Pro Tools?

[Michael Zacherl]

On 25.Nov 2014, at 15:14 , Gert van Santen <g.vansanten at upcmail.nl> wrote:

> I used to love Logic. I've ditched it completely for Ableton Live, though, which is not perfect either, but at least it doesn't change around with every update (and please don't tell me that Ableton is working on a new UI for Live, or I'll be going back to playing the recorder ;-)

I just tried to picture you with a Sopranino, Gert! :)))  (didn't dare to think of a Garklein ;)

>> Reaper is definitely something I'm aware of, I miss Logic's sample editor in Reaper, though.
>> 
>> Old-fashioned seems to be something I consider positive in this respect..;)
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> Same here. I just don't have the time to get myself acquainted with new versions of the same thing over and over again.

that's where you see the effects caused by the individual companies' origin:
Avid - pro audio/video, Apple - consumer.
PT is largely used in film production. You just can't effort to waste time on crappy UIs.
When I touched v8 the first time, I thought 'Lego Duplo' (don't know if it's the same product name abroad ;)

>> Tonight I'll get my iLok and install the demo while reading the SOS article..!;-)
> 
> Have fun! And let us know what you think.
> 
> Oh, and on topic: I have played with PT years ago, but wasn't interested because it didn't do anything that Logic didn't already do for me, plus, as MZ mentioned, I didn't like the fact that I needed to change all my plug-ins for a new - and way more expensive - format.
> 
> Perhaps that has changed now... I don't know.

it got a bit messy, yes.  Like the past decade including the aforementioned opening towards the low end.
in the top pro line plugins ran on PT HD and TDM hardware, the computer just acted as the front end, as did the desk(s).
Then there was RTAS, for the lower end, and now AAX.

The ubiquitous wikipedia gives an apparently pretty complete overview: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pro_Tools



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