Would you go protools if you had the money?

[SuitcaseOfLizards]

I'd spend the money on a top-end standalone recorder. PT would be a total waste of money for me.

If I had to sell studio time to clients, I'd be forced to buy it, but thank God it's just me and my little home studio! I don't even need the freaking computer any more, I can record MIDI + audio on my Fantom X6 and just send stereo tracks to a standalone CD burner!

[Breakpete]

The big drawbacks....

No time stretching..........get live or fl for that stuff. No gain in the TDM version.

Are you 100% sure about this? I'm considering m-powered myself (or the mbox), and after checking out the online DiSK tutorial vids on digidesign.com, I was pretty sure Pro Tools had timestretching. It even looked like a great implementation of the feature.

[TVD]

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?

2 words: Adobe Audition

http://www.adobe.com/products/audition/overview.html

http://www.adobe.com/products/audition/newfeatures.html

http://www.adobe.com/products/audition/systemreqs.html

Now if you're just talking about audio recording & editing, Audition can go "toe-to-toe" with Pro-Tools in many ways. As a loop workstation, Audition can replace Acid Pro to an extent. AND for mastering, it can replace Soundforge as well.

Audition can't do MIDI recording. But that's not a problem. you can get almost ANY affordable soft studio for those duties (FL Studio, Orion, Reason, Project5).

[Polyphonic]

I certainly wouldn't go for PT (I'm trying to get over my gearlust addiction anyway - stop asking questions like this, you're making me relapse!).

I use Live and EnergyXT in combination with a few hardware synths and it's really all I'll ever need. I used Cubase for years but that style of sequencer really doesn't suit my workflow.

If you're recording acoustic material and live bands etc then perhaps PT is the way to go. My work is all electronic though so PT would probably slow me down.

Still, I've never even seen PT in action so what do I know?

[paradiddle]

If I had the money, maybe. Logic 7 with the fastest apple machine would be another choice though.

[james0tucson]

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.

One thing you cannot do, is provide a completed ProTools project to a post-producer who will only accept work in that form.

[james0tucson]

If money is no object, why do you have to choose between alternatives? Have an analog tape room, a room with a PT system, another room for skunkworks stuff. Money's no object, right? Buy out Digi and Steinberg with the spare change that's left over after you've acquired Universal and/or Sony.