Switching from Pro Tools LE to Cubase SE3 questions

[Vocalvoodoo]

Hey all,

I couldn't find much on this, but I just purchased Cubase SE3, which will arrive soon. I've been using Pro Tools LE for a number of years and was wondering how limited SE3 is compared to PT LE. I'm wanting to learn a new program which is partly why I bought it. Plus, it wasn't that much to pay for something different to learn. Will I have a lot less functionality with SE3 compared to PT LE? Or am I better off just upgrading to SL3 or SX3?

I mostly produce commercials for radio, but do sometimes record and produce parody songs using mostly a guitar and Sampletank 2 for all the other instruments. One reason for getting Cubase was the additional MIDI functionality I hear about with Cubase. I figured that may making parody songs a bit easier with it verses Pro Tools.

Thanks for any input.

[Vocalvoodoo]

No one?

[jupiter8]

Looking swiftly at the features of Cubase SE3 i'd say it has less limitations than Protools LE.
There are probably stuff you are going to miss from PT but once you learn Cubase you'll probably notice it is a good deal more powerful.

You can't beat PT when it comes to audio editing though.
IMO.YMMW.

[musiclinks]

Hey all,

I couldn't find much on this, but I just purchased Cubase SE3, which will arrive soon. I've been using Pro Tools LE for a number of years and was wondering how limited SE3 is compared to PT LE. I'm wanting to learn a new program which is partly why I bought it. Plus, it wasn't that much to pay for something different to learn. Will I have a lot less functionality with SE3 compared to PT LE? Or am I better off just upgrading to SL3 or SX3?

I mostly produce commercials for radio, but do sometimes record and produce parody songs using mostly a guitar and Sampletank 2 for all the other instruments. One reason for getting Cubase was the additional MIDI functionality I hear about with Cubase. I figured that may making parody songs a bit easier with it verses Pro Tools.

Thanks for any input.

the one advantage with cubase is that you have more flexiblity with VSTI's and VST's. Also the plugin suite with cubase is probably minimal, but you can find all sorts on KVR etc..., See how you do with SE3 you can always upgrade to SL and SX later. Plus you have the flexiblity of using any soundcard you wish to use, which you don't have with PT LE.
Midi is def. great in Cubase.

[Vocalvoodoo]

Thanks for the responses. Yeah, jupiter8, with other programs I have tried, the editing is what really throws me off. In PT, it's so damn easy. But then again, that's what I've been using for ages. I assume as soon as I get used to Cubase, I'll be flying with it too. I just can't wait till the damn software gets here. LOL

[GreyLion]

There is, of course, nothing even close to resembling Beat Detective in any host I've tried or read about. If you don't use BD, of course, that won't matter.

Take care,

GreyLion

[TeeLangSun]

You can't beat PT when it comes to audio editing though.
IMO.YMMW.

Why do you say that? What does Pro Tools do in terms of editing audio that Cubase doesn't? I'm so impressed with Cubase's handling and editing of audio that I feel like it would be difficult for audio editing to be much better.

[ObsoleteAcc99]

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[GreyLion]

Beat Detective is a bunch of things all wrapped up in one shiny package. The thing I like it for is that it allows you to determine tempos of freely recorded audio, and make a tempo map that will let your MIDI tracks synch. It reverses the usual sequencer paradigm. You can now make your drum and synth tracks play in time with your instrument, guitar in my case, rather than making your instrument have to follow the sequencer's bpm setting.

It does a lot of other stuff, too, that I can't find in any other sequencer. I've only touched the surface of it so far. If you're interested, there's a half-decent video here:

http://www.grooveboxmusic.com/store/home.php?cat=255

Click on the 'Beat Detective - Audio Overview' line to launch a Quicktime movie. They talk about audio only in the movie, but you can do lots of stuff with MIDI, too.

...And, yeah, I don't much like the whole dongle thing, either, for all the reasons discussed in other threads here. But, honestly, it's been completely transparent and trouble-free for me so far.