For me there is nothing in PT that would set it above Cubase or Nuendo. To me it looks like Digi wants you to pay through your nose for anything extra like more simultaneous inputs and the mp3 conversion mentioned above. PT has a few handy things in it, but they're not very generous with plugins. I bought an mBox2 to learn ProTools because it seems like a requirement these days.
Today with dual and even quadcore CPUs this point is passed.Ĭubase started out on an Atari 1040STf with midi only and came to PCs when they were getting better at audio natively. PT had a strong point when PCs were lousy performers and you actually needed the ProTools cards to do anything worthwile on an audio PC/Mac. Lots of studios use ProTools HD these days. If they can't provide me with the Tools, to construct a reasonable sounding compressor/limiter in their software? WTF? I'm not payin' nothin' extra to make a frigin' MP3 or to use a cartoon that resembles an 1176. Some of the most basic things we take for granted now in our "run-of-the-mill all-purpose audio software" is not included in ProTools. What am I not understanding here? Too many ProTools! And so far, I'm not as impressed with the capabilities of ProTools. For that, I need ProTools MPowered? I'm a little confused now because one would think that the Transit, which is ProTools compatible could run the ProTools LE, that was included with my "M-Box 2"? But no.
I figured I could now run ProTools on my laptop with the Transit, so I could learn it in my spare time.
And for the control room I purchased an "M-Box 2" that included ProTools LE. And since Digi design recently purchased M-audio, I purchased an M-audio Transit which was ProTools capable.
Cubase vs nuendo upgrade#
So I recently decided to upgrade the studio to include ProTools. But I figured, all the beginners think you're not a professional until you have/know ProTools. I really never cared for anything that required propriety anything, such as ProTools. I really think it has to do with what kind of work you expect to do?