[Charlie_M]

I started on PTLE 7.3 and I've kind of moved away from it. It has only been about a year since I first hit the red button.

It's nice to learn on because lots of people know the PT way of doing stuff. I moved away from it for 2 reasons:

1. with PTLE you're shackled to the hardware. That's a pain for me as a travel a lot and want to be able to call up an entire session on my laptop and (for example) play with the drum track, or effects, other midi programming, etc... Obviously I'm not looking to drag my 002 around with me everywhere I go so that was a pain. I like using laptop+headphones on the road sometimes to work with a rough idea. Couldn't really do that with ptle. The offer a device now that allows you to do that. There was a time when I considered it but to me that whole concept just seems very "last century".

2. I still use my digi hardware and like it but it bugged me that I was locked into that. If I decide I want to use a different box tomorrow I want to be able to do that without having to change horses on the software side and potentially lose a lot of work.

3. It doesn't offer latency compensation. I use a certain amount of outboard stuff and having to manually undo the latency associated with that really got old in a big hurry.

If those things aren't going to bug you it is a nice program. I can see where there would be value to it if your plan is to send your sessions to a PT HD studio to finish up. If you have that kind of arrangement it may be worth dealing with the shortcomings mentioned here - each person kind of has to decide that for themselves.

For me, today I mainly use Reaper. If I got to a point where I wanted to send my output to another studio, it allows me to render to stems very easily (I think it's one button). I would think anyone could pull those in and be on their way to doing whatever magic they're planning to work on those pretty easily.

Charlie