réactions à la news Avid dévoile Pro Tools 11

Pro Tools est disponible depuis ce cette nuit, et pour les curieux, quelques vidéos des nouvelles fonctionnalités. Je n'avais pas connaissance de cette nouvelle gestion des buffers, très appétissant pour ceux qui n'ont pas les moyens d'investir dans un HD.

JM

J'ai installé l'ilok Licences Manager sur mon Mac, et il ne fonctionne pas. Le patron de Pace (le dev de l'iLok) a envoyé une lettre à ses clients (les développeurs) pour expliquer combien il avait honte de ce qu'il se passe et que cela l'empêche de dormir. On peut lire la lettre ici.

En voici le texte :

"Hello,

This is Allen Cronce, President of PACE.

The past week has been one of the hardest weeks of my entire life. As I read through this thread, it honestly pains me that our mistakes have caused so much frustration and interrupted workflow. I haven’t been able to sleep and can barely eat. I know I should have addressed you all sooner, but I feel such shame for how this new launch has been executed, that I've been focusing our efforts on getting to a resolution, so you can all get back to work. I've never been in a situation like this and I realize our customer relations skills have been severely lacking. If you read on, you will see how I plan to change this.

I started PACE because I am passionate about technology. I know the amount of work that companies large and small go through to develop great software products and I truly believe that these software products need to be protected from piracy. PACE has had a long run without many hiccups, which is something rare for any technology company.

That is why this past Monday I was shocked to see that the software that we at PACE have all been working on so hard for the past few years was launched with such unexpected technical errors… errors that have caused some users like you to be troubleshooting rather than working. I cannot tell you how upsetting that is to our entire team.

Even though its introduction has been rough, I am still very proud of the new iLok License Manager. The sole purpose of our new product is to make the iLok system better for you, the customer. We will get it working. We will make this right. We will prove to you that we are good people, honest people, with a good product that has the best intentions: to protect your investment and to protect the software industry's hard work.

Although our support team is working around the clock, I plan to improve our customer support so we can help you more effectively. We're going to update our website with more information and alert new users of the potential problems… something we should have done earlier. I was just optimistic that we'd have a solution earlier, but this was a mistake and I'm truly sorry.

We will continue to work with customers to solve issues they have had with the new iLok License Manager. We will maintain a presence here and post updates of our progress.

Once again, we realize we have let you down. The best thing we can do at this point is continue to focus our efforts on solving any outstanding problems to make sure our customers are up and running. You are going to see some big changes at PACE. 

Allen Cronce"

JM

Citation de Neil Erua :

 pourquoi AVID enchaîne les versions à votre avis ?

 Ce n'est que mon avis, mais il ont décidé de passer au natif parce que le marché du HD diminue et que leur modèle soft + interface obligatoire n'offre pas du tout la garantie de développement de leur niche.

Du coup, il sont dans l'obligation de combler leur retard en fonctionnalité et en performances (en natif), et ceci sans entamer ce qui fait à mon avis la force de Pro Tools, sa simplicité et le fait que chaque version ne bouleverse pas le workflow de l'utilisateur.

Par contre, dans cette hypothèse, j'avoue ne pas comprendre le fait qu'ils abandonnent le CPTK.

On ne trouve que les mises à jour du HD simplement parce que le soft ne peut pas être vendu seul, il est "offert" avec une carte HDX.

Je te confirme, pas au delà sans HD à partir de la v11, sauf pour les possesseurs du CPTK qui auront accès à la version HD du soft, au même prix que la mise à jour de la version HD (570€).

JM