best componants for a protools 12 computer build

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Pro Tools 11HD was a huge game changer for Windows users. Incredibly fast boot times, even on Windows 7 with Microsoft Security Essentials (antivirus) installed. The latest 5800 i7’s with DDR4 memory and SATA3 utterly scream along. I needed to go mobile quickly and had a limited budget and so chose to “cross to the dark side”. It also has the best connectivity for the money - a similar spec new Windows laptop being more than 50% more expensive.

Best componants for a protools 12 computer build upgrade#

The reason I bought the specific MacBook Pro that I did - a 2.2GHz i7 Quad core 2011 model, was that the construction allowed me to easily upgrade the RAM, and change the internal hard drive and optical drive into SSDs. It does require extra software to read HFS, but then Macs also need software to write to NTFS drives properly. My system can read and write to NTFS, FAT, exFAT and HFS. I have plenty of power outlets within the case, so I don’t have to mess around with Y-connectors or worry about my PSU capabilities. I have enough PCIe slots to fit whatever GPU I wish and still fit a BlackMagic video card and Audio DSP cards should I wish to. On a Windows system, USB actually runs pretty quickly, and is more reliable than FireWire. These are all industry standard connections, so you have an incredible choice of hardware. Windows systems can use the following connections – PCIe, USB2, USB3, USB3.1, Thunderbolt 2, Firewire 400 & 800, Serial, VGA, DVI, HDMI, DP, M2, SATA, the list goes on and on. Up until this, Windows users have been restricted to using ASIO interfaces or running Asio4All.

However there is currently a bug that prevents video working properly when using WASAPI. In Pro Tools 12, Avid have opened up your choice of audio interfaces even more, with WASAPI support. Since upgrading my hardware due to a steadily worsening motherboard issue (it had reached pensionable age), I have not seen the BSOD once.

Best componants for a protools 12 computer build install#

Hopefully if you get your hardware and software install right, then you shouldn’t be seeing the BSOD. In Windows 8.1, the BSOD (Blue Screen of Death) has been replaced with a less informative but friendlier screen.

Yes, the “Blue Screen of Death” is scary, with all its hexadecimal and technical terms, but to the trained eye, and with the help of the app “BlueScreenViewer”, it generally gleans more information than the “grey multilingual screen of doom” or indeed the “bombs” you used to get on Macs. I’m not going to say it’s perfect, but in over 20 years of using both, I can safely say that both Windows and OS-X have as many issues and idiosyncratic error messages as each other. The Windows operating system is verging on “marmite”, but with Windows there are three bands instead of two - love it, hate it, or tolerate it. One easy fix is to use an Apple Keyboard, and switch your keyboard settings to US layout. The only thing you might notice is that the CMD (Windows Key) and ALT keys are the other way round on a Windows UK keyboard, as are the quote marks and the symbol. User Experienceįor the most part, once you’re in Pro Tools, there’s little or no difference in the user experience. But for now I wanted to outline why I use Pro Tools on the Windows platform as my Pro Tools computer.

My entire career has been spent using Windows, Mac and proprietary systems for audio post production, and currently I use both Windows and Mac on a regular basis, and indeed also own a MacBook Pro as a Pro Tools computer, which I bought recently. Alan Sallabank here, first a bit of background.