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Performance Testing With Pro Tools

A common question we get is asking; how the performance of “Computer a” is compared to “computer b”. “Is it worth it to upgrade?? These questions are obviously difficult to answer due to a huge number of variables.

Using Quadro iPad App With Pro Tools 12

We reported on the release of Quadro (an ipad app to design your own shortcut macros to control your desktop applications) back in December 2015 (read about it here)
Now Music Producer/Sound Engineer and Quadro user developer Dario Messina has created some Pro Tools 12 specific pallets for use with Quadro and kicked off a blog about them.

Windows 10 telemetry and data collecting

Windows Data Collecting And Phone Home Features Part 2

In a previous post, I went over some of the details of Windows Data Collecting and Phone Home (Telemetry) features. In here I would like to go over some ways to stop or limit the data collecting and telemetry.

Shutting off automatic system updates In Windows 10

Shutting Off Automatic Updates – Windows 10

Windows 10 no longer gives us the ability to turn off system updates. Here I have a way to turn off the automatic download of updates and quickly turn it back on when you are ready.

If You Want To Get A Fee Upgrade to Windows 10 You Better Do It Before July 29th

Are you going to Upgrade to Windows 10 ?
You Really won't need me to remind you of this after all Microsoft have been trying to hammer it home for the last year but it's finally come to crunch time. If you are going to do it, you had better do it now.
I'm not going to try and convince you one way or other it's your choice hence why we have been relatively quiet about the subject but have always been open to offering advice to those of our customers who have asked for it.

Backup Your System Now ! – Yes Right Now

When was the last time you created a backup of your system that would allow you to restore back to its current state in a matter of minutes?
If you are well organised you might have this all under control but I would bet the farm on the majority of people do not have this in hand and only occasionally create backups or even forget until its way too late and the damage is done.

Neil Hester said, "Cool, Well we usually use our tests here as our baseline, if something looks odd or out of whack we can go back and look up things like Geekbench scores but they really don't mean much to us hence..." about https://www.pro-tools-pc.com/performance-testing-pro-tools/
on 3/27/2017

YYR123 - Daniel Christiansen said, "Yes sounds good....my main room is offline so I just downloaded the sessions this morning. I will try them out sometime this week and let you know. It might be cool to get a CPU baseline reading to..." about https://www.pro-tools-pc.com/performance-testing-pro-tools/
on 3/27/2017

Neil Hester said, "We're working on getting some benchmarks up on the website which should help people make decisions on what would be best for them, hang in there :) In the meantime give the tests a try let us know..." about https://www.pro-tools-pc.com/performance-testing-pro-tools/
on 3/27/2017

YYR123 - Daniel Christiansen said, "So.....what's your score?" about https://www.pro-tools-pc.com/performance-testing-pro-tools/
on 3/26/2017

Roy Torrez said, "Awesome Stuff......" about https://www.pro-tools-pc.com/using-quadro-ipad-app-with-pro-tools-12/
on 2/28/2017

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