thinking of selling firebox to get a mbox2, any advice?

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Yes, it can, i have Pro tools 6.7 TDM running on my FW 410 with no extra hardware. I can give u screen shots to prove it..

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You have a TDM system without hardware? You'll need more than a screenshot to convince me of that!

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Yes, please provide screenshots.
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WTF? I'm so effing confused how that's possible

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Mr. Tunes wrote:WTF? I'm so effing confused how that's possible
Exactly. Support for M-Audio cards exists in ProTools M-Powered, which is ostensibly a modified version of PT LE. LE only supports specific Digidesign hardware.

Meanwhile the hardware compatibility page for ProTools TDM specifically states it requires Digidesign hardware

http://www.digidesign.com/compato/osx/hd/
Pro Tools HD software will not work without Digidesign hardware connected
Note that Digidesign make a clear distinction on their pages between their 'own' Digidesign hardware, and M-Audio hardware.

And anyways, why would you buy a TDM system, then not use the included £1500-a-card TDM system? Not only that, but if you own 6.7 or later, the update to 6.9 is free, So why still be using 6.7?
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Sorry for goin OT there. I just wanted to show how much Digidesign rip off their customers. The Core card basically has the same DSP as the accel card, however it costs like 5x as much :s. PT TDM
uses the core card as a kind of dongle so you are forced to buy it. Any how, it is possible to make PT think that the M audio is a core card.

Back on topic, I would be inclined to keep the Fire box and learn Sonar. Otherwise I would save yourself some cash, get an M audio FW card and M-powered. If your not into MIDI too much, the audio features on PT are great and very quick.

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PT TDM
uses the core card as a kind of dongle so you are forced to buy it.
No you arent, you can run LE or M-Powered As it is, Im suspecting you didnt buy a TDM system, yeah?
Any how, it is possible to make PT think that the M audio is a core card.
With a crack of some kind.
An idiot on Set Theory:
"In some cases there is an object called red that contains everything that is red. In much the same way a pot is a plate."

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WTF!!!!Does this remove the limitations of the LE system? Like max 32 ch. for instance?
Of course this can't be legal.
And for Digidesign ripping their customers off.You're not paying only for the Core card. It comes with software. If it is worth it is up to each customer to decide. It's not like it is a secret or something.

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it runs 64 channel, beat detective on multi channels etc. Digidesign could sell TDM to m-audio users if they wanted, no core card required, but obviously they wouldnt wanna do that.

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jupiter8 wrote:WTF!!!!Does this remove the limitations of the LE system? Like max 32 ch. for instance?
No both TDM and LE had this limitation but PT 7 got rid of it :-)
What a nutty discovery this thread has revealed. :shock:

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