The iLok alone is enough reason to never use Pro Tools. It is completey dangerous if you are a pofessional user with deadlines to use the iLok for anything at all. If it prevents you from doing anything or completing any project on time or creating even the slightest amount of stress then it should be avoided at all costs.
 
I have been teaching Pro Tools in a lab where the teacher machine and a few student machines went down with their iloks and completely stopped everything. (for days and days)
 
It is also sad that you cannot use most of your plug-ins any more and have to wait for AAX versions. If they come.
 
For every single thing the ilok is involved with there is an alternative which is equal in every respect or superior that does not require it.
 
But apart from all that PT11 is allright. I still think Avid is an expensive option. It does not stop there. In another year you will have to spend another $300 or so just to keep using the program when PT12 comes out.

Middleman
Well, not a week. If you put in a support ticket they are jumping on those first. So save yourself some stress. It took about 4 hours between entering the support ticket and resolution for me. I did lose the authorizations however as you say. They removed the old ones but would not allow entering the new ones. All resolved. But what a hassle which turned a 30 minute install into a day.

Well, I'm glad you got yours resolved quickly. However there's a thread going on GS right now and if you read through it, there are people who were saying that it had been 8 days and they still can't authorize PT or their plugs. Just didn't want anyone here to have to go through all that.

vintagevibe
Why is it that I can get Pro Tools 11 for $699 or Eleven Rack with Pro Tools 11 for $699?
http://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/ElevenRack/
 

I saw that also VV...it's a smokin' deal if you're after PT....you get a FREE Eleven rack...that's a no brainer for sure...the
Eleven Rack it pretty nice...not the best..but it is nice...you get the Eleven Rack Plugin with PT...

Carl, the ad page says "Optimized for Windows 8" so I'm not sure...but here's what happened to me..

Well, I got everything installed on Win 8 and it crashed instantly before it ever opened....
then I realized that I hadn't set it to run as admin....so, after that it ran...and then I loaded
a session...just to look at it....closed the session ...and it crashed...
So I restarted...loaded a session and realized that it was not seeing my Quad Capture or the Asio Driver..
and it crashed...blah blah blah...ad naseum...

Not for me....If they get a patch out before the 30 day trail is up I'll install it and try again...
but, as of right now....it's useless to me...I did all the tweaks and twaks, and blah blah blah...crash and burn...

At least Sonar will work...LOL

Didn't run very well for me either, had a few more crashes & stopped. Like you say maybe a patch needed. I'll just wait & see until the demo is up then restore my last bu.
I looked at the requirements, the link went to PT10 10/18/2012 BTW.

Did an uninstall and re-installed just to see if it fixed anything....NOPE...
 
Unistalled again...done....if a patch comes out...I'll try again...but,
at this point...it's definitely not going to work (for me)

cclarry
Just got the AVID Email...

http://www.avid.com/US/products/Pro-Tools-Software?elq_mid=7895&elq_cid=10923330

Cue X3 !

I had some hiccups with the iLok installer last week, but got them sorted out earlier this week.  Got my PT11 upgrade from Sweetwater yesterday and I'm really loving the new features.  I'm experiencing at least one major bug with it (PT11 crashes whenever I try to assign ins/outs with a capital letter - weird!), but Avid has been all over it and I'm guessing that it will be patched long before all of my third party plugins are 64-bit AAX (i.e., when PT11 is actually usable for me).

Jeff Evans
The iLok alone is enough reason to never use Pro Tools.

I have had those same thoughts and I have sent numerous emails to the guys at Avid begging them to drop ILok. When it goes wrong, you are down for days. No phone number just the ticket system. It's really frustrating.

I know there are a lot of programs that really don't like the Quad-Capture drivers...and PT11 is probably one 
of them....hopefully the patch comes out soon so that I can try it again...interested to see where it's going..

None of my IK Stand Alones will work with the QC Drivers on Win 8...they work fine in X2, and my others, but not outside of a DAW...
And IK could care less....=(

VSL updated VEP5 & that solved my crashing issues.
 
"We have just released a new public beta of VEP5, which fully supports AAX Native 64 in PT11. All other software has also seen 64-bit AAX updates and are currently being uploaded to our servers."