And as much as I think that ProTools is THE industry standard at least in North America I decided it was too expensive and involved for my needs.įor 200 bucks you get a fully functioning tool with Logic. I'm a musician and not a recording engineer. Just went through the same decision process. For sampling, Cubase really has the edge for its ability to manipulate recorded audio. If i had to use one out-of-the-box without using any additional software, I'd probably pick Logic but Cubase is the more powerful of the two and much easier to deal with waveform audio. I think AUs have a slight edge as I rarely have plugins bring down Logic, and the default suite of AUs that Logic ships with are second-to-none. Cubase is more old school, it still has some carry-overs from Cubasis, but you can capture/send Midi commands easier than Digital Performer. Logic for whatever-reason, seems to mix better (I'd guess the limiters and some of the algorithms) are better.įor midi, both apps are mostly the same.
Out-of-the-box, it isn't nearly as loaded at Logic and its always been less stable/more-CPU intensive. There WAS a VST to AAX wrapper at one point but Avid killed it.Ĭubase tends be better at waveform audio than Logic and Ableton, as it has the warping grids of Ableton, built-in melodyne-like pitch correction, plenty of non-destructive editing, etc. I simply don't want to be forced to buy £40 worth of iLok2 because of their forced obsolecence + £310 for the LE to Pro Tools 11 cross-grade just for the pleasure of an intuitive interface and proprietary plug-ins. I'm still on the LE version that came with my Mbox2 because I'm undecided. Also, it still supports using additional systems for extra CPU power unlike Logic X.Īvid have so far decided to make their very expensive Control 24 desks obsolete, use hardware copy protection (and the iLok caused people a TON of headaches last year) and gouge customers for updates prices.
Logic vs pro tools free#
It's kind of a combination of the two, it's significantly cheaper than either and even though the plug-ins it comes with are garbage compared with the standard AAX/RTAS or AU plug-ins Pro Tools and Logic come with, it's free to try out for as a long as you want and there's lots of online resources for learning it's interface. One thing that I think people overlook is Reaper. There's nothing that can touch Pro Tools for editing/mixing but Logic has a vast array of plug-ins, much better dynamic processors in it's standard suite (like multi-band compressors instead of using multiple compressors with different Lo/Hi band EQ settings on the input like you need to do as a work-around in Pro Tools without buying a third party plug-in), it has much better sequencer features, much better CPU utilisation (less so now they've killed Logic node but still offers more CPU-based plug-ins for your system resources than Pro Tools). It still appears far from intuitive even but now with it's lower price of £139, I might concider it. As I tolerated Digidesign, then Avid's forced obscelecence, I started playing around with a "borrowed" version of Logic Pro 8 to see how it faired. I swapped from Logic to Pro Tools years ago when Logic was garbage and barely more than a ported over Atari ST/Falcon sequencer. I have Logic, and I still fire up Garageband on the regular when I just want to sketch out an idea for a song without getting distracted by six dozen options to tweak. It's more DAW than most people will ever need, and under the hood it's using the power of Logic's audio engine and virtual instruments, just in a more accessible way.Īs others have said, start there and stay there until you find a compelling reason to try something else. Renoise is great if you like the vertical-scrolling old-school tracker style of composition.īut if you're on a Mac, it's hard to argue against starting with Garageband.
Logic vs pro tools Patch#
Reason is great if you like fiddling with patch cables in a pretty, pretty interface.
Logic vs pro tools mac#
Live is great if you want to use your DAW to perform, well.Live.Īrdour is great if you want to use the same DAW on Mac and Linux MOTU has continued working hard to compete with Logic in that arena, though, throwing more and more effects&instruments into each release. Meanwhile, Logic has long been a favorite of heavy users of MIDI, because the Environment view is a Swiss Army knife for MIDI, and because the value-for-money of the built-in virtual instruments is awesome. Pro Tools is not " the industry standard", but if you qualify it as "the industry standard for multi-track audio with little or no MIDI involved" you're much closer to right. Every DAW has it's strengths and weaknesses.
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