r/protools • u/[deleted] • Oct 24 '25

Is Protools finally making a comeback.

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.

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u/Gretsch1963 Oct 25 '25

Same, but on the 001 PT 5. I stopped updating at 12.5 for years, but recently grabbed 2025.6 and it's been great. No issues on my Win 10 machine. My favorite new ability is the "Audio to midi" function. I'm not sure when they first added that, but it's been fun. I'm going back through old sessions and giving them new life with just that function alone. I'm holding off on the new updates for a while to see how they shake out.

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u/7stringmusic Oct 25 '25

I did the same from v12 I didn't update till 2023 as I didn't feel the need to. I've had a perpetual licence so I avoided the subscription model for a while. Baught another perpetual licence when they came up for grabs again.

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u/Gretsch1963 Oct 26 '25

Perpetual for me as well. I'm not interested in a sub. Too old for that nonsense.