Would you go protools if you had the money?
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alan alda jnr. alan alda jnr. https://www.kvraudio.com/forum/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=58806
- KVRist
- 54 posts since 22 Feb, 2005
If money was no object, would you go out and get PT? I'm really not that impressed by what I've seen so far, but the controller support is way superior to anything else as far as i can tell. So what's so good about PT anyway? Or other hosts for that matter. I'm running SX at the moment, and the only real advantage i can see with digidesign stuff is the integration of hard and software. I think Yamaha is on the case though. I can see that becoming a real 2-way battle for integrated hard and software. What do you guys think?
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- Tunesmith
- 2889 posts since 12 Mar, 2002 from Toronto
this discussion has come up quite a bit here. for sound editing and mixing pro tools is fantastic. it has a great bussing system, nice simple recording and for film editing it does some awesome stuff. beat detective is also really cool.
nowadays it's not even about having the money to use protools. there is the m-audio deal and also mboxes arent that much considering you get an interface and software in one.
nowadays it's not even about having the money to use protools. there is the m-audio deal and also mboxes arent that much considering you get an interface and software in one.
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- Skunk Mod
- 21249 posts since 10 Jun, 2004 from Pony Pasture
From what I can tell, PT's biggest advantage is that it's popular in big professional studios. Not without reason, as it's a good program.
I am not by any stretch a professional musician. PT would be of no use to me, as it would give me little or nothing my current hosts don't have. So I wouldn't buy it, no.
My suspicion is that hardware-software integration involves marketing as much as technical considerations and that it's a temporary phenom, likely to go the way of the pterodactyls before long. But I'm not a pro, so. *shrug*
I am not by any stretch a professional musician. PT would be of no use to me, as it would give me little or nothing my current hosts don't have. So I wouldn't buy it, no.
My suspicion is that hardware-software integration involves marketing as much as technical considerations and that it's a temporary phenom, likely to go the way of the pterodactyls before long. But I'm not a pro, so. *shrug*
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- KVRAF
- 9096 posts since 5 Feb, 2004
Nope, also not a professional and I believe Live is better for me personally. If I had the money, I'd invest in better hardware (computer, drives, audio interfaces, control surface, etc) That would help more than owning ProTools.
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- KVRian
- 1442 posts since 30 May, 2005
No.alan alda jnr. wrote:If money was no object, would you go out and get PT?
I've got way too many really good PC VSTis and VST FX that I don't want to drop. I don't see things in PT that I want that Nuendo can't do for me. The opposite is true. See point one.
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- KVRian
- 665 posts since 29 Nov, 2002 from Bury St. Edmunds, England
Yep, but mainly because I am starting to do a lot of music, FX and dialogue work for film...
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- KVRAF
- 9096 posts since 5 Feb, 2004
Yeah, MASH is one of my favorite showsclueless wrote:no
regards to your dad, btw
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- KVRAF
- 6519 posts since 13 Mar, 2002 from UK
No. It's designed for a different market. What I want to do with music is much more easily accomplished with what I have.
If my job was to record other people, I might reconsider.
If my job was to record other people, I might reconsider.
Now with improved MIDI jitter!
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- KVRAF
- 6519 posts since 13 Mar, 2002 from UK
Good question though.
Now with improved MIDI jitter!
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- KVRist
- 101 posts since 10 Jan, 2005
Anything that can be done in protools can be done in hosts like Nuendo or Logic. I don't want to loose any of my plugins to switch to a closed platform.
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- KVRist
- 331 posts since 24 Mar, 2002 from Denmark
I'm a pro musician, not a pro engineer. So I couldn't really care less. Whenever I do need to bring along something I made at home I just render all the needed tracks to wav or whatever "transportation format" the other host supports and put them on my external HD or burn a DVD.
I've seen some aspiring pros quite at home in Cubase or whatever waste hours of quite expensive studio time on The Proffessional's Choice just to "be Pro about it".
I've seen some aspiring pros quite at home in Cubase or whatever waste hours of quite expensive studio time on The Proffessional's Choice just to "be Pro about it".
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- KVRist
- 157 posts since 15 May, 2005
Tarcking and mixing is great for my way of working in SX.
The tools also make it easy to get ideas down and edited quickly, so I really have no interest in PT. Not that PT is bad, but having to learn new ways to do things that have become natural seems a waste of time.
The tools also make it easy to get ideas down and edited quickly, so I really have no interest in PT. Not that PT is bad, but having to learn new ways to do things that have become natural seems a waste of time.
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- KVRian
- 1118 posts since 31 Aug, 2001 from Los Angeles, CA
ProTools is a very confusing and confused subject.
it is hardware *and* software, if you want 96 channels of I/O or whatnot, like big studios do, ProTools is a very nice solution, and the converters sound wonderful.
next, there is TDM versus Host-Based.
historically, there was only the TDM systems, as host-based computers in the 33 Mhz era were not fast enough to do much of anything native.
Now that processors are 100 times faster (!!) obviously things have changed in that regard.
for strictly making music alone (composing etc), I think there is no need for ProTools. Once you start getting into stuff like heavy editing of multichannel drums, ProTools pays off bigtime. Furthermore there are plugins for ProTools which are wicked and don't exist elsewhere (Eventide, SoundToys, etc).
Best,
Steve
it is hardware *and* software, if you want 96 channels of I/O or whatnot, like big studios do, ProTools is a very nice solution, and the converters sound wonderful.
next, there is TDM versus Host-Based.
historically, there was only the TDM systems, as host-based computers in the 33 Mhz era were not fast enough to do much of anything native.
Now that processors are 100 times faster (!!) obviously things have changed in that regard.
for strictly making music alone (composing etc), I think there is no need for ProTools. Once you start getting into stuff like heavy editing of multichannel drums, ProTools pays off bigtime. Furthermore there are plugins for ProTools which are wicked and don't exist elsewhere (Eventide, SoundToys, etc).
Best,
Steve
