Bullshit, all DAW's sound the same. The plugins are different obviously but as far as adding all the one's and zero's up every DAW will come out with the same result. This has been proved on several occasions using null tests.
Think what you want but I have used Sonar, PT LE, and Cubase and to me they all sound different, especially when mixing down. I've also sat in a studio when someone recorded an acoustic guitar in PT and in Nuendo, and PT sounded dead flat compared. I have also seen 3-d graphical charts of what different DAW's look like recording pink noise and PT was VERY peaky on those graphs!
But in your defense many great and popular albums have been recorded and mixed on PT, so in the end, it's really how the engineer uses it. But on the other hand, 1's and 0's maybe one thing, but the programming architect is COMPLETELY different and how the program is witten determines how the 1's and 0's get manipulated, which CAN affect the sound. Just look at all the different software EQ's out there, technically they are all doing the same thing, which is changing frequencies using 1's and 0's, but yet have you ever sat down and listened to different EQ's using the same exact settings? To my ears they sound different, but to each his own...
Um, only Pro Tools HD uses TDM plugins, Pro Tools LE/MP use RTAS.
Yeah your right, I get my acronyms mixed up sometimes
Trevoire5 said:
As far as the workflow goes, I've not used Sonar but I find PT's workflow very good, I came from using Cubase at college and although the MIDI workflow in Cubase was much better I found Pro Tools much easier and more intuitive to use overall. All a matter of opinion though and depends on what you're used to.
I can agree that everyone prefers their different work flow. Protools does have a nice editing work flow, but what's up with the limitation on the plugins per track, or them dictating how many tracks your allowed to have? Sorry for all the PT hatred, but I just don't understand the logic in being so restricted by a company using such proprietary measures for their end users. I started out with PT and an MBox, then someone convinced me to try Sonar, at first I wasn't used to it, because of the different work flow, but after I learned it better, I realized the options were nearly limitless on Sonar compared to PT. I for one enjoy having as many options out there as possible. However one thing I do miss using is the Smack! Le plugin, that compressor is amazing for adding some distortion to metal vocals. Anyway, whatever floats your boat...