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I don't see many in the pro market using it, although there are some.
The rough split of other markets is thus:
Pro Tools: Pro market- overwhelmingly so, especially Dolby and audio post, tracking bands.
Many pro film scorers sequence in Logic/Cubase etc but mix in Pro Tools.
Ableton Live: Electronic Music
Logic: huge market share because it is locked up with Apple computers. bit of an allrounder.
Cubase/Nuendo: mix of electronic music, film scores and audio post.
Studio One: Singer songwriters, Pro Tools refugees.
FL Studio: Electronic Music
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However, the Windows version is also rock-solid under Linux and WINE. In fact, it runs better under WINE than it does under Windows, no doubt because of the fundamentally better threading model in the Linux kernel.
Reaper has gotten a lot more respected just because of how popular it is. It is missing a couple of key features that I need to switch to other DAWs for, but has become my main DAW over the last couple of years. The customisation is excellent, and it runs super lightweight.
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Thanks for that - I'll give it a go on Linux too.
Reaper is a good, solid DAW which does many things that ProTools doesn't (or didn't....eg recent folder tracks), it is incredibly customisable, and rock solid. I recently did a project using over 1000 tracks of ambisonic recordings and it didn't bat an eyelid.
But PT still is what the industry use and to be honest after that project I couldn't wait to get back to PT. I love the editing work flow, I love the way it handles audio and I love mixing in it over any other DAW.
Having said all that, all DAW's are awesome these days and all of them will produce a finished piece of work. Pick one, learn it inside out and you will be good to go.
(note, I never did work out how to do time select a piece of audio in Reaper, having to do it from the time ruler and select the track, drove me nuts!!)
Reaper could have gained traction quicker I think had it followed the easy aux bus method of PT which people like myself coming from analog desks were used to. They kind of do it their own way which works fine, as does the automation but needs a bit of head scratching to work out how things work simply because the terminology is different.
Pro Tools isn't hitting those numbers at all, and their market share has certainly diminished over the years. Even in my nearly 13 years in the industry, I've noticed fewer people using PT. But that's anecdotal.
You can't really get accurate stats for this, because no-one releases them.
PT will not have many downloads these days as it is al already entrenched in the studio and post production world. Also it's price and learning curve put the kids off. We still teach Pro tools as it is a prerequisite for any one wanting to enter the industry as a technical. An artist can use what the like of course.
Not sticking up for PT as my main personal DAW is logic. But not sure PT v FL is a like comparison at the moment.
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Just because you're paranoid, don't mean they're not after youIt is highly irritating but the only choice is to dump HDX otherwise, which I cannot do.
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Just because you're paranoid, don't mean they're not after youWe still get developer licenses, so I could install it right now if I wanted to, but I've just never jived with PT that much. I think growing up using Reason and Cubase gave me a certain level of expectation and non-experience with the analog console world, that to me PT just seems primitive in so many ways.
Regarding Reaper, I actually only really use it for work stuff at the moment. When we record BFD packs, Reaper's editing tools and ability for us to write our own in-house tools inside it's Lua scripting engine, simply hands down beats ANY other daw for slicing up drum hits.
At the moment my main mixing and composing DAW is Studio One. I'd consider Cubase at some point, because I really like the feature set, and I'd consider moving my "band" stuff over to Ableton Live as well once version 11 introduces take lanes and comping, which I've been asking them for over a decade for!