Hi Brian
I had the NT PT, The PT free is a Win98se beta. My NT system ran the
same way even on a PIII800 I had A LOT of crashes, It was VERY slow.
Track count was if it felt like working, Digi plugins were OK, If I
used Acid on Digi hardware I could only use 2 output from the Digi
wavedrivers. Now the interface I do like, I started out on Session 8
PC so I was use to it and then years later they offered me the PT
upgrade. Yea they got me, I sold it to a guy about 4-6 months a go I
know here in Texas, now he's Bitching because it doesn't work well on
his system. Soooo its not to far from the real thing. Also I don't
know if you have seen this but after you close out a PT session try
to go to any other program on your system, I get an error system
resources are low. I have to reboot. Well at least I got this for free

George Ware

Brian Franz wrote:
>> So has anyone else here ventured over to the
>>Digidesign's sight to try out the highly
>>anticipated "protools free"? I think they must have
>>released it as a free program to get a thousand beta
>>testers at no cost, but what they've got now is a thousand
>>pissed off people. If you think this forum get's nasty on
>>occassion, you should read some of the posts at that
>>forum. Victor would be a welcome sight there. I wanted to
>>take it for a test drive and it did nothing but give me
>>the "blue screen of death" on startup. There also seems to
>>be a lot of people like me too. For those who actually got
>>it to run, it seems that it would crash a lot, have major
>>latency issues or just simply hated the user interface. It
>>looks like those Mac Software/Hardware guys can't write
>>code on Windows to save their lives. Seems to work on
>>maybe 1 out of 100 windows systems, Pentium or Athlon no
>>dif. Well looks like a long hard road out of MAC world for
>>digidesign. I found a work around for them though, I took
>>my "Protools" shortcut that it placed on my desktop and
>>redirected it to start Vegas and damn if Protools didn't
>>work like a charm then :-)