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Alternatives to the 001...Nuendo?

Greetings DAW heads,

This is my first post here...so I hope I’m in the right place for this!

I’m a 001/Mac user who’s becoming interested in alternative DAW’s, mainly for higher audio track count, and hopefully dual processor support.

Having checked out a few editors this weekend at the NAMM show, I was most blown away by Nuendo.

Drum/Perc Loops and Pro Tools

I am working with a very young singer/songwriter (14 yrs old) and I trying to produce the sounds they are looking for which consist of a lot of percussion loops etc. . . which I need to come up with. I am Finding Pro Tools a tough tool for this. I've got a Mix+4 system with a couple of TDM sample cells but building nice loops is almost a forever endenvour.

Do you really need a distressor?

OK if you get a 1176 (say a Purple Audio) and an LA2a type comp. (say a Manley El Op), and you have the RNC and an Avalon 737, do you really need something that is trying to emulate the things you have? I know it's another part of your pallet yada yada yada. Seems the only thing I'd need it for is the harmonic distortion stuff but is this really better than real tubes and transformers?