I'm surprised that SOS has not reviewed Pro Tools 10. There are so many cool and exciting connections now between Pro Tools, Media Composer 6 and the MC Mix, Transport, Colour etc. Really worth highlighting all this.

Hi,

Sorry about the delay with this -- a review is on its way but got held up by various factors outside our control... First part will appear in the March issue.

Sam

After reading the first part of Pro Tools 10 I can say it is overall a good review. However the explanation of the new disc cache feature was somewhat confusing and not entirely correct. I am not 100 percent sure about this, but I have read on the DUC somewhere how it works, can´t find the thread right now. Feel free to correct me if I´m wrong.
However what the disc cache feature does is to create a RAM disc "under the hood" so saying that your disc cache should be "3 Gb" is meaning "create a RAM disc of 3GB size".
The point is...what Mark Wherry is not mention a single word about is that the disc cache feature is even more important when RECORDING. You are, with disc cache enabled, recording directly to your RAM, meaning you can record 256 tracks simultaneously to a crappy USB stick and then the audio files will slowly be copied over to the USB stick in the background when you are already in the mixing phase...
Even without Pro Tools 10 you can simulate the disc cache feature by creating a RAM disc. A 512 MB disc is this line in terminal.
diskutil erasevolume HFS+ "ramdisk" `hdiutil attach -nomount ram://1165430`
Now use the RAM disc as your recording destination. Don´t remember to copy all your files to a real HD before shutting down though , or else your audio files will be lost when restarting