Looking at buying myself an Avid Eleven Rack in July this year.

[Clebby]

If you're only getting it for protools, and don't care for the eleven rack, I'd reccomend - if you haven't already - checking out reaper for a DAW. It's very very cheap, and you can even trial it for free indefinitely. I haven't used it yet personally - guitar and gear issues that seem to flow into one another - but a lot of people I've heard talk about it really like it.

[DrNomis_44]

If you're only getting it for protools, and don't care for the eleven rack, I'd reccomend - if you haven't already - checking out reaper for a DAW. It's very very cheap, and you can even trial it for free indefinitely. I haven't used it yet personally - guitar and gear issues that seem to flow into one another - but a lot of people I've heard talk about it really like it.

I've actually got Reaper installed on my PC and have purchased the $60.00 license they offer and Reaper is working well on my system, I've checked out some demo clips on youtube of the Eleven Rack and have been very impressed by the amp models it offers, I practically can't hear the difference in tone when comparing the Eleven Rack's Plexi presets with the real thing, to my ears it's that good, so I definitely want to get myself an Eleven Rack, because it works in standalone mode I realize that I can use it with my Behringer Keyboard/P.A. amp in times when my Marshall MA100C amp goes faulty and needs repairing, so that's a bonus.


I'm currently running an older version of ProTools (LE 6.4) on an old 90's vintage Macintosh G4 Power PC, it has had it's original single 450Mhz CPU module replaced with a dual 500Mhz CPU module and I've maxxed out the ram and upgraded the graphics card, the contemporary music department where I'm doing a Vet course in music is running a fairly recent version of Pro Tools, that has made me feel the need to upgrade to a recent version of ProTools, also, both my two Firewire Audio Interfaces (Avid Digidesign Digi002 and Saffire Pro 40) will work with recent versions of ProTools (from version 9 and up), incidentally I have just gotten both Audio Interfaces working at the same time on my PC, I just had to add an extra PCIe card with Firewire 400 ports on it and buy two new Firewire cables, so far everything seems to be working fine and my PC seems to be pretty happy, I'm pretty stoked cause I have some extra inputs I can use now.


This year I'm also going to look at buying some extra DDR3 Ram sticks for my PC as I have three spare DDR3 Ram slots on my PCs motherboard.