to any output or bus that you desire. While I’m here I’m going
to check out these different meters that I’ve read about. Only four?! I thought
that it said that it has 17 different metering options?! They were apparently
talking about the features of Pro Tools 11 HD. Thank you for specifying Avid. The
four options that I currently have access to are sample peak, pro tools
classic, venue peak, and venue rms. Each of these meters display a different
fader gain scale, meter type scale, track signal meter, and a gain reduction
meter (Pro Tools HD only). They have also incorporated small meters in the
sends assignments but I don’t see the practicality in them.
After reading the “What’s new in Pro Tools 11.0” pdf,
the full list of Pro Tools 11 HD metering options include: Sample Peak, Digital
VU, VU, PPM Digital, RMS, PPM DIN, K12, K14, K20, PPM Nordic, PPM BBC, PPM EBU,
Linear, Linear Extended, Venue Peak, Venue RMS, and Pro Tools Classic. It also
contains gain reduction meter types: Compressor/Limiter, Expander/Gate,
Priority Compressor/Limiter, Priority Expander/Gate, and All – Summed.
The video editing feature is pretty cool for
practical situations like editing tutorial videos or home movies. The overall
features for this are pretty limited so due to the functionality I would stick
with Final Cut if you have the option.
Lastly, I’m going to open up one of my full sessions
and bounce it in offline mode, time it to see how fast it really is, and check
the quality of the bounce. It is quite a bit faster than doing a real-time
bounce. I was able to fully bounce a 3:27 song in 32.42 seconds which was an
average of 6.38 times faster than a typical bounce. However, this is far from
the 150 times faster that is advertised. Some of this can be attributed to the
speed of the CPU but my system does have a Core i5 chip so I expected a little
better than that. At any rate, I’m still impressed with this feature. I know
many of us have been patiently waiting for them to incorporate this feature. As
for the quality of the bounce, it sounds great aside from little nuances of the
mix that I need to fix.
Overall I think that this is going to be a great
product once I am able to access full functionality and my plug-ins make their
way into the Audio Suite.
Your analysis is an invaluable service to our community. Keep it up!
ReplyDeleteHey Jared would you say that it is definitely worth the upgrade from Pro Tools 10? I have a free upgrade but was going to wait until the bugs were worked out. I also heard that some of the pro tools keyboard shortcuts have changed a little bit. I am not sure if you have come across that or not. I was actually surprised the offline bounce was that fast considering it is the first time this function has been implemented. Good info though on this matter.
ReplyDeleteHey Derek,
DeleteInstalling Pro Tools 11 will not overwrite Pro Tools 10 so you can install it and check out the new features while they are working out the bugs and still have access to PT10. I haven't come across any changes to the shortcuts yet but that wouldn't surprise me due to the added video editing functionality. I'm definitely impressed with the offline bounce.
Thanks for reading!