So... Pro Tools 10 is out and Avid has laid off many of the people who helped make it and version 11 possible. It certainly sounds terrible, but I'll reserve judgement as I don't have all the facts yet. Considering how their stock price has fallen over the last year, perhaps their options were limited, although the timing of it certainly seems rather cold and calculated.
As for Pro Tools 10 itself... it isn't 64 bit, which is what I was really hoping for. It does have some nice features which I could get excited about, such as clip gain and new Audiosuite functions, but I'll probably skip this version and wait for 11.
Clip Gain is great, adding a new level of gain adjustment without having to draw in automation or process Audiosuite gain. Clip gain can even have envelopes - creating a new layer of automation, which enables you to leave the primary automation lane intact without resorting to trim automation. This is fantastic especially for post work and for sound design, where the levels of individual assets would previously need to be modified with AudioSuite GAIN processing or with automation.
What would have been nice to see was for them to take Clip Gain one or two steps further and implement beyond the features that Ableton Live offers in that area. In Ableton, individual clips on the fly can be pitch shifted, time stretched, reversed, gated, and contain individual envelopes that modulate more than just gain. Pro Tools can do the stretching and pitch-shifting when Elastic Audio is enabled on a particular track, but it still isn't quite as elegant as Ableton's design.
More to come on Pro Tools 10 later, I am still learning my way through the new features manual, even though I probably won't be picking this version up.
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