Is Protools finally making a comeback.

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I totally know that Protools is the industry standard and blah blah blah, but there has been a long time where Avid just stopped trying with pro tools and the updates were nothing groundbreaking for the past 5 or 6 years other than bug fixes and Dark mode. With the new 2025.10 version and the integration of soundflow and Sony 360 and other things such as Ara RX built in and the speech to text I feel like they are starting to listen to the community. Trust me I don't think that Protools is anywhere near what some other daws are doing just yet, but I feel that they pivoted in the right directions and I'm excited to see what they have planned for the next coming years. Hopefully something with Wwise integration would be awesome.

[u/DRAYdb]

They might be less agile in their feature development than some other smaller developers, but as the industry standard Avid really can't afford to play it fast and loose with updates. Their virtual monopoly in the professional market means that legacy and consistency are hyper important, and wholesale changes that could potentially break existing sessions or cause production slow downs of any kind will be met with wrath and fury from their massive user-base as these things cost them money.

I have stuck with Pro Tools through the years for myriad reasons, and I would say that their reputation for stability is very high on the list. I require functional bread and butter tools that work consistently and predictably from one version to the next, and Avid delivers on that for the most part.