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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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Studio 232 Sun, 04/18/2010 - 10:03

Samplitude 11 and 64bit OS

Samplitude 11.03 and a custom built PC
Works like a champ!
Cheers

Here are the details
---SOFTWARE---
SAMPLITUDE 11.03 Pro w/ Restoration Suite, Windows 7 Pro 64
BRAINWORX TT Dynamic Range Meter
CHANDLER LIMITED EMI Abbey Road Bundle, RS127 & RS135 Brilliance Pack, TG12412 & TG12414 Mastering EG's, TG12413 1969 & 2005 Compressors
DDMF LP10 Eq, NY compressor
FLUX EPure II, Solera II, Pure Limiter II, Bitter Sweet II, Stereo Tool. Ver. 2.0.40
IZOTOPE Ozone 4, Vinyl
WAVES Dorroughs Meter Collection V7r8
---COMPUTER---
ASUS P6T, Intel i7 920 2.66 G Hz, OC'ed to 3.2 GHz, Zalman CNPS9900A Copper CPU Cooler,
6GB Kingston HyperX DDR3 1600Mhz RAM
PNY 9800GT Video Card, 2-Dell E228WFP Monitors
ASUS 4x Blu-Ray ROM, 2-HP DVD 1270 Burners, 500GB 7200 rpm Seagate Barracuda 7200.12, 1TB 7200 rpm Seagate Barracuda 7200.12, 2 - 1 TB 7200 rpm Maxtor One Touch USB 2.0 Drives
SIIG 3 port Fire-wire Card, CM Silent Pro M 700 PSU
---AUDIO---
LYNX AES16e, LYNX Aurora 16, PreSonus Monitor Station, Adam A-7's, Paradigm Reference Studio 60's, Klipsch Reference Sub

thegrobinson Thu, 02/10/2011 - 22:01

I use Cubase 4 on my Macbook Pro Mainly because I started out on a cubase platform. I'm just learning how to use PT on a mac at school. The program at my school also uses Samplitude for recording recitals and other concerts. After having used all three of these its easy to see that each program is specialized towards a certain task. More or less.

They're all good programs, just preference and application I suppose.

Davedog Tue, 03/08/2011 - 23:10

This is new to me and I am in my training phase. Currently it is PT8.0.1 on a Mac with an 003 surface. I will also have a PC with Sonar 8.5.3 Producer I still use the Alesis HD24 and have an Alesis Firewire Dock on the way. All of this is fronted by a bunch of analog stuff.

An update.

Its now PT9.0.2. A newer Mac Quad-core and lots of ram. The PC is a dual-core w/ Sonar and Cubase. I also added an Eleven Rack processor.

anonymous Tue, 04/26/2011 - 01:30

I use samplitude since samplitude and sequoia are high-definition digital audio workstations (DAWs), specializing in recording, editing, mixing and mastering. Both programs utilize an almost legendary audio engine and are independent of proprietary audio hardware as native software programs.Samplitude sounds better IMHO

hueseph Fri, 01/27/2012 - 19:00

I still have ProTools but I upgraded Sonar to XI Expanded. I have to say that after personalizing the interface, it is a huge improvement. Sonar has some amazing tools. You really can sound good "straight out of the box". No need to buy other plugins(unless you really want them). The plugins with XI are really nice. I'm impressed and mostly converted. Just waiting to get an UA Apollo now and I will be fully satisfied.

hueseph Fri, 01/27/2012 - 22:00

Expanded adds Softube Saturation knob to Pro Channel and the possibility to add additional integrated plugins. The ability to upload directly to Soundcloud from within Sonar, drag and drop signal chain as well as several other improvements.

The cool thing about the ProChannel Modules is that they are integrated so although they still take up cpu power and add some latency, they are already part of the channel. You don't have to load them, they are there on every channel.

The details are here: Cakewalk - X1 Producer - SONAR X1 Producer Expanded

The upgrade was a mere $110 with Expanded. The upgrade to XI on it's own is $100. The sale may have ended though. Expanded is $49 otherwise.

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