Best PT replacement Daw poll

...all of my full-time dedicated professional audio-engineer associates have migrated to Nuendo/Cubase and don't look back...a few still freelance in studios where PT is standard, but in their home-based studios, their preference is Cubase...I too had a three-room PT (OS9) commercial facility, but after shuttering due to economic necessity, Cubase became my DAW of choice...

In their White Paper, you can see how the music industry-and soon the film imo- has been captured and decimated by the IT industry.  But their solution is a doozy.

Like this: "Today’s media professionals and organizations are under tremendous pressure. From the way media is produced and managed to the methods used to protect, optimize, distribute, and analyze content, every part of the value chain is being affected.

The industry needs a leader to step forward and provide direction. Avid Everywhere is our vision for connecting creative professionals and media organizations with their audiences in a more powerful, efficient, collaborative, and profitable way."

So, information technology has driven  "the "value chain"- profits- down and more  IT's the solution?  I don't believe it for one second.

Just as starting in the 80's corporations like Xerox began to have guys with finance backgrounds as their CEO's, today  entertainment corporations have IT guys as their CEO's. You know who it helped in the 80's? Wall Street and the CEO's. Now, in entertainment the CEO and IT are going to benefit. Avid's CEO's-Hernandez- biography says "His focus and passion is to advance technology initiatives that specifically enable the active collaboration and connection between individuals, teams, and businesses." 

Today, Avid would have you believe that your success-and the success of your band/songs/post production- will be based on their IT solutions to connect your band or music to the ITsphere.  I'm not buying it.

PS-I'd love to hear some opposing views from people that believe IT-From Avid or anybody- is going to improve profits in the the music and post production business for creators, and musicians. I may be an old curmudgeon who doesn't see potential profits that are staring me right in the face.

yes, I also own a license, and if I don't pay $199 or $299 annual fee by the deadline, I have to pay $899.00 and start over from the beginning.(but who knows what is? avids lame for not clarifying certainly, and leaving us in the dark, it' funny that i can build all my audio gear from basic scratch, but i can't seem to understand their current business model? I have no problem with waves wup, but $899 to start over? yeah right lol)

6 months down the track, you will be a DAW JEDI no matter which way you go.

Logic is cheap.

I am sure either or any would do the job.

I can help you all you want with Logic, as well as I am sure Randy and Herbie can too with Cubase and someone else with somethinng else.

My suggestion , buy a months subscription to mac pro video, and watch the training videos on cubase and logic...starting with the functions you would use normally... and then see how you feel.

I dont do midi, really. I might play a b3 part or a rhodes part now and then.

I only use midi drums to play my first guide guitar part, and then I just play real drums.

I do use Flex Time (beat detective) a lot.. always in the writing stage..I quantise everything during the writing stage, and then leave it alone during final takes..if I can. If I can't , I use it.

I really use the DAW as a tape machine, with easier structural editing, you know, move a verse around add a chorus.. mainly all this happens at the writing stage.

My point, I could probably use any DAW i wanted, and it wouldn't really change much after initial familirisation.

Maybe try Reaper....

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Wiz

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cheers

Wiz

I agree with this but I would still not want to pay $300 a year. I use Cubase and on Mac it's kind of finicky. All of the slate plugins give me issues and don't close out properly. If I was moving from PT I would probably use Logic.

Many fine DAWs out there nowadays!
I use Sonar X3 especially for content creation, it came with a huge amount of nice softsynths and effect plugins.
For mixing, as long as i don't go OTB again, i will use Mixbus every now and then, it just does the trick, feels like an analog console.
Some guys use Logic and directly connect it's outs to Mixbus, another good solution.
Reaper - i checked it out for a while, it IS a nice option. Insanely small memory fingerprint, professional feel, great feature set.
Cubase, well, i lost contact to Steinberg's DAWs, last one i tried was one of the Nuendo's, but it's looong ago. Didn't feel bad either!
Whatever you choose, it is just a tool. After a while you feel somehow comfortable using it. I am with Sonar for a long while now, but it was really easy for me to jump into Ardour/Mixbus. Really.
Whatever fits your bill, workflow, needs...

The PT situation becomes less heinous with more understanding.

I'll recommend Digital Performer as an alternative. Solid, great sounding, great editing and pitch tools,  
Lots of customization and template options. Flawless latency compensation. Elegant offline bouncing and exporting in all formats. A little weak in built in software instruments, there's good ones, but it's not a song construction kit like Garage Band and Logic. Nifty tool for effortlessly comping multiple takes. iOS remote controls DP from where the mic is, over wifi.  

Lots of features I don't use like notation and sound for video integration.

What might be that solution for lack of mono busses in Studio One? I like Studio One, but lack of mono busses is a bummer.

i started on Cubase VST24 before switching to pro tools, as I had been convinced it was the industry standard. I haven't used Cubase in about 12 years but might consider jumping back if things with Avid don't shape up.
i'd imagine Cubase is an entirely different animal today than it was back then