[adam]

Avid sent me an email a month or two ago about the release of Pro Tools
9. It said that the software finally works with all third party
USB/Firewire I/O interfaces. Is this true for the LE version or just HD?

Thanks,
-Adam

[Mike Rivers]

On 11/18/2010 4:08 PM, Adam wrote:
Avid sent me an email a month or two ago about the release
of Pro Tools 9. It said that the software finally works with
all third party USB/Firewire I/O interfaces. Is this true
for the LE version or just HD?

My, you must be pretty important to have received that
information a month or two ago. Us peons had to wait until a
couple of weeks ago at the AES show.

Anyway, LE is going away. It, and M-Powered Pro Tools are
both being replaced by Pro Tools 9, which will work with
existing Digidesign and M-Audio hardware respectively, as
well as other hardware that has a Windows ASIO driver or is
recognized by Apple Core Audio.

HD is still a separate version which only works with HD
hardware since it depends on the DSP in the hardware cards.


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[Richard Kuschel]

On Nov 18, 2:42*pm, Mike Rivers wrote:
On 11/18/2010 4:08 PM, Adam wrote:

Avid sent me an email a month or two ago about the release
of Pro Tools 9. It said that the software finally works with
all third party USB/Firewire I/O interfaces. Is this true
for the LE version or just HD?

My, you must be pretty important to have received that
information a month or two ago. Us peons had to wait until a
couple of weeks ago at the AES show.

Anyway, LE is going away. It, and M-Powered Pro Tools are
both being replaced by Pro Tools 9, which will work with
existing Digidesign and M-Audio hardware respectively, as
well as other hardware that has a Windows ASIO driver or is
recognized by Apple Core Audio.

HD is still a separate version which only works with HD
hardware since it depends on the DSP in the hardware cards.

--
"Today's production equipment is IT based and cannot be
operated without a passing knowledge of computing, although
it seems that it can be operated without a passing knowledge
of audio." - John Watkinson

http://mikeriversaudio.wordpress.com- useful and
interesting audio stuff

I just got my version of Protools 9.

Installing it wasn't too difficult, but I misread a Serial # on my 002
box.

Why this version of the software that supposedly doesn't require
digidesgn (AVID) hardware would require a Serial # is beyond me.

Of course since I hadn't registered this piece of software, I wasn't
able to contact anybody at AVID to help me get it running.
Fortunately, the tech people at Swee****er did help me though by the
time I finally got to them, I was in a screaming fit of white hot
rage.

When are these people going to learn that Serial numbers should be
written in readable fonts and don't use so many O's and 0's mixed in
with a Q and an A that looks like an R?

It seems to have cured a problem I was having with Core Audio not
allowing a quit.