Just about one year ago, Avid rocked the recording world with Pro Tools 9, which introduced significant changes. Now, Pro Tools 10 has arrived, and it’s filled with major changes of its own. But that’s not all that Avid unveiled, they also introduced the brand-new HDX DSP card platform and the AAX (Avid Audio eXtension) plug-in format.
There are way too many new things to cover here, but some of the highlights include:
PRO TOOLS 10 and PRO TOOLS 10 HD
- Clip Gain — individual gain control and automation per region.
- Disk Cache (HD only) — load your session completely into RAM for extremely fast operation
- AudioSuite — multiple windows can now be open, handles allow for more flexible processing, reverse delay/reverb processing, maintains 32-bit float quality.
- Disk Scheduler — completely re-written to allow Pro Tools to access NAS (network attached storage) or slow media, such as USB thumb drives.
- AAX — a brand-new DSP and native plug-in format that paves the way to the move to 64-bit operation. Pro Tools 10 still does TDM and RTAS.
- Channel Strip — new AAX channel-strip plug-in based on the DSP in the Euphonix System 5 digital console.
- Downmix — converts your multi-channel audio to stereo or even to mono.
- DelayMod 3 — brand-new AAX delay plug-in
- Eucon — more than 500 commands have been added. Basically you can now do everything in Pro Tools’ menus through EuCon.
- Solo/Mute status indicators — no more searching through a large session to find the soloed or muted track.
- Real-time fades — no more lost fade files! You can even adjust fades while Pro Tools is playing.
- Export to New Session — choose the tracks you want and export them to a new session.
- File support — multiple file formats and bit depths and stereo interleaved files in a session, without converting to new disk files.
- Export to iTunes and Export to SoundCloud — fast and easy ways to distribute your music.
- And much, much more!
HDX
- New DSP processing card provides 3-7 times the power of an HD card
- A single HDX card is more powerful than previous HD3
- Even lower latency
- New plug-in format — AAX DSP and Native
- 32-bit floating point audio
- 32-bit float plug-ins, no dither, no more problems with plug-in clipping
- 64-bit floating-point mix bus
- lower price compared to comparable HD Accel power
- Twice as long delay compensation
- 4x the voices — 256 per card
- 2x the I/O — up to four interfaces per card for up to 64 ins/outs per card
