Pro Tools Or Cubase?, or anyother one?? Options

[slowintrepid]

Hows it goin. I'm required to get a pro tools equipped power book with an M-Box for school. I'm not too familiar with the Pro Tools interface (used for a little kinda confusing) I am a Fan of the Cubase interface however and I am a little more familiar with it.

I will have Pro Tools LE no matter what. but if I go out and buy Cubase would I be throwing my money away. I know that Pro Tools is considered "the industry standard". Does anyone have any opinions about these two programs??

(and what about Logic I've never even touched a systen with logic and I know nothing about it's capabilities)

*edit*

oh yeah I should also tell you that I am goin to school for Music Production and engineering / Music Synthesis. which means that I will be doing alot of Live audio. as well as Midi (I have to have almost every NI suite) so I need good audio and good midi I think

This post has been edited by slowintrepid: Wed 21 Jan 2004, 08:10

[rickenbacker]

If you're going to buy the Mbox and get Pro Tools LE anyway, I wouldn't bother spending more money on another app just yet.

Still, if you actually ARE made of money...

I'd simply say what I said in another post today: in OS X, Cubase looks nicer, but Logic is better.

Plus I think the Logic/Pro Tools combination is a common one in pro studios, so it might help to be familar with both. Engineers use the audio and hardware side of Pro Tools with the Midi and front end of Logic.

If you need good audio and midi, Logic probably has the best of both worlds. Pro Tools Midi has got better in verison 6, though.

[slowintrepid]

yeah I heard that pro tools is slightly lacking when it comes to Midi.

Just how exactly is protools lacking in the midi section??

to me it seems like there isn't much to have or miss.

[rickenbacker]

The difference between a hottie Midi app and a poorly equipped one is generally all the editing/quantising/tweaking features one has that the other doesn't. All sequencers can handle Midi data - some just allow you to do a whole lot more with it afterwards.

I don't know the exact details of Pro Tools' Midi shortfall - it's just something a lot of experienced users report. Those same experienced users seem happier with v6. But if you don't do all that much work with Midi, it'll probably never bother you.

[slowintrepid]

Ok well I'm definitly gonna be using alot of Midi.

So if people are happier with verison 6 of pro tools does that mean it's the current version???

[vape]

dude if u go to their web site they will ship u a DVD with the 002 and pro tools LE, and some stuff on version 6, its a small movie that's very well done. check it out.

This post has been edited by vape: Tue 27 Jan 2004, 04:28

[arvidtp]

I use pro tools alot. doesn't sound like you are a pro tools kinda guy. I'm not really either I have come to realize unfortunately. From what I have read, Logic sounds like my kind of software for composition. I wish there was a demo available. For Live things I forgo a sequencer and use MaxMSP!

[dixiechicken]

For us who used to use Opcode:s sequencers Vision & StudioVision -
Motu:s Digital Performer 4.12 fits the bill nicely.
It's midi implementation is great.

DP4 is a Mac OS-X only application.

Cheers: Dixiechicken

[gdoubleyou]

You didn't say what hardware you have, minimum requirements for SX2 G4/867MHz.
Dual 1.2 recommended. It choked my 1GHz powerbook and was unuseable, moved my license to PC where performance is 200% better.

Also be aware SX is a totally different app from CubaseVST, totally different interface.

I also own DP4 and Logic6, they are much more CPU effecient and will runquite well on an ancient G4/400.

[zelen0]

I have a G4 350 that I'm not using, how well will that run Logic 6 in OS X?

I thought it would be pretty bad, would it? Maybe I should try it out...