What was true for X function in PTs 8 or 12 or 2020.2 is 99% likely to still apply to the current version. I know of a few around the world that have started teaching on Reaper instead for example.įWIW on tutorials - most info out there, even on older versions, still applies. I think as younger and younger people get jobs we could see that shift universities are broadening which DAW's they teach on, Pro Tools pricing has made it unaffordable for a lot of smaller uni's. It's the DAW they know, it works for them, it's completely entrenched in a lot of the professional music world because of that. A professional being paid doesn't have time to double how long a project will take them so that they can learn a new DAW when they can do everything they want in PT.Ī lot of people who learnt in a university or who are a bit older learnt on Pro Tools, those people got jobs and interns and taught them on Pro Tools. You've kind of proved that to yourself with your experience of Logic making your work quicker there and slower in Pro Tools. You can make great music in any DAW these days and it's just whatever makes the most sense for you. That Hans Zimmer quote: "The best DAW is the one you're used to." is largely true. Proclaiming any DAW as the best ever is quite hyperbolic. By all means use whatever you want, but if you are a professional your going to have to get a pro tools subscription at some point, even if it’s just to export or import things. professionals who use other DAWs use them for specific advantages, mostly involving their own workflows. No one who knows it well, and works with it on a daily basis, thinks it’s an inferior tool. I don’t know if any other software can actually do that except possibly cubase without it being a serious headache. It’s not so great at working with MIDI, but if you are doing really complicated stuff, say 8 passes of a 50 piece orchestra with prerecords, and you are importing templates for specific sections and needing to do complicated routing including stems, and then sync all that to multiple reels of video…. Pro tools is a great deal more complex than most other DAWs, it excels at a lot of varied tasks associated with the audio world that aren’t necessarily music industry related. Sorry to say you’re kind of out of luck if you want to work as an engineer in a studio I was in Logic for around 3 years then came to university and learned PT and I will never go back, I can do 90% of the same things in Logic but PT is so much faster, hence why it’s the “industry standard”, when people are paying you a lot of money you’ve gotta be able to work quickly. I think a lot of the issues experiencing are due to some personal bias if I’m being honest, trimming couldn’t be easier in PT, the trim tool in Logic (and every other daw) is effectively the same at PT (actually FROM PT) and new tracks, looping etc are literally just a few key commands. And the routing in ProTools is way more powerful which often in my opinion makes it simpler when you’re trying to do relatively complex things. I disagree strongly that it’s a “piece of shit” while I understand your point about the UI, I still find it easier to grasp than Ableton by a mile and a half. And lastly, I can jump on any Pro tools rig in the world and work quickly whereas I still can’t search plugins by typing in Logic without a third party app and it takes a lot of keyboard shortcut and preference customization for Logic to be streamlined so if I want to use Logic somewhere else, I will be very slow without bringing my preference files with me but PT doesn’t have that problem.Īnd just so there aren’t any bad feelings, two things I HATE about Pro Tools is how awful the midi editing is, and the fact you can’t easily shuffle insert plugins. This just scratches the surface, but the other important thing to understand is that most of the studio engineers out there have been using pro tools for decades and know it well enough that the problems you had with it don’t ever come up for them. A few things Logic cannot do that Pro Tools can: link plugins across multiple channels so you can change a parameter on one and hear the change across all channels in the group, duplicate a channel and have custom settings for what items get duplicated, utilize multiple master faders to create monitor and sub mixes, and Pro Tools waveform zoom is extremely detailed to the point where you can zoom in and edit the waveform with the pencil tool. I have used both a ton, and Logic is great for a lot of things and some workflow actions are much easier, but try using Logic to record and edit a zillion takes with a anxious vocalist who is paying $100 an hour and you might start to struggle. You’re saying Logic is the best but you barely know how to use Pro Tools.
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