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7. Re: Recording Software Question

Subject: 7. Re: Recording Software Question
From: "Steven Taylor" steev_x
Date: Thu Jan 10, 2008 12:45 pm ((PST))
Features shmeatures!

If I've got to sit and edit audio for 14 hours a day on big jobs,  
which happens often enough, I'd pick Pro Tools over all the other  
options anyday. It's like a finely crafted pair of scissors where  
most apps are those craft knives with the blades that always snap off  
at jagged angles.

To put it into the US election parlance so popular right now:

"It's the interface, stupid!" :)

Steve

On 10 Jan 2008, at 20:38, Aaron Ximm wrote:

> > Anyway, Pro Tools is far and away the most versatile, powerful and
> > intuitive multitrack audio software for Mac or otherwise.
> >
>
> Whaaaaaa!?
>
> I too must challenge this claim. :)
>
> The PC-only multitrack environment I use, Samplitude -- and its  
> professional
> sibling Sequoia -- are much more flexible and have always stayed a
> generation ahead or more of ProTools in terms of feature set and  
> especially,
> in terms of flexibility and the power of most editing features. And  
> it comes
> with a very rich and excellent-sounding set of native tools and  
> plugins.
>
> Every package has faults, of course, but I would take Samplitude over
> ProTools any day! I am sure there are others who feel the same way  
> about
> Samplitude's various host-based competitors like Vegas.
>
> There are a very few very narrow reasons I would ever recommend a  
> newcomer
> pursue ProTools:
> (a) a need to work in professional environments where it is the lingua
> franca,
> (b) a need to work with systems tapping out its proprietary  
> hardware to
> handle enormous numbers of high-resolution tracks,
> (eg 96 tracks of 24/96 or more)
> (c) a need to use one of the very expensive plugins that is  
> inexplicably
> available only for the system, because it is a standard.
>
> Me, I think it's a terrible choice for a home studio unless you  
> need to move
> projects back and forth to pro environments, or are doing client  
> work with
> people who are used to it being the only acceptable flavor.
>
> My highly opinionated $.02, of course... YMMV.
>
> aaron
>
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