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I don’t know how Pro Tools can be considered to be a dinosaur, especially HDX, but I agree it isn’t really mass market these days.
It still has the best latency figures of any DAW and it was released in 2011.
Show me another DAW that does ATMOS as well as Pro Tools.
Beat Detective is still amazing.
The S3/4/6 console/controllers have brilliant workflow, especially for post production
HDX is still the best way to track a full band without a console.
There is a lot more, but most people outside of a professional setting just don’t need this stuff.
It would be like buying a tank to drive to the shops.
Sure it might get you there but really a tank does a specific set of things in a specific setting.
But Pro Tools has shortcomings, Avid’s charging model is ridiculous, midi is a complete pain in the ass a- anyone writing EDM in PT is a masochist but it still does things that other DAW’s either don’t do as well or do not do at all.
It just probably isn’t the best DAW for folks who are mostly recording themselves with VSTi instruments at home.
Reaper, Studio One, Logic and Ableton Live all excel n those situations.
Even the regular version is £100 or so, more than an entire Reaper license.
And they are pushing people to swap their permanent licenses for subscriptions.
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Avid seem to be a company that knows it has an enormous base of users who have invested heavily, but seem to struggle to keep up with developments, (very recent addition of 'folders' ) maybe it can work well with specific components, but they seem to cling to the old way of using hardware to lock down the platform.
I bought a second hand MBox 2, on the advice of a PT obsessed tutor at Uni, it was completely outdated for the current OS, and I never succeeded in getting it to work, more recently had success by trying it with Reaper on a Win10 machine!!
The subscription model has become an accepted norm, and Slate is an example of how it should be done, I was most exposed to PT at Uni, when I took advantage of the student discount, but when that ended there was no way I could justify the £25 a month just for the privilege of having PT as my DAW, I did get a perpetual license for PT12 at a discount though.
I think, in essence, I am saying that it is useful to have a wide experience of various DAWs, so that when you come across a project you want to work on-you will at least be able to translate.
To use the words of someone else- 'I wish that I knew what I know now, when I was younger' and I stand by my 100% recommendations for Reaper.
Simple enough to use, deep enough to learn and expand.
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Although PT has Window config's it annoying tied to having a numeric keyboard if you want to use a keyboard shortcut to recall them, but CMD = getting you between Mix and Edit is mainly all you need.
My main issue with Pro Tools, other than midi and the charging model is how badly it manages resources, especially natively.
I can get a much larger session out of the same machine with Logic than I can Pro Tools.
I've never entirely understood why that is the case.
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For me at the time I didn't like pro-tools midi editing for drums and Cubase SX the mixdown sounded different from playback which was a killer. As far as I can tell there is very little to differentiate most of the DAWs these days though.
For me 2 things that annoy me about reaper that I suspect some of the pricier alternative have got working right is the ARA2 support for the likes of melodyne and the control surface support which is basically volunteer supported and not really up the the quality of the rest of the offering.
Obviously it doesnt come with as big a library of VSTs as other offerings do (although some of the free ones like reaEQ although look ugly are actually pretty decent). I have a fairly decent collection of plugs from over the years though so that doesnt bother me too much.
Why Cakewalk? Cos it's free, fully supported and is more or less the same as Sonar Platinum which was 400 notes untl Bandlab tokk it over and made it free, amazingly. Very much worth a look. Loads of online support and community. Hard to fault for a freebie. Very much studio grade too.
I'm sure there's some tech it can't handle (yet) but I don't use any of it.
The videos at the link below are a good place to start.
https://www.reaper.fm/videos.php
Thanks though
I don't think it's that - I think its still tainted by its previous life. I have no idea what it is like now but before it was taken over it got a reputation for being buggy and glitchy and having poor support. As a result many dropped it and went with something else. Those, like me, who are happy with their chosen alternative are unlikely to change back or to have fond memories of it.
Cakewalk was the first music application I ever used ... back in the very early nineties. PC's never had soundcards by default then ... you had to add one in the ISA slot. I used it to make midi files which were then used to provide backing in a duo I was in
It only did midi back then, you couldn't record audio but still seemed amazing compared to the basic sequencers built into keyboards.
I was 16, my school had an Atari, C-lab and a Roland sample based synth module.
At the time I thought it was the most amazing thing ever.
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quickly went over to logic 8 as it was more capable, then 9 etc... now on the latest version of logic... can’t imagine swapping to anything else tbh!.