Reason With Hardware Vs. Pro Tools Le(mbox), help Options

[iceman4]

Hi everyone,

I was wondering if someone here could give some advice as to which descision I should make. My dilema is whether or not to purchase Reason(Educational Version) with Tascam US-122 or save my cash a little more and get Pro Tools LE(MBox). Obviously Pro Tools comes with a limited version of Reason as well as programs but I'm wondering about what is limited in these add-ons, especially Reason. I'm looking to plug my mic, bass, guitar and headphones without alternating cables like with my iMic at the moment . Thats the hardware front, and for the software, obviously sampling, drum machine, and synth, at least. So I figure Reason offers all of this along with the Tascam, but in the long run I was wondering if it was smarter to go with ProTools especially with all its plug-in programs and its professional quality. Also I've heard various problems with drivers with the MBox, also does anyone know if SampleTank 2 will be released with ProTools as a limited version?



Thanks a lot

Kyle

This post has been edited by iceman4: Sun 6 Jun 2004, 18:59

[arvidtp]

Well Logic pro is supposed to come with a boatload of top-drawer instruments that some say are better than those in Reason. I don't think they are as eclectic and/or as funky as those in reason, but they probably could be made to do similar, if not better, things. And their new space designer reverb is supposed to be superb.that seems pretty all-in-one to me.

don't know about drums, but I assume logic's built-in sampler (of which I have heard good things) has lots of drum samples. Express gives you I think 500 MB of samples for it and Pro maybe more? but with the pro version you can make your own too. But as I said I haven't tried it yet. I am just an Mbox guy right now and a bit regretting it due to Digi's artificial limitations and crummy drivers, though admittedly things are a little better since they released a better Coreaudio driver.

If you get Logic, Cubase or I believe now DP the awesome thing is that there are a load of Audiounit and VST plugins available, including many excellent free and inexpensive ones.

Also you might want to check out Ableton Live 4 which just came out with the addition of MIDI track support, though I'm not sure about its audio editing or instrument hosting capabilities. It mainly is an awesome realtime loop composition tool.