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Post by christopher on Sept 13, 2024 14:48:16 GMT -6
Reaper because I’m just super fast on it.
Reason would be my 2nd fav, also because it’s crazy fast to make songs.
PT is like a work truck, gets the job done, no job too small
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Post by drbill on Sept 13, 2024 15:19:17 GMT -6
- Pro Tools HDX - It lays out and works like a traditional console / tape based system to my brain. Just makes sense.- Nah. Used to. But it was a HUGE groove killer. Moved 100% to PTHDX and never looked back. Still don't.... Even PT native feels like a traditional setup to me. Yes, absolutely. It's the software application, GUI, layout, etc. - not necessarily which hardware you are running. <thumbsup> |
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Post by ab101 on Sept 13, 2024 15:36:16 GMT -6
I started using Twelve Tone Cakewalk in the 90s. (After MasterTracks Pro!) Often hybrid with sympte going to two synced take machines.
I had 4 LynxOne cards in my 4 pci slots!
Anyway, it was great for Midi, and I stuck with it. And I never used apple platforms because I build all my PCs and got use to them.
I am happy with the New Sonar that has come out.
It just fits my workflow and does more than what I really need with a GUI that is fine enough. (Craig Anderton uses it too, so I am not alone!)
Cheers to everyone here.
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Post by parasitk on Sept 13, 2024 15:38:30 GMT -6
Digital Performer, since the late ‘90s.
For me it’s easy to use but still can go very deep. It does everything I want, and it never really gets in my way.
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karlo
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Post by karlo on Sept 13, 2024 18:59:20 GMT -6
Reaper, because the money I save using reaper can be spent on premium plugins.
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Post by Johnkenn on Sept 13, 2024 19:21:58 GMT -6
Ever since Pro Tools Studio’s automatic hardware delay comp started working, I don’t think I’ve opened another daw.
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Post by geoff738 on Sept 13, 2024 22:10:09 GMT -6
Logic. Works for me and frustrates me in about equal measure.
Cheers,
Geoff
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Post by spud on Sept 14, 2024 0:22:45 GMT -6
for me it's Reaper. At first I hated this DAW but when I saw the possibilities of customization in terms of workflow, I looked into it a little more and I think it would be difficult to go back. I have shortcuts that save a lot of time that do not exist on any other DAW. The routing is very powerful and everything is very flexible. On the other hand, two things annoy me: the FX slots are not fixed (so it is impossible to leave an empty slot between two FX for example) and the sends that all have the same color, regardless of whether they are in pre/post fader or in sidechain (well on a channel other than 1/2). It lacks some functions like Cubase's VariAudio for example, it would avoid Melodyne and Vocalign but for everything else it is really at the top. I also know Cubase and Studio One quite well for having worked on it a lot and Ableton Live for using it with a Push2 but being mainly a mixer, it's Reaper that takes over.
Not being really a professional, I always put Pro Tools in the background and I never got hooked, for me it's a giant bug, I always found this DAW unstable, like an unfinished work by the developers. This is probably no longer the case in 2024 but old ideas die hard. I think that if one day I make it my full-time job, I will have to go through Pro Tools since it is considered the industry standard...
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Post by Shadowk on Sept 14, 2024 7:02:03 GMT -6
I’m just making the switch to Cubase after 20 years of Pro Tools. If I remember correctly the old digidesign stuff worked well but outside of HDX I’ve just had too many issues with phase inducing latency and random bugs.
If you work in specific ways then it minimises it, I’d probably avoid parallel busses, external hw with some interfaces etc. and you really need to RTM for instrument channels and so on. Also a lot of daws just come with better stock plugs. Sure I have a plugin alliance sub and TDR / UA / Ozone but in terms of latency and compatibility native DAW plugs are pretty cool on occasion.
In a minimalist track setup it’s not always apparent with Pro Tools native. On larger tracks I ended up dumping it all into samplitude and that program just works effortlessly and you don’t even really need to know how to operate samplitude technically. In terms of PDC, track delay, overdub compensation etc. it just works..
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Post by skav on Sept 14, 2024 8:18:14 GMT -6
I’m just making the switch to Cubase after 20 years of Pro Tools. If I remember correctly the old digidesign stuff worked well but outside of HDX I’ve just had too many issues with phase inducing latency and random bugs. If you work in specific ways then it minimises it, I’d probably avoid parallel busses, external hw with some interfaces etc. and you really need to RTM for instrument channels and so on. Also a lot of daws just come with better stock plugs. Sure I have a plugin alliance sub and TDR / UA / Ozone but in terms of latency and compatibility native DAW plugs are pretty cool on occasion. In a minimalist track setup it’s not always apparent with Pro Tools native. On larger tracks I ended up dumping it all into samplitude and that program just works effortlessly and you don’t even really need to know how to operate samplitude technically. In terms of PDC, track delay, overdub compensation etc. it just works.. How do you find Cubase compared to Pro Tools? |
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Post by nick8801 on Sept 14, 2024 8:41:33 GMT -6
It’s really cool to see reaper second to protools here. I remember when I started on it in like 2007 or something, I would tell people I use reaper and no one took me seriously.
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Post by doubledog on Sept 14, 2024 8:55:43 GMT -6
Even PT native feels like a traditional setup to me. Yes, absolutely. It's the software application, GUI, layout, etc. - not necessarily which hardware you are running. <thumbsup> and PT Native is so much better than it was in PT9 and earlier (including the "LE" versions I used to use with the 002r). PT9 finally added delay compensation, but then it has just gotten better - and really for me at least, more stable too. There's been a few hiccups along the way, but it can do so much more than it could in PT9 and earlier. |
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Post by drumsound on Sept 14, 2024 9:25:41 GMT -6
Yes, absolutely. It's the software application, GUI, layout, etc. - not necessarily which hardware you are running. <thumbsup> and PT Native is so much better than it was in PT9 and earlier (including the "LE" versions I used to use with the 002r). PT9 finally added delay compensation, but then it has just gotten better - and really for me at least, more stable too. There's been a few hiccups along the way, but it can do so much more than it could in PT9 and earlier. I was a late adopter, so I let a slew of other people help digidesign/avid work out the kinks. I started on PT 10, so compensation, clip gain and others things were in place when I showed up to the party. |
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Post by FM77 on Sept 14, 2024 9:56:29 GMT -6
Windows user my entire computer life by happenstance. Started on Nuendo and have been on Cubase for the past 10 years.
Its not a matter of DAW, but 100% a matter of familiarity, muscle memory and workflow.
My process is super stable at this point. That's about the best I can ask for.
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Post by tonycamphd on Sept 14, 2024 12:55:39 GMT -6
I'm just moving over to Logic Pro now after almost 30 years of PT, i'm not sharing projects much at all anymore and i'm sick of giving the stone walling Goliath avid my hard earned for the more and more common periodic frustration they've given me back. I have to say that Logic has been pretty easy so far, it falls in line with the apple operating system normality, i'm not down the road with it far enough to recognize shortcomings compared to PT, i suspect my first frustration will be its lack of simple clip gain in the waveform timeline(unless they added it fairly recently?), the cartoonish track instrument image thing is a little clownish for my old school battleship grey console aesthetic, but the $300 one time fee has killed that clown
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Post by chessparov on Sept 14, 2024 13:13:33 GMT -6
[quote author=" drumsound" [/quote]I was a late adopter, so I let a slew of other people help digidesign/avid work out the kinks. [/quote] I love The Kinks though.  |
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Post by drumsound on Sept 14, 2024 13:25:56 GMT -6
I was a late adopter, so I let a slew of other people help digidesign/avid work out the kinks. [/quote] I love The Kinks though. [/quote]  Me too! |
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Post by nicksteinborn on Sept 14, 2024 14:20:24 GMT -6
Took a music tech class in high school and they had Cubase SX. Quite the upgrade from Cool Edit Pro. Been using it ever since. Had some short stints with Pro Tools when I was working out of a friend's room like 15 years ago, but never owned a copy past LE 7? Sometimes I want to have a copy of Pro Tools around to explore, but it's just not worth the investment at this point. I love Cubase so it would be more of a compatibility thing to have PT. Reaper always sounds interesting, but it's so god damn ugly that I can't convince myself to try it. :x
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Post by ab101 on Sept 14, 2024 14:57:21 GMT -6
I was a late adopter, so I let a slew of other people help digidesign/avid work out the kinks. [/quote] I love The Kinks though. [/quote] Funny! You really got me - on this one! |
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Post by Blackdawg on Sept 14, 2024 16:49:14 GMT -6
It’s really cool to see reaper second to protools here. I remember when I started on it in like 2007 or something, I would tell people I use reaper and no one took me seriously. Being "free" is the main reason. Most people start with it because it's free. That's how Google Docs/sheets got so popular with a few generations of people. |
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Post by nick8801 on Sept 14, 2024 17:10:52 GMT -6
It’s really cool to see reaper second to protools here. I remember when I started on it in like 2007 or something, I would tell people I use reaper and no one took me seriously. Being "free" is the main reason. Most people start with it because it's free. That's how Google Docs/sheets got so popular with a few generations of people. True. I do pay for it now. But I remember when that opening message used to tell me how many hours I’d been using it lol. |
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Post by daddyq on Sept 15, 2024 22:10:41 GMT -6
Took a music tech class in high school and they had Cubase SX. Quite the upgrade from Cool Edit Pro. Been using it ever since. Had some short stints with Pro Tools when I was working out of a friend's room like 15 years ago, but never owned a copy past LE 7? Sometimes I want to have a copy of Pro Tools around to explore, but it's just not worth the investment at this point. I love Cubase so it would be more of a compatibility thing to have PT. Reaper always sounds interesting, but it's so god damn ugly that I can't convince myself to try it. :x To all cubase users here I’m wondering When it comes to mixing, isn’t cubase’s event envelope feel clunky compare to pro tool’s clip gain? It’s only one thing I miss. I do write and arrange in cubase or ableton(studio one was 1st daw for me but it’s unstable on my machine). Trying to mix my own material but leveling vocals precisely needs a lot more work when I use cubase compare to pro tools or s1. Any advices or user experiences? |
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Post by nicksteinborn on Sept 16, 2024 4:11:49 GMT -6
Took a music tech class in high school and they had Cubase SX. Quite the upgrade from Cool Edit Pro. Been using it ever since. Had some short stints with Pro Tools when I was working out of a friend's room like 15 years ago, but never owned a copy past LE 7? Sometimes I want to have a copy of Pro Tools around to explore, but it's just not worth the investment at this point. I love Cubase so it would be more of a compatibility thing to have PT. Reaper always sounds interesting, but it's so god damn ugly that I can't convince myself to try it. :x To all cubase users here I’m wondering When it comes to mixing, isn’t cubase’s event envelope feel clunky compare to pro tool’s clip gain? It’s only one thing I miss. I do write and arrange in cubase or ableton(studio one was 1st daw for me but it’s unstable on my machine). Trying to mix my own material but leveling vocals precisely needs a lot more work when I use cubase compare to pro tools or s1. Any advices or user experiences? Cubase has clip gain. When you have the info bar enabled and click on an event, one of the options is "Volume". Or use the square point in the top middle of the event when selected as kind of a fader. I cut up tracks all the time and use that for basic leveling like missed hits on a drum trigger track or bringing down esses manually or pumping guitars a db in the choruses or whatever. I've never used the event envelope with the pencil tool that I'm seeing in my googles. |
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Post by lowlou on Sept 16, 2024 4:45:27 GMT -6
Reaper all the way...
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Post by svart on Sept 16, 2024 6:25:24 GMT -6
Took a music tech class in high school and they had Cubase SX. Quite the upgrade from Cool Edit Pro. Been using it ever since. Had some short stints with Pro Tools when I was working out of a friend's room like 15 years ago, but never owned a copy past LE 7? Sometimes I want to have a copy of Pro Tools around to explore, but it's just not worth the investment at this point. I love Cubase so it would be more of a compatibility thing to have PT. Reaper always sounds interesting, but it's so god damn ugly that I can't convince myself to try it. :x Reskin Reaper to look like Cubase? |
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