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Do you use ProTools is a very very open ended question.
LE & Mpowered are both baby systems (No matter what monster PC / Mac hardware you run it on). I've always hit absolute frustration with those systems very very quickly no matter how high their score on the "Dave C" test (DUCers Know what I'm talking about..)
Pro Tools TDM is an entirely different beast. The screenies may look the same but the way it behaves under load is totally different.
The first thing to get your head around is that Pro Tools comes from an AUDIO PRODUCTION background. It's MIDI facilities are currently lame (Even in PT 7), but further back they were practically non-existant.
Unless you are going to spend a bunch of money on a big (and I mean big, not entry level) TDM system then I would spend the cash elsewhere.
That said, I use it on everything I work on, and for mix automation and shear power of what you can do with it nothing come close. This applies to expanded TDM systems only. By which I mean you're looking at spending over $10k without plugs. Mine was substantially more, and worht every penney even though Digidesign sucks as a company..
No Joke.
My workflow I suppose is one of extreme luxury, but hey if you can do..
So, I write in Cubase with mostly real (as in Physical, not VSTi) sound modules. Once I'm mostly happy with the arrangement I'll move the lot into PT and use that as the heart of building a mix.
That gets me around the left brain / right brain processes you go through when producing a track. That's just me though, i like to work on structure THEN mix, not try and do the whole thing at once..
I can then get results that are incredably hard to do with a regular integrated system (Cubase, Logic, Cakewalk, insert your favorite environment here), and most importantly due to the wonder (also curse!) that is TDM never have a "System too slow" message during playback, or things not behave as they should.
It's rock solid.
Another advantage is I can go back to a project 2 years later open it up and have it just as it was, even though I sold X synth, and Y synth packed up on me. It's a multitrack. very portable, and also very controllable.
So in a nutshell pT is awesome if you are talking about the real deal TDM stuff, and a PITA and disappointing if you are talking about the LE side of things.
For the record I've been using PT since version 2 (Pre TDM, 4 tracks no FX other than basic Hi Lo EQ per track). That's over 10 years now.
Yikes..
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