

More information on the original alert can be found here. Having built a few systems with Windows 10 and Pro Tools I confess that I’ve not tried those particular combinations but otherwise I’ve found Pro Tools to work very well on Windows 10. What these problems are is anyone’s guess. With regular Pro Tools there appears to be no such limitations other than the usual feature of not being able to cope with anything but regular 2-powered buffer sizes. HD Native – avoid using these buffer settings: There are some provisos if you are using Pro Tools HD Native or HDX. I stumbled across someone mentioning it on Facebook, otherwise there seems to be no other press release or announcement. It’s a bit weird because you’d think it was a big deal but all they did was release a little “ALERT” (in capitals so it must be important) on the System Requirements page. All we know is that someone somewhere in Avid has said “yep, it’ll be fine, let’s not make a big deal about it”. When creating a new Pro Tools session, users are now asked if they would like to create a local ‘Session’, or an online ‘Project’. Or maybe they’re aware that many people are actually using Pro Tools on Windows 10 and nothing bad has happened. With all the pieces in place, Pro Tools 12.5 finally marks the launch of cloud collaboration within Pro Tools. Maybe we’ve been waiting for the support staff to finish their Windows 10 training. At the current pricing for Pro Tools, I’d be very tempted to spend $200 on Logic X, to thoroughly evaluate it, delaying a Pro Tools update by 8 months to offset the cost.īut for now, I’ll just wait and see how my needs evolve.They haven’t released a software update that makes it compatible, it’s still the same Pro Tools 12.5 that wasn’t supported on Windows 10 just the day before. The cloud collaboration tools of version 12.5 aren’t enough to spur me to action. I’m leaning heavily towards doing nothing. Do nothing, and continue to use Pro Tools 12.4 until I see a compelling reason to update.Spend $300-360/year on a subscription or Annual Upgrade plan.But now I’m faced with a decision regarding how to move forward. I can’t complain - I spent $293.95, and I’ve definitely gotten my worth out of it. With the news that Pro Tools 12.5 will likely drop on March 31, 2016, that will mark the first release that is not included in the package I bought. It was quite a deal - it included four years of free updates.

I purchased a student license of Pro Tools 10 back on March 17, 2012.

It looks like Pro Tools 12.4 is the end of the line for me.
