I dislike Protools, for all the reasons Digi protest it's the best thing since sliced bread.. when really their home hardware is quite lame, ther standard plugs and instruments are rather limited, and generally for a Protools system to be usable, you have to spend a small fortune xpanding and upgrading..
Logic8 represented an amazing change to me. It's the best out of the box of any of the daws. Great instruments, usable to great effects, some seriously flexible routing and setup via the environment. I do however ,have some suggestions.
1) The audio engine is almost vintage now. Destructive ediiting, the lack of warp/beat detection functions is a killer bad point for me.
2) The Pow-R dither is ok, but there is better. I end up exporting my tracks to RX Izoptope just to use the dither there, because the dither engine they license is the best out there.
3) The auto-tune could also do with some work. It'd be awesome if you could automate key/program preset changes along the timeline.
4) I'm dubious about the mp3 coder as well. SOme tracks come out sunding great, others sound awful. They update it or hire in a better one.
5) Wish they'd simplify the mutes and solos. Eg sometimes, muting an instrument track doesn't stop sound from coming out of the channel. The only way to make sure of something being muted or solo'd correctly, is to have the mixer open and do it on the strip.. please fix this !
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