DigiDesign ProTools M-Powered 7.4cs3 Update for Windows

Pro Tools M-Powered 7.4cs3 Update for Windows




Release Date — February 29, 2008

March 27, 2008 — ProFire 2626 Now Supported

The M-Audio ProFire™ 2626 audio/MIDI interface is now officially qualified with Pro Tools M-Powered 7.4cs3 and higher

for Mac OS X "Tiger", Windows XP, and Windows Vista.

For a list of known issues and workarounds with the ProFire 2626 and Pro Tools M-Powered 7.4cs3.

March 14, 2008 — Fast Track Ultra Now Supported

The M-Audio Fast Track® Ultra 8 x 8 audio/MIDI interface is now officially qualified with Pro Tools M-Powered 7.4cs3

and higher.

For a list of known issues and workarounds with the Fast Track Ultra and Pro Tools M-Powered 7.4cs3.

Pro Tools M-Powered 7.4cs3 or higher is required for M-Powered support of the M-Audio Fast Track Ultra and ProFire

2626.

Please Note: If you have previously installed 7.4cs3, there is no need to download 7.4cs3 again. Software components

required to use the Fast Track Ultra and ProFire 2626 with Pro Tools M-Powered were already included in the Pro Tools

M-Powered 7.4cs3 release posted on February 29, 2008. The original Pro Tools M-Powered 7.4cs3 software installer has not

changed.



For M-Audio Systems with Pro Tools M-Powered 7.4 Only

* Single installer for Windows XP and Vista


* This update requires previous installation of Pro Tools M-Powered 7.4




Pro Tools M-Powered 7.4cs3 for Windows contains fixes in the following areas for all M-Audio devices with Pro Tools

M-Powered 7.4 software:

* Automation


* Plug-ins

Plus previous fixes in the following areas:

* User Interface


* RTAS processing on AMD-based computers


* Dynamics III


* Elastic Time


* Using Soundminer


* MIDI


* Control Surfaces

Pro Tools M-Powered 7.4cs3 is provided as an interim "customer support (CS)" release to address the issues described.

While our testing has not shown these changes to introduce other problems, this version has not been fully qualified by

Digidesign.

What's Fixed in Pro Tools M-Powered 7.4cs3?




Fixed: Pro Tools Automation Thinning Could Sometimes Remove Non-Redundant Breakpoints (Item #100794)

* The thinning algorithm could mistakenly classify a breakpoint as redundant

Fixed: Certain Third Party Products Could Cause Pro Tools to crash (Item #100661)

* Celemony Melodyne and AudioEase Snapper would cause a crash with tick-based regions (introduced in Pro Tools

7.4)




Fixes Included from Pro Tools M-Powered 7.4cs2




Fixed: Track Color Coding Saturation Was Not Adjustable (Item #94474)

* Functionality is now the same as in Pro Tools 7.3.x

Fixed: RTAS Processor Selection in Playback Engine Dialog Was Greyed Out With Multi-Processor AMD-based Computers (Item

#99545)

* Note that this condition should only occur when HyperThreading is enabled on Intel-based computers

Fixed: Opening a Session with an RTAS Version of Dynamics III Could Result in a Burst of Noise (Item #99562)

* This problem was intermittent

Fixed: Quantizing Grouped Elastic Audio Tracks Produces Some Inaccurate Transient Placement (Item #100013)

* Transients could be placed either before or after grid lines

Fixed: User Can Only Promote the Confidence of an Event Marker by Moving it (Item #100378)

* Clicking on any Event marker will now raise its internal confidence rating to 100%, thus preventing the marker

from being removed when the Event Sensitivity setting is lowered within the Elastic Properties window

Fixed: Using Render or Commit With "Rhythmic" Algorithm Can Produce Artifacts at End of Files (Item #100420)

* This would usually occur when using extreme amounts of stretching

Fixed: Elastic Time Warp Markers Could Move After Quantizing (Item #100423)

* Quantizing a selected area could cause markers outside that selection to move

Fixed: Errors Resulting From Importing Certain Files Using Soundminer (Item #100028)

* File names using an ellipsis (...) would cause the error, "Unable to create a new audio file on drive "xxx" for

track "xxx" because I/O error (-36)."

Fixed: Pro Tools May Crash While Setting Up MIDI When Administrator Account Name Contains a Non-English OS and/or a

Non-ASCII Character (Item #100142)

* Known to have occurred with Norwegian, Czech, Japanese and Korean Operating Systems




Fixes Included from Pro Tools M-Powered 7.4cs1




Fixed: Pro Tools quits unexpectedly when moving a plug-in window while closing it from a control surface (Item

#99442)

* If a plug-in window was closed from a control surface while the plug-in window was being dragged across the

screen, Pro Tools would quit unexpectedly.




Installation Instructions




To update to Pro Tools M-Powered 7.4cs3:

1. Verify Pro Tools M-Powered 7.4 is installed on your system.


2. Quit the Pro Tools application if it is open.


3. Locate the Pro Tools M-Powered 7.4cs3 installer and launch it.


4. Follow the onscreen instructions to install Pro Tools M-Powered 7.4cs3.


5. When installation is complete, restart your computer.

If you have installed previous updates, some file versions may not change. This update installs the following files:





* ProTools M-Powered.exe (v7.4cs3)


* DAE.dll (v7.4cs3)


* DHS.dll (v7.4cs3)


* DigiMIDIServices.dll (v7.4cs2)


* Dynamics III.dll (v7.4cs2)


* FFmt.dll (v7.4cs2)