Avid's Uncertain Future

alphacat · Post by **alphacat** » Wed Feb 26, 2014 7:34 pm

Will admit to a little schadenfreude, but hopefully the product can be reacquired by someone willing to focus on it as more than just a cash cow.

http://createdigitalmusic.com/2014/02/a ... ed-nasdaq/

I doubt there are more than a few dozen active PT users around here anyway.

The comments are also entertaining/enlightening.

Will say this: that [to me] Logic & PT have the most anti-intuitive, unmusical interfaces imaginable.

bouncingfish · Post by **bouncingfish** » Thu Feb 27, 2014 2:33 am

Tbh logic x looks a bit nicer than ableton, that's subjective.

What is, in your opinion the definition of an 'unmusical' interface? Lol

I see what you mean tho, logic 9 was fuck ugly, but I don't think the actual look of the daw is what's supposed to inspire you, it's supposed to come from inside and the daw is just a tool, looks shouldn't matter (even though they probably do have some kind of effect on the brain haha).

It's 4 am I should go to bed

Samuel_L_Damnson · Post by **Samuel_L_Damnson** » Thu Feb 27, 2014 3:05 am

SRSLY pro-tools is an amazing piece of soft ware for RECORDING and MIXING. swear anything else its shit.
We useit uni to multi track and mix on, and its great, but when i used it to sequence on in college it was a ball ache and a half. Everything seemed to take ages to do. Plus its stock synths and smaplers were shite. Logic X does lok nicer than abelton, (and i would say it is better than ableton) but each to their own.

nowaysj · Post by **nowaysj** » Thu Feb 27, 2014 6:32 am

Burn motherfucker burn. Only because they fostered an elitist attitude, and I'm guessing treated their customers like shit -> dongles and what not.

LilWUB · Post by **LilWUB** » Thu Feb 27, 2014 7:08 am

I used PT for 7 years until they wanted to charge me $400 to be compatible with my Mac's software update. I got Logic and I've never looked back. Logic is total tits.

Burn in hell Pro Tools.

rockonin · Post by **rockonin** » Thu Feb 27, 2014 4:25 pm

Adios Avid! Never liked Pro Tools! Didn't you have to pay to unblock 90% most of the features, the delay compensation feature was horrid lol And you had to have an m-audio interface for it work lololololololol

AxeD · Post by **AxeD** » Thu Feb 27, 2014 10:26 pm

*First thing: that information was hardly accurate, so they updated the article.

99% of people here approach this discussion from a dance music producer's point of view..
Pro Tools and Avid are focused on PRO media development. The software is mostly not built around
producing with vst's and midi in general.

When I record a band, I do it in Pro Tools and the musicians don't care about the interface of
my software. It just needs to be stable, low latency and very flexible.
I paid €250,- for the whole thing and so far it has never failed me once.

The mentality of the company is a problem though and that's why some engineers are moving away from it, even though they made a pretty good step into live sound (definitely with the audio over ethernet craze happening now).

Shum · Post by **Shum** » Fri Feb 28, 2014 2:23 am

God even the thought of losing HDX makes me want to curl up into the foetal position. What a sad life I lead.

Any other recommendations for software that handles audio with the ease, speed, and precision of Bro Tools?

nowaysj · Post by **nowaysj** » Fri Feb 28, 2014 4:12 am

Fl Studio

nowaysj · Post by **nowaysj** » Fri Feb 28, 2014 4:12 am

AxeD · Post by **AxeD** » Fri Feb 28, 2014 10:07 am

Cubase, but PT isn't going anywhere.

kaili · Post by **kaili** » Fri Feb 28, 2014 2:30 pm

cubase is the goat daw

nowaysj · Post by **nowaysj** » Fri Feb 28, 2014 7:15 pm

* In the 90's.

Hex047 · Post by **Hex047** » Fri Feb 28, 2014 7:32 pm

I'm still surprised that actually use Cubase, Cubase 7 is ugly and horrible. IMO.
No software compares to Pro tools for mixing and recording though.

Samuel_L_Damnson · Post by **Samuel_L_Damnson** » Sat Mar 01, 2014 2:04 am

Ben you need to take the leap and move to reason. Every great producer uses reason you can tell by the yoi yois.

kaili · Post by **kaili** » Sat Mar 01, 2014 4:13 pm

Sinestepper wrote:Ben you need to take the leap and move to reason. Every great producer uses reason you can tell by the yoi yois.

i actually dled it lol, will use it for sound design at some point probably
but idk im still on cubase 5

i just dont feel like changing, ableton confused the hell out of me, reason is just reason, fl has shitty audio from what i hear and logic is on macs

nowaysj · Post by **nowaysj** » Sat Mar 01, 2014 7:08 pm

I do almost everything in audio in fl. It is clip based, not track/channel based. I really like clips, keeping audio in discrete lanes is not important to me. There are some things that suck about fl's audio, some things are dope.

kaili · Post by **kaili** » Sat Mar 01, 2014 10:36 pm

nowaysj wrote:. There are some things that suck about fl's audio, some things are dope.

same can be said about every DAW though haha

nowaysj · Post by **nowaysj** » Sat Mar 01, 2014 11:30 pm

No doubt!

Always +&-'s

Find the right +'s for you and you'll be happy!

rockonin · Post by **rockonin** » Sun Mar 02, 2014 11:19 am

Hex047 wrote:I'm still surprised that actually use Cubase, Cubase 7 is ugly and horrible. IMO.
No software compares to Pro tools for mixing and recording though.

Im still using Cubase 5. I tried the Cubase 7 demo but I didnt like it too much. Don't like ableton or fl studio.

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