When my core card went down several years ago, I was completely out of commission until I was able to get it repaired.Īlso new to HDX was Avid’s decision to build the card around the Texas Instruments’ (TI) range of DSP chips rather than utilizing the latest chip in Freescale’s 56k family of DSP. This means if you have a two card system and one card goes down, you can remove the bad card and continue working but with half the resources.
#PRO TOOLS HD X PRO#
In the past, Pro Tools used a dual-card architecture that incorporated a core card with one or more Accel cards. To handle the increased DSP required due to higher channel counts, HDX utilizes a new card architecture that triples the number of time slots available on the processing bus from 512 to 1536. Pro Tools currently supports the use of three Pro Tools HDX cards within a system and more cards will likely be supported in the future. The HDX card includes two DigiLink Mini ports that can each support two interfaces. The RAM-cached record/playback and real-time fades make the DAW’s response immediate even when working with lengthy and/or high track-count projects. Pro Tools HDX supports audio up to 32-bit, 192 kHz and it utilizes the new AAX plug-in platform. The card is 64-bit ready, so when Pro Tools makes the jump to 64-bit, the card will not have to be replaced. Pro Tools HDX utilizes floating-point calculations for plug-in processing and mixing, resulting in more headroom and a level of sound quality previously not possible with Pro Tools.
It supports 4x more tracks (up to 768 voices) double the ins and outs with up to 64 channels of I/O per card (up to 256 total) and 4x longer Automatic Delay Compensation. FeaturesĪ single Pro Tools HDX card provides up to 5x more power than a Pro Tools|HD Accel card. So yes, it’s time to move into the next generation of Pro Tools performance. It’s interesting to note that Pro Tools|Mix had only been in the marketplace for four years before HD was released, but HD has had a decade-long life without being updated. Pro Tools HDX was officially launched at last October’s AES show and it represents a major step forward as well as a major change to the Pro Tools platform. Avid released the amazing HD Native system two years ago and, while this platform is adequate for most users (its 32-bit floating point processing provides higher quality audio processing than HD Accel), it lacks the power and speed required by some high-end Pro Tools users. After a long, glorious life, the platform has finally matured into an aging system in need of retirement. Pro Tools HD has spent a decade at the pinnacle of the recording industry where it has been the staple system against which every DAW is measured.
Generation HDX provides Pro Tools users with Avid’s most powerful and fastest DAW to date.
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