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What DAW's are ye all working with?

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I-Love-Ratm

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#1
I'm running Pro Tools 8 Le on my MacBook Pro at the moment and it's doing me very nicely. I only have experience with Pro Tools but I hear a lot of good things about Logic and it seems more and more people are using it now.

What're you guys running?


Mike
 
#2
Having used both Pro Tools and Logic I would definitely choose Logic. I prefer it in every way.

There was a very good survey done of DAWs. Some magazine ran it and surveyed loads of engineers and musicians and came back with a top 10.

ProTools came 8th. Logic was 2nd. Reaper 1st.

Only problem with reaper is that although it is a good editor etc. it does not offer the full suite of features that you get with programs like Cubase and Logic.

So if you're a one man band when it comes to recording and producing, then crack out the Logic. If alternatively you've already got one hell of a lot of Outboard and other supplementaries, then Reaper will work well!
 
#3
Pro Tools is hands-down the best for audio recording and editing. I couldn't imagine running a large studio session on anything else, especially since stability is a concern in a situation like that. I like Ableton Live for midi sequencing and I often rewire it into Pro Tools, although there are some things I like better about Logic when it comes to working with midi.
 
#9
Logic hands down. When running Logic on the Mac runs faster than trying to run pro tools.

Only problem you need a new mac with a lot of space and ram to get the full effect.

None of their laptops are really good enough to run Logic in all its glory.

I am running it on a new 27" imac with 1TB HD and 16gb ram.
 
#10
I use PT 9. Like many of my mentors say, "DAW is a DAW". Many I'm sure will disagree and for good reason;however, when someone hears your awesome finished product, they mostly just take the ride sans knowledge of the "means to the end".
 
#11
angrypanda said:
None of their laptops are really good enough to run Logic in all its glory.
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This is a suspicious statement. I run Logic Studio 8 on my MacBook Pro every day. I don't use a ton of plug-ins (Native Instruments Guitar Rig 2, Toontrack Superior Drummer 2.0, a Sampletekk Yamaha C7 piano through EXS24, and the built-in EVB3 Tonewheel Organ), but I do tend to keep them running live through MIDI along with tons of audio tracks, most all of them having channel strip settings and automation... This is all done with no problems at all.
 
#13
The only reason to use Pro Tools imo is because it seems that's what the majority of people have, and you need to be able to pass project files etc.

As the survey I mentioned earlier proved, it really is far from the best!
 
#15
bankai said:
The only reason to use Pro Tools imo is because it seems that's what the majority of people have, and you need to be able to pass project files etc.

As the survey I mentioned earlier proved, it really is far from the best!
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This isn't a true statement. Show me this article, please. First of all, how can you call something "proof" when you don't cite the name of the magazine? It's still about 30 stages previous to "this survey existed" much less that it proves anything. If anything it probably asked what their readership was using not "what is the best". Reaper is great, but it appeals to a certain crowd, the "I refuse to use PTools" crowd, which is all well and good, but if that's your readership then your poll is like asking a vegetarian what the best restaurants in town are. Any chance a steakhouse will make the top 20? : )

They're not all the same, and ProTools doesn't have the foothold it does because it's a bad program and its users are fools. I spent years juggling PTools, Logic and Digital Performer, and have used Reaper and every other cheap option, and no other program gives me the workflow I get with PTools when it's time to go bam bam bam bam chopping, moving, throwing files around. Not my first choice for fine midi work, but it's not about pulling down 8 tracks and going dit dit dit with plugins because everything can do that. For me, the layout and interface allow me to work unfettered. I still can't say that about DPerformer, and Logic underwent a MAJOR overhaul when Apple bought it because it had its niche for power but was a crazily unintuitive program and I don't think it would have lasted except in Europe if someone hadn't made it more PTools like, which is what Apple did.
 
#16
Digital Performer 7



You guys using pro-Tools on a laptop , how do you record , say 26 track at once ?

I often have to do "mobile multi-tracking" , I'm using DP but since with PT9 I can use my hardware , I'm starting to look at PT.
In the past , PT le (the edition everybody have) was limited to 8 tracks recording , is it still true ?
 
#18
I've owned/used a bunch of DAW's over the years (Digital Performer, Protools since v5, Ableton Live since v2, Tracktion, Studio One, Reaper, and prob a half dozen others I can't recall at the moment), but have mostly been a ProTools user.

Seems like everyone was jumping ship to Logic on macs a few years ago. I never really liked it. Performance was better than PT, but something about the workflow didn't click for me. I considered moving away from PT in the past year, but ProTools 9 has been excellent.

Avid seems to have drastically changed their thinking as far as listening/responding to their user base lately, and I have a feeling many good things are on tap.
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