Is Pro Tools 12 resource hungry?

[trtzbass]

resource hungry? if you are speaking of bank accounts... why yes it is!!! lol

avid (ăvˈĭd)
adj.
Having an ardent desire or unbounded craving; greedy

Coincidence? I think not...

[elxsound]

Kinda. But it's a lot more complex than that. I doubt if PT has been an overwhelming favorite for "personal studios" since... decades... for multiple reasons. Otoh, the guys who mostly do it for a living (full time AE's using PT) don't change easily, if ever.

They tend to get a system humming and leave it completely alone, not playing games or installing all kinds of unrelated things that may potentially cause issues with it or the system. It's a business. "Studios", full time studios, have no real relationship to the consumer world. When things work they leave them alone and just ... make money.

But yeah, I thought Cubase was a much better product for the home or personal studio 20 years ago and still feel the same way. Even so, if I opened a large room I'd certainly (also) have a PT system in it.

Pretty much spot on. I was in a dubbing suite a couple of weeks ago who were still on PT12.4, and they clearly had no issues with it, whereas I broke it in minutes (*pride*) because I do things in a slightly different way. I quickly hit a bug long since fixed from 12.4, so hanging on to old versions has its drawbacks too.

Anyway, I find PT pretty efficient using AAX effects, but I do all my music work in Cubase because it's so much better for midi and VIs. When it comes to VIs, my understanding is that PT is still not really very efficient. But there again, Cubase isn't either - Reaper is approximately 2x as efficient, but Cubase is still better here than PT I think.

So for pure audio work PT is great, but not so much for midi (again, imo), but they have made some great improvements in the past year or two which could yet lure me back over. For example, PTs implementation of Track Presets blows Cubase out of the water.

And that also hits it right on from my experience too... Midi work tends to CPU intensive, but working with audio and effects not as much.

With that said, I have a new setup and have not installed PT 12 (sub long lapsed) because I did not like the experience with their Application Manager. That slowed my computer down on startup tremendously and things improved once I deleted that program.

I've also had lots of weird conflicts with their software and other software installed going back years ago, so I just figured its better to move on... plus I hate their business model. I still feel like I got misled on their perpetual license BS that left me with a buggy 12.wherever I last left off (but that's another story).

There's still lots of people that love using PT. And I think its great for audio editing, but I would never create in it even if I know there's people out there that still do (and it sounds like the OP won't be doing that anyways). But as stated... Have not noticed anything substantially resource heavy when just working with audio and effects (unless compared to Reaper, which is just very efficient).

[elxsound]

resource hungry? if you are speaking of bank accounts... why yes it is!!! lol

avid (ăvˈĭd)
adj.
Having an ardent desire or unbounded craving; greedy

Coincidence? I think not...

Haha... Well, publicly traded companies tend to have strange policies sometimes, that often can be called greedy.

[noiseboyuk]

With that said, I have a new setup and have not installed PT 12 (sub long lapsed) because I did not like the experience with their Application Manager. That slowed my computer down on startup tremendously and things improved once I deleted that program.

Agree with your whole post, but just to pick up on this for future ref - I just delete Application Manager each time after I install a new version. It's entirely unnecessary and does a lousy job, and everything works just fine without it.