 Re: What Recording Software Do You Use and Why?
Which recording software do you use?
Work - ProTools 6.9 (HD1)
Home -? Cubase SX 3
What sort of work are you doing?? ?Live rock bands?? Video game music?? Samples? Midi? etc
ProTools - mostly recording classical chamber music, some solo work in all kinds of genres, but tends to be on the classical side. Usually capture all instruments simultaneously (live) though occasionally track.? ?
Cubase - anything I can...? this is my composition machine - I write funk, electronic, classical, movie (that doesn't mean I've sold music to a movie company!)
What do you love/hate about the program you currently use?
Cubase - it rocks.? I've been using it for well over ten years (started on Atari ST).? It is stable, has fantastic midi implementation and does everything I ever require in terms of writing, recording and mixing. I've never tried recording live instruments on multiple (as in more than 2) inputs simultaneously, but in terms of what I do with it, it never lets me down, and allows me to get on with being very creative.? It's very intuitive. VSTi implentation is amazing, and the plugins available are just amazing too. I have no negatives about it. I NEVER wish I didn't own and use it.
ProTools - it's very reliable in a multi-track situation. I'm never worried about performance.? Once you get to know it, it's very good. Negatives...? takes a while to get used to it, real time only bounce down is a huge time waster, cost of ownership (upgrades, plugins). Never used MIDI with it... I understand its implementation is better in v7. Curse on it frequently, but it does get the job done, mostly in a good way!
Rich
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