I was impressed by Tracks Live before I even opened the software interface. It’s tough to find a live engineer who doesn’t rely on Waves products to polish up their mixes. Waves has made some serious inroads into the live sound market over the past several years. Waves recently began shipping Tracks Live, a multi-track recording suite targeted directly at live sound capture applications. Because there isn’t a second take in live production, stability is of paramount importance. In most cases, a live engineer wants to get up and running quickly load the software, create and name some tracks and press record.

That means stripping away a lot of the unnecessary editing and automation functionality that often serves to cause confusion and slow a live engineer down. These specialized software products are tailored towards the live sound workflow. During this same time period, a number of companies have introduced recording software aimed directly at sound reinforcement engineers. Re: Apple silicon, great that PT should fly on it (I have am M1 home/test rig), but I have 40 channels of D-Command that Avid have just made redundant, so won't be moving my studio rig to that any time soon, if ever, unless anyone there has a change of heart.In the past ten years, the audio industry has witnessed an explosion of multi-track recording software that has become more affordable and accessible to the average audio practitioner.

Will stick with Catalina for now, but am getting Monterey & Ventura partitions added for when the time comes. I just wanted to see if anyone jumped in & said that a later O.S was made PT any more responsive. Ok thanks all, yeah this was pretty much the conclusion I had come to. But for me, even PT2020 has everything I need. Of course, there might be a PT release in the near or far future that introduces functionality that we would like to have, and won't be qualified to run on Catalina. I'm expecting to stay put until the next generation of Macs come out (M3?) and I'll be forced to make another jump. Only reason I'm not still on Catalina is that my M1 Mini can't run anything earlier than Big Sur.

From what I can see and read about, there is absolutely nothing you and I are missing out on, you on Catalina, and me on Big Sur.

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