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Avid Release Eucon 3.4 For Pro Tools

As well as updating the Pro Tools Control app Avid have also released a major update to Eucon for Pro Tools users.  Looking at the list of features and fixes, this comes across as a lot more that the point one upgrade would suggest and it would seem that Avid are giving the love to Artist Control users as well with this update.

What's New for Pro Tools Control

  • All Pro Tools meter types are now supported.
  • Enabling a second workstation and general connectivity has been improved. 
  • Updated Appset for Pro Tools | Control app and Artist Control with a more intuitive Soft Key layout
  • Channel View lets you access all track parameters, assign inserts and sends, pan in multichannel for surround, and more.
  • Soft Keys view provides a dedicated, full-screen view of Soft Keys (five rows of six keys each, with support for over a hundred pages of Soft Keys). These are in addition to the primary Soft Keys available in previous versions of the Control app. The new Soft Keys view is identical to that provided on Artist Control.
  • You can now use Pro Tools | Control and Artist Control simultaneously. See the Pro Tools Control guide for important information
  • on using the Control app and Artist Control simultaneously.
  • Group IDs (Group name and number) are displayed in Mixer view.
  • Automation mode is now shown on Track tiles in Tracks view, Channel view, and Soft Keys view.
  • All Pro Tools meter types are now supported.
  • Surround output path is now displayed in Mixer view.
  • Tracks view can be optimized by enabling the Display Breaks on Track Color preference in the Settings > Tracks page. Enabling this setting visually separates Track tiles into rows based on their assigned track color.
  • The floating Fader button now shows the attentioned track name.
  • Updated user interface.

What's Fixed - General

  • Major connectivity improvements for Pro Tools | Control and surfaces when connected directly Mac and Windows workstations
  • EUCON 3.3 would not connect to different subnets
  • Automation data from faders and knobs was erratic at approximately 13ms intervals for all EUCON surfaces
  • Surface Shift + fader cap touch now sets fader value to 0 dB for all surfaces, regardless of whether surface Shift is latched On. Note that this requires that the EuControl Preference Shift + fader sets level to 0dB is enabled
  • Selecting a track in Pro Tools auto-scrolls to top when going past the bank limits of any EUCON console
  • In Pro Tools, enabling EUCON in Setup > Peripherals while there was no surface connected caused Pro Tools to take 10 seconds to quit
  • EuControl 3.3.2 uninstaller did not uninstall EuControl
  • EuControl was crashing silently on Windows when exiting EuControl
  • With Windows 8.1, application focus change occurred when accessing the System Tray notification area
  • On Windows, surfaces did not always Add the first time to move them from All Surfaces list to My Surfaces
  • Meters on some mono audio tracks in Nuendo/Cubase would sometimes not work after banking a surface
  • Mouse response slowed on Windows 10 after EuControl was installed
  • Windows 10: App focus change now occurs when accessing the system tray notification area
  • EuControl on Windows (only) did not auto launch on first try when performing an upgrade from 3.3 to 3.3.1
  • EuControl 3.3.1 uninstaller did not uninstall EuControl
  • EuconWS (Workstation Control) installer was not launching MC Client after install was complete

What's Fixed - Pro Tools Control

  • Using the Soft Key for Do to Selected to change automation modes on multiple channels in Pro Tools | Control now works
  • Selected control in the Track Type/Layouts selector was not always remembered
  • Meters only showed Sample Peak, always (all Pro Tools Meter types are now supported) 
  • When scrolling in Tracks View it was possible for partial rows to be displayed
  • After a sleep, app change, or lock, Pro Tools | Control would sometimes need to be quit and relaunched to reconnect

Eucon 3.4 OS Compatibility

  • Windows 8.x 64-bit
  • Windows 10 
  • Mac OS 10.10.3+
  • Mac OS 10.11.4+

Eucon 3.4 Downloads

Log into your Avid account here to access EuControl software.

Artist Control Panner Now Square

Thanks to community member Michael Greenberg for this one. He is delighted that in the Eucon v3.4 software update that the surround panner page on the Artist Control is now provides a square grid where it used to be round.

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