Digidesign Pro Tools 7.4 already available

November 10, 2007 – 4:06 am by Jonathan Grand

Finally! Elastic Audio, new beat detective features, re-written Audio Engine (according to Digidesign engineers at AES), and it runs… apparently… kinda faster in some computers. Well yeah, that part is complicated. Some people say it feels faster, while other users are outraged about how slow 7.4 is. Confused?

Digidesign takes pleasure in removing small features that everyone was happy about, like the possibility to change interface track color saturation. If you want to color tracks in 7.4, you now only have an on/off toggle, and a fixed color shade for each color.

But those are the only negative points, apparently. Overall, Pro Tools 7.4 seems to be a very nice update that will support Windows Vista and OS X Leopard. If only it didn’t cost you from $40 to $79 to get it, and that’s if you already own 7.3!… You can download your copy from the DigiStore.
But that is the price to pay if you want to use Pro Tools. The industry standard that still doesn’t support Automatic Plug-in Delay Compensation in the LE edition :)

Don’t get me wrong. I love Pro Tools. But long time users tend to get bitter.