Best PT replacement Daw poll

Really, I will have to revisit Studio One... User Error! I am learning Logic ATM, its complex and a little complicated(I guess thats what you get for being so flexible). I am staying in the Logic mode so to speak for now until I get a decent grasp of it(for production). I do like Studio One, Im sure V3 will be a beast. I will say Studio One is (for me) the easiest daw to learn, well, except for mono auxes!! Lol

I think that the old chestnut of an argument that you have to use PT because it is supported in every studio worldwide is becoming a bit of a red-herring. The same is going to be just as true for pretty much any of the DAWs listed in the poll. I certainly don't hear that argument much at video post houses anymore about Avid or Media 100 video systems. Anybody doing video post is just as likely to use a Mac with Final Cut Pro or even a PC with Vegas - with no proprietary hardware at all- as they are to use an Avid Media Composer based system.
Personally I'm a bit of a non-conformist; I've never been a huge PT fan. But then again in 1991, when Pro Tools originally came out, I was using an Amiga 3000 computer running Bars and Pipes Pro with a Studio 16 audio interface. Back then Digidesign was kinda the enemy in my world, plus PT didn't support midi and wouldn't for another 10 years.

I can't speak for anybody else, but nowadays I have multiple DAWs installed on my production machines; it's not as if owning the licenses for multiple platforms is that cost prohibitive. I mean what's Logic X, Digital Performer or Cubase cost now - a whopping $200 to $400? Heck, Harrison Mixbus and Reaper are significantly less than that.

These days I think most DAWs have more similarities than differences and, for the most part, the price points are reasonable enough that it isn't an outrageous proposition to have most of the prominent ones represented on any good production machine. From the client's viewpoint I would likely make a point to avoid any facility that didn't.

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Seems it's OTB time for me again around end of this month. 24ch DAC will come for console feed...
DAW will not be of this importance anymore. Start, Stop, Record, Rewind.

+1  Just bought a Radar V ( 24/96 converters ) to hook up to the rebuilt Harrison console with tons of real outboard gear and mics.
Just need to finish the studio rebuild and make music.

To hijack for a moment is There any radar models to stay away from etc features (other than just obselete),mechanical , firmware so on?

How come.no love for sampletuide ? Because it's windows only or flawed? Been around a long time but never see it mentioned

Logic just keeps getting better and better, considering everything that comes with it, I think it's a no brainer.

Their new compressors alone are worth the cost of entry. I have all the Waves compressors, A.O.M,, and Slate's FG-X, and Logic's Focusrite Red tops them all, really, it's just better. Add around 30 viable drum kits that I can switch to the midi pattern I have in Superior Drummer, quick and easy editing, and their guitar amps are as good as any out there, except for one I've heard, ( I forget which one), and it seems to me to be the better toolkit.

Oh, and from what I've gathered, Pro Tools seems to have a way of screwing things up way too often, and charging you for the privilege.

*mrholmes, I had Logic 9, and you couldn't pay me enough to go back, it's like comparing a Ford to a Ferrari to me. Apple is frustrating, believe me, I get it, but for me Logic X was worth every gripe. It just works better, looks better, (easier on the eyes is more important than it sounds), and to me sounds just a little cleaner. Could be plug ins sound better in 64 bits, but I'm not certain. I haven't had a single glitch, really, not one that was Logic's fault in at least a year and a half now, so I think that qualifies as "stable". I used to have issues all the time in Logic 9. I do appreciate the "don't fix what ain't broke" concept, but the move to Logic X was relatively easy, and I felt like I was really getting my money's worth, and more so.

I do understand , my late 2009 iMac is getting long in the tooth now, and UAD just made a huge overhaul of their Apollo system and changed to Thunderbolt 2, so I'm feeling the push to upgrade, yet I'm doing fine right now.

It keeps getting better is why, and a lot of folks are familiar with Garage Band, which helps with Logic X, besides it looks cool ;-)

Eventually, Harrison Mixbus might catch on -- it has an analog sound to it. It has compressor and eq built into each channel.

I own it, but have not switched over to it yet. It is at 2.5 (IIRC), but 3.0 is slated to be quite an upgrade.

It has been on sale for $39 for quite some time. To me, it is a no brainer to buy it just to have another option.

I have also seen a video (and experimented with it myself) on the topic of routing Pro Tool tracks over to Mixbus for mixing.

If I do leave Pro Tools, that is where I am figuring I'll head.

I'm struggling with change too...Did the last two projects in Cubase and while it's really good, I don't have that sense of security that I had from using PT's for the last 10 years - that foundation, you know...I know what "this" sounds like everywhere and I can build off that.