What's New in Pro Tools 11

This week the music industry is just buzzing with word of the new standard for digital audio workstations. Avid has just announced Pro Tools 11, which has some long awaited changes that may seem minor to some, but drastically change the way artists, producers, and engineers work.
Avid has fully redesigned the audio engine and 64-bit architecture. The Avid Audio Engine will dramatically improve the processing power (multiple times that of Pro Tools 10) on the same hardware configurations. The 64-bit architecture will exponentially increase the performance of sophisticated sessions with simultaneous virtual instruments.
The change that everyone seems to be talking about most is the Offline Bounce. With no longer having to wait, you will have your mix bounced and ready to go up to 150 times faster than in real time! You will also be able to bounce WAV and MP3 simultaneously – which is pretty awesome. If you’re an organizational freak, you may also like to know that there will now be a folder for your bounced files in your Session folder - Avid says, “You’re welcome.”
Personally, I’m excited about the new metering options that will be at my disposal. Besides the broad range of built-in metering options from peak and average VU and PPM, we’ll also now have gain reduction for all dynamics plug-ins on each channel. For all those visual people out there, like me, this is going to be very helpful. They’re also bigger – in fact, the track meters are 30% taller with higher resolution – Quick! What’s the Quick Key for Narrow Faders?!
There’s also a big change for any post production people out there – you can actually edit video in Pro Tools properly! Not only can you now edit video in Pro Tools, but it’s now in HD. The Media Composer Avid Video Engine is now integrated into Pro Tools. We’ve gained the ability to play formats such as XD Cam, Avid HNX HD, Avid DNX HD, MXF HD, Apple Pro Res, as well as others formatted by Avid Media Composer. Along with the Media Composer Avid Video Engine now being integrated, Pro Tools will support the same range of video interfaces, including Avid Mojo DX, Avid Nitris DX, AJA, Black Magic Design, etc. I’m sure everyone who does post production is finally screaming, “Thank you!”
There’s so much more yet to find out with Pro Tools 11. I’m very excited to get my hands on it and learn all of the different smaller things we have yet to know. Please feel free to share any knowledge of changes you find in Pro Tools 11!
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