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My first serious outlay into music production, was also my first Macbook pro, when Logic was also available as a studio and Pro version, studio was £150, pro was £600, the difference was sample libraries and instruments.
After laying out for the MBP, I went with the studio version, which began an upgrade path, where we now have Logic proX for the price of my old studio version--and the equivalent MBP is now twice the price I paid.
I wanted to create a VST istrument, along the lines of Spitfires LABS instrument, which is where I found the Steinberg SDK, which is a platform for creating an instrument, but as it is more or less writing code, I gave up. Logic includes a sampler which allows instruments to be created-ESX24, but is not a cross platform solution--hence locked into Apple, for my purposes.
not nonsense really--just my experience, and opinion, which is all I offered.
I'll stick with trying out 'buggy untested ' VSTs out on my system, rather than trying to keep up with Avids model.
if it breaks, I'll fix it.
Record industry---
Film industry----
TV industry----
sure--they all use PT, they are all based around the fixed studio model, to some extent, and those systems grew alongside the main DAW, at the time--which became PT.
Creatives used the best system at the time as well-MAC systems were long known as the serious tools for video and audio production, times change.
It isn't just the expense, it is just the inevitable upgrade path we get locked into.
Slate is one company that seems to be getting things right at this time.
They use the subscription model, but also seem to be value, for £14 a month, you basically get everything you need, all the comp / eq / mastering/ delay/ reverb/ guitar sim you could ever want, and they just seem to keep adding to it.
I am not anti PT by any means, I love what it allows us to do, but I can see that if I had invested time and money into it, I would be reluctant to admit that there may be smarter solutions for certain users.
I don't consider it the tallest poppy these days, but it is a pretty easy target to hit.
No one criticises RADAR for being too expensive, or Sequoia (which is £2k in itself).
I think there are legitimate criticisms that can be made about Avid, but these aren’t it.
HDX with AAX DSP plug-ins is still the best, most stable way to track bands and live drums.
Latency is under 1ms.
There is no messing with alternate mixers, or hardware monitoring.
Integration with their controllers is excellent.
Audio editing is so much easier because the edit window is the audio editor, rather than, such as with most other daws, a separate window.
Yeah, the scoring is ridiculous, but Sibelius isn’t.
The yearly support payment irritates but you’d probably pay that in yearly updates anyway.
My most persistent issue with Avid is the time it takes for them to make an update to the current OS.
I have a 2018 Mac Mini as my main DAW that shipped with Mojave but no PT version exists that works with that OS.
Also, not being able to change audio interface without quitting the application and holding cmd cntl N on a restart is a PITA for those of us running multiple interfaces.
Oh and I think the solo, solo safe architecture is really dumb.
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i also tried a few....i settled on my choice that works for me, I also collaborate with other people who use other systems, that’s fine.
There is no way any of us can know what DAw is good for another user...just share our working knowledge and let them make a choice.
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Some people have commercial reasons to use other DAW's mentioned but I see absolutely no benefit for the home user.
If there's a $60 option that good enough for David Farmer it sure as hell exceeds anyone on here's requirements.
When I'm doing any sort of collaborative post production, tracking or mixing rock bands then I use PT HDX- I've outlined many of my reasons above.
I do have Reaper and I use it, however.
I even paid for it.
Studio: https://www.voltperoctave.com
Music: https://www.euclideancircuits.com
Me: https://www.jamesrichmond.com
I don't install the full sample libraries- what the hell do I need 400GB of someone else's idea of a good drumbeat for?
Logic doesn't have crazy encryption either- I have it on all my Macs with one license and it is therefore the one I tend to gravitate towards.
One other irritant regarding Pro Tools- the number of authorisations for the application is 1 but the number of authorisations for their plugins is 3.
So you can have 3 iLoks with the Avid plugins authorised on it but you cannot run PT without moving your iLok yet between machines, or using iLok Cloud, which is not brilliantly implemented.
That sucks.
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Studio: https://www.voltperoctave.com
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Me: https://www.jamesrichmond.com
Pro Tools is no longer the king. The professional domain is no longer the barometer. Last bit of industry info I got on this topic was that more people were using Propellerheads Reason than Pro Tools in North America. I don't have a source, but it was going around a few years ago.
Cubase, Logic, Reaper, Studio One, and Cakewalk all do the multi-track group editing thing that Pro Tools does, and they all have similar mixing workflows and features too.
The same thing has happened in video now, where you've got the likes of Adobe Premiere really equalising the playing field when it comes to accessibility - since Final Cut Pro X came out, Adobe saw a MASSIVE jump in people using their software. And now you've also got the likes of Da Vinci Resolve, which is completely free for the average person right now. Nobody needs Media Composer anymore.
So ultimately, buy for your wallet. When it comes to newbies to recording, I always recommend Propellerheads Reason. Because it's one of the easiest to get your head around, as it relates to the physical world. If you can get your head around how a wire works, then you can understand that.
Loop based music creation = Ableton Live or Bitwig Studio; FLStudio if you really must!
Linear recording = Studio One, Reaper, Cubase, Logic, Pro Tools.
Those are basically the main options.