Avid’s website talks about the unveiling of the new Pro Tools 10. It only seems like yesterday that Pro Tools 9 was making its way into my studio. I am going to discuss the new improvements I found most impressive. Then, I will give important examples to enhance workflow. Third, I will give a few tips and tricks to utilize the enhancements most effectively. Let’s get started.

Clip Gain

This feature gives the ability for increasing/decreasing the volume of recorded audio real-time, pre-fader without using audiosuite plugins. The greatest effect Clip Gain has on the workflow is using it as a visual reference from one recorded take to the next of how each recording matches up volume wise by just looking at the waveform. The clips can be chosen all together or one by one. It should be noted that the word “clip” has replaced its predecessor referred to as “region” inside Pro Tools.

32-Bit Floating Point Resolution

Pro Tools has enhanced the digital headroom for Pro Tools 10 by utilizing 32-Bit resolution instead of 24-Bit. That allows more sorts of audio sources to be used fro other recorded projects. Also, more can be done to process the audio before you start to hear artifacts or clipping. Keep in mind the same care to gain-staging, compression, and eq should still be used.

Enhanced RAM usage

Pro Tools 10 houses more information into your RAM than ever before. You can use all of the RAM minus 3GB (MAC) or 4GB (PC) to take the stress off CPU usage. So, if you have lots of RAM, but your computer is freezing…now you have a way out! Add more RAM and take some of the strain off of your computer…and it actually works this time!

4x’s the Automatic Delay Compensation

There is now up to 16K worth of delay compensation as opposed to 2K. Have you ever used complex routing that made your tracks need more delay compensation than you could muster? If you use UAD plugins you may run into this issue. The issue is resolved with more ADC. The only setback is that even with more ADC, if you go over approximately 1K of compensation, then you will not be able to effectively play notes live. However, higher settings for ADC do function perfectly for mixing.

System 5 Console EQ, Compression, Gating Channel Strip

New free plugin has been added to comprehensively get all major tasks to a recorded audio signal done with great flexibility. No need for multiple plugins taking up crucial CPU. I do wish it had 7 bands of EQ instead of 4 main EQ points.

Reverse Reverb

This enhancement is not readily available, but the audiosuite plugins got a facelift. One enhanced feature is the ability to make the reverbs go reverse! This saves steps in re-producing amazing sounding sound effects linked to reverse reverb creation.

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