DAW of choice, everyone?

What's your DAW app of choice?

  • Pro Tools HD or LE

    Votes: 22 28.2%
  • Digital Performer

    Votes: 5 6.4%
  • Logic

    Votes: 9 11.5%
  • Cubase

    Votes: 25 32.1%
  • Nuendo

    Votes: 17 21.8%
  • Adobe Audition / Cool Edit

    Votes: 10 12.8%

  • Total voters
    78
James Murphy said:
don't forget Pro Tools Free. you don't need hardware for that and it's free of cost.... but actually the "Free" in the name refers more to "free of functionality" i think... lol

Pro Tools Free doesn't work in Mac OS X or in Windows XP, which pretty much makes it non-existent IMO.

Mendel - for your purposes and your price range I would recommend getting either the MBox (which includes Pro Tools LE) or the FireWire Solo + Pro Tools M-Powered.

You can't get an HD rig for under $10000 USD, so I wouldn't even bother worrying about that for now.
 
Yeah, it's pretty ridiculous. I think one of my lecturers has a quad-HD rig. He wanted to push it to its limits one day, so he he just started laying on tracks and shoving plug-ins on each one. After he got to 86 tracks with 5 plug-ins per track without any slowdown, he got bored and stopped....

So, if you're hardcore, that $10,000USD is definately something you want :lol:
 
Ah I've been meaning to post in here, I did vote, just forgot to post.

When I purchased my initial computer recording system (back when Digi-001 was still hip), my intention was to use Pro Tools, with Logic Platinum 4.8 (at the time) sync'd up to it, so my midi tracks would be recorded as audio into Pro Tools. While I like Pro Tools, and I think that the program's overall sound quality and how well it works with it's own hardware (on all levels of systems) is still unbeatable. But I really got into Logic because on my own, for my stuff, I like programming, a lot. So instead of continuously trying to sync up the two programs, and always having to shuffle between the two, I just started gradually learning Logic. The thing I always loved about there being choices in DAW's is that nothing is necessarily better, different things just work for different people. I love the Logic sequencing, software instruments, score editor, and native plugins, to death. The track count is pretty much unlimited (if need be), and for some reason, I just like the whole thing, a lot. So I figured I'd stick with it until I got a better hang of Pro Tools, but I really just love Logic, so I've been with it since.

But, I still do tracking and mixing in Pro Tools (6.9.2) occasionally depending on the project (Using the 002 now), and of course Logic (7.1) most of the time (running the MOTU896HD). And even with that consumer hardware, they both still rock. My only gripe with Logic, is that it eats ram like it's nothing.

I voted Logic.
 
Kazrog said:
Pro Tools Free doesn't work in Mac OS X or in Windows XP, which pretty much makes it non-existent IMO.

Mendel - for your purposes and your price range I would recommend getting either the MBox (which includes Pro Tools LE) or the FireWire Solo + Pro Tools M-Powered.

You can't get an HD rig for under $10000 USD, so I wouldn't even bother worrying about that for now.

thx dude for the info!!

but what's exactly the difference between pro tools LE ( with that mbox )
and pro tools M-powered ?
 
Mendel said:
thx dude for the info!!

but what's exactly the difference between pro tools LE ( with that mbox )
and pro tools M-powered ?

That is a very good question. My understanding is that they are basically the same. One key difference that I can infer based upon the careful wording of the marketing messages on Digidesign's website is that you can't open Pro Tools LE or HD sessions in Pro Tools M-Powered, even though Pro Tools LE and HD can open up M-Powered sessions.

By contrast, Pro Tools LE and HD can open up sessions created in any version of Pro Tools.
 
I think at the moment you just have LE, HD and M-powered. Then you have versions which aren't 'current' any more such as ProTools 'Free' and ProTools 'TDM' (the predecessor to the HD systems).

I'm by no means an expert on PT, but that's all the versions I've ever heard of.
 
Yea, I mean HD systems are still technically TDM systems (because all of those plugins obviously work on either), and I'm no expert on PT either, but I was pretty sure the largest difference was that HD can operate at much higher resolutions than the previous Mix or Mix Plus systems.
 
Mendel said:
and why is that. why should i use ProTools HD FOR RECORDING WITH PODXT< AND dfh2 drum.
( i do'n't mean this in a negative way ! just curious :) )

thx

HD will present no advantages over LE for you in terms of recording, other than the fact that it lets you have more than 32 tracks. However, for what you want to do, 32 tracks should be more than enough.
 
There is no reason for HD in your circumstance unless you want the TDM-only plugins or DSP power for almost all of your useable plugins. I prefer Pro Tools to everything else out there, and often have to deal with more than 32 tracks, so HD is where it's at for me, but if my circumstances were different, my preferred system would more than likely be different. Hell, I use Cubase and Nuendo at home as a songwriting tool/scratchpad, as well as a system providing compatibility with Cubase/Nuendo files sent to me to work with. The Mbox is cool for me too, so I can work while travelling, and have full compatibility with HD when I get into the studio.
 
Kazrog said:
There are two low-cost versions of Pro Tools, namely Pro Tools LE and Pro Tools M-Powered. Both products require you to own DigiDesign or M-Audio hardware.

  • Pro Tools LE is bundled with the DigiDesign MBox, Digi 002, and Digi 002R.
  • Pro Tools M-Powered is sold as standalone software but requires you to own M-Audio hardware that displays the M-Powered logo, for example the Firewire Solo and FireWire 410 that I have suggested to you before.

This is as cheap as you can go to get into Pro Tools! For a full list of budget Pro Tools hardware, go here:

http://www.digidesign.com/products/le/

so pro tools LE is the most affordable one. so if i would buy po ools LE i would have to buy also DigiDesign MBox or Digi 002 or Digi 002R.

am i right ?

and at the other hand why do you have to use pro tools with hardware ? isnt a mouse and a qwerty - keyboard enough,

thx for the help dude !!
 
Is cubase more popular than logic in the US and europe?


In England Logic is very standard with Cubase lagging behind a little, im just interested to see so few users operating with Logic.

Obviously Pro-tools is massive in the Uk and ahead of logic.

For me personally, logic MIDI is fantastic and better than Pro tools in this department, and the audio in logic is good also, this is why I use logic.
 
Mendel, you cant buy pro tools le seperately, it comes with the hardware. As kazrog has said, its a " bundle " . The hardware and software is paired together to give you the complete package. So you dont have to worry about buying things seperately.
 
Mendel said:
so pro tools LE is the most affordable one. so if i would buy po ools LE i would have to buy also DigiDesign MBox or Digi 002 or Digi 002R.

am i right ?

and at the other hand why do you have to use pro tools with hardware ? isnt a mouse and a qwerty - keyboard enough,

thx for the help dude !!

If you buy an MBox, it comes with Pro Tools LE. In fact, you cannot buy Pro Tools LE seperately, it ONLY comes with DigiDesign hardware.

You need hardware so that you have a way of getting the audio into and out of your computer through professional grade preamps, A/D and D/A converters. At some point you'd need to buy an audio interface, and the MBox is a good value because you get hardware and software.