Will Avid's new subscription only model mark the end of PT cracks? What does the community think about this? cast your vote and drop a comment....
resellers still have cards and codes for perpetual PT, this "subscription wave" is more of a trigger to boost leftover perpetual sales and support those resellers, I don't know anyone who uses subscription PT Ultimate/Flex in meaningful serious business, and AVID enforcing that will not succeed, they know it, that's why they magically brought back expired perpetual reinstatements nowadays (not publicly talking about them, just showing that option on AVID user accounts all the time)
I don't see how the PT community won't be pissed off trying to get work done under that subscription model.
I had a friend whose DAW of choice used to be a Pro Tools and was a paying customer for at least half a decade (if not much longer) who got sick of having to be perpetually online to use it as well as a litany of other complaints ask me recently if there was someway to access his giant pile of old projects. I'm gonna help him out and see if I can use the more recent R2R release to get him access to his projects and if not I'll just advice him to get a subscription till he can get his stuff out but also it feels like extortion. Anyhow does anyone know if PT supports OMF or if there's someway to convert projects easily to be used in other DAWs?
I think the one DAW whose paid subscription(esque) model I can get behind is Bitwig. Your license lasts for a whole year of updates at which time you can choose to renew it or not. But at the end of it all you're still left with unlimited & unrestricted access to the last version of the software you had access to and at the very least absolutely no problem accessing all your projects.
