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audiokid and I have been having a private discussion in regards to this topic.

We are curious as to which way RO members are leaning. Are you on PT with a Mac? PT with a PC? Nuendo / Cubase, Reason, Cakewalk, Cool Edit, etc or a stand alone system with an analog or digital console? Please share your thoughts with us so we can tailor the forum to be of the most help to all of you.. .

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anonymous Mon, 12/06/2004 - 18:50

Sonar 4

I originally was going to go PT on my PC but:

a) I did not want to disable Hyperthreading on my Intel chip, it's a cool feature and Sonar 4 has a setting to maximize this ability in the software.
b) I hate proprietary anything in computers/recording etc., let me decide what's best for my situation.
c) I want software designed for my OS, not ported from some other platform.
d) I record almost entirely audio tracks mostly with real drums mic'd... hence I need a lot of mic pres.

I'm going with a Firepod and Sonar 4 (Producer) for my PC.

(Given those reasons... I value where you're coming from, does that make sense to you Kurt?)

anonymous Wed, 12/15/2004 - 21:57

Well I am in a pickel as well as many others here.
For reasons of Business practices I CHoose Not To Ever own a Mac product.......( I know and use them and was DAW traineed on a Mac in Recording school) But I would rather use my windows based Laptop.
Its a pentium p4 3.8 8oo meg FSB.2 gig of ram
2 -7200 rpm hard drives
Motu 896 a Mark of the unicorn time price midi interface.
tc electronics effectsLogic controll surfaces and a Mackies analouge mixer .This is how I use the send and returns for the 896......I know it was designed to plug instruments and mics stright into the back.But I think is sound better and warmer to send every thing I/O to the Motu VIA the Mackie mixer.
The soft ware I use is Logic 5.5
Wave lab 4
I have all the native instruments plugins (They have crytal clean sound)
The Pickel is as you know that Logic sold us out to MAC .Cubase SX is nice I just can't get myself to work with it after making my brain be a logic brain now........Go Figuer ,Well I guess I will be a logic user for ever I spend 18 hour s a day there .........Well This is the thing for most of the DJs And producers I know we all like the way Logic sounds ,I persoanly think the sound is clearer full and has more diffinition .....
I belive ................................

anonymous Wed, 01/19/2005 - 13:46

Hi! im brand new user here in recording.org
Im from Mexico, if you travel to mexico my
home is your home anytime (in Puebla, 1 hour from
Mexico City) I own a music studio, i use PT 6.4 in MAC OSX,
(10.3.7) G4 1.25 (Digi002, Octopre) and im thinking
seriously in Digital Performer 4.5, PT could be a pain
in the ass if you dont got all that money to get an HD system.
Some body would gimme an opinion about PT 6.4 vs DP4.5 ??
Thanks, have a nice day and recording, and yeah, you rigth, my english SUCKS!!!! lol

ciao!

anonymous Wed, 01/19/2005 - 14:48

Thanks Xavier!

i send you an email for spanish stuff

12 years!!! damm!! in Mexico there is an strong
bunch of music recorders, engineres, studio owners, etc
that are leaving Protools, turning to Digital Performer,
is too much money for us all that aditional hardwere, hd, etc
Digital Performer are punching down Protools in Mexico.

Logic is an other interesting option, rigth? all that brand new
image with apple issue, and everything... :shock:

anonymous Fri, 01/21/2005 - 13:18

I run an Athlon 2600 with ProTools LE. This machine also runs Wavelab from time to time.
I am purchasing (this week) a new G5 for ProTools LE, and MAY purchase logic as well. I am switching from Windows to the Mac for ProTools. I've commited, I just need to get the Damn G5 to my house.
I'm a big fan of the Mac. Have been since the NED PostPro days. I tech a 20+ Windows box system of audio delivery for a big radio station group here in Seattle. It's nice, but the headaches with drivers, cards, updates, Novell, viri, etc. have driven me to be a Mac user while at home. We also run 5 dual 1gig G4's with ProTools TDM (not HD) here at the radio plant. I spend no time on those machines, and all my time on the windows boxes. We used to run the ProTools TDM on PC's under windows NT (!). It NEVER ever worked correctly. I switched us over to the mac's after 4 years of PACE hell, driver hell, drive formatting hell, and BSOD's every monday morning.
I like my mac's. I use the windows box at home, and it behaves just fine. It will keep running Wavelab, and some ancillary pgms.
Kelly.

anonymous Mon, 01/24/2005 - 20:36

Hi Kelly, Mac rules!!! (rulles?? how do u spell that? lol)
Its classy, its a charming life style, i love macs too.

You should buy a Digi002 for your G5, sounds great!

Affter looking these berklee´s programs about this school
on-line where there is a hole degree to studing protools, i
think there is not debaut, protools rocks!!

c´ya kelly

anonymous Fri, 01/28/2005 - 02:18

tony88 wrote: Hello who uses Acid Pro cause i need that program. I heard you can record usin files from other folders or programs. If anyone could send me that program or any program similar to it I would really appreciate it. So can anybody please send me a link to download it for free please.

Thank You

You can download a DEMO here: http://mediasoftware.sonypictures.com/download/step1.asp?CatID=1

If you like the program you can buy it.

John Stafford Tue, 02/08/2005 - 19:43

I've just moved over from Sonar Producer 3 to Samplitude 7. Well maybe I should say I've added Samplitude to my setup. I'm very pleased with it, and I love the sound quality. The effects are great, and processing seems to be that little bit more transparent. It's a pity these aren't plug-ins as I'd like to use them in Sonar to see how things sound.

I still intend to upgrade from Sonar 3 to the newer version, as the workflow enhancements seem pretty impressive. The Sonar interface, in my opinion, really encourages experimentation, and it's not a program I could completely abandon.

Now all I need is Melodyne and my life will be complete :wink:

John Stafford

anonymous Wed, 02/09/2005 - 09:44

PT LE 002 R with AI-3 on a Mac G5 Dual 1.8. I was considering going to HD 1 but discovered 002R with G5 was much more capable than a basic HD-1 system because the raw processing power in the G5 surpasses the processors in the HD1 card. i.e I can run 5 waves IR 1 reverbs in a 48@24bit session and two in a 96Khz session all at 32 tracks while HD 1 needs an accel card to get to the same performance levels, especially at 96 khz. So instead of spending 16-20K I spent 1400 on a motu 24 I/O for remote recording work and then finish it in Protools.