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waterstrum wrote:I have yet to find anything that PT does better than DP.
Bragging rights.
I have yet to find anything that a Harley Davidson does better than my Suzuki. Same thing.
It seems there is nothing PT does that DP does not do... But there are a lot of things that PT did first... While there are other things that DP did first... And then they borrowed from each other until they became the same thing...
How about time-stretching multiple tracks at the same time, vital for drum editing.
I have yet to find anything that a Harley Davidson does better than my Suzuki. Same thing.
It seems there is nothing PT does that DP does not do... But there are a lot of things that PT did first... While there are other things that DP did first... And then they borrowed from each other until they became the same thing...
How about time-stretching multiple tracks at the same time, vital for drum editing.
Ok... there IS that. And bragging rights. But anything else...
Shooshie
PS: and let's see PT proportionately stretch a MIDI selection to fit where you drag the endpoint. (nahhh... this is silly stuff. Whoever wants/needs PT should absolutely use it. Everyone else should use DP. )
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I have yet to find anything that a Harley Davidson does better than my Suzuki. Same thing.
It seems there is nothing PT does that DP does not do... But there are a lot of things that PT did first... While there are other things that DP did first... And then they borrowed from each other until they became the same thing...
How about time-stretching multiple tracks at the same time, vital for drum editing.
I don't know about PT, but in DP:
1) Select multiple tracks
2) Choose Region > Scale Time
3) Put in percentage or new end time
4) Hit OK
It would be nice if this was "click-and-draggable", but it does not appear that it is...
When I got my Keyboard mag this month, I noticed in the "contents" that they did a review on Sonar 6. You know what went through my head then before paging to the review? It's probably Mr Anderton (who is quite a knowledgeble fellow, but seems biased towards PCs) who did the review, and he probably gave it a Key Buy award. Sure enough. WHat bugs me is that he actually mentioned some pretty major negatives about Sonar as well, yet gave it a Key Buy award (?), and just recently DP5 was reviewed (of course no Key Buy, apparently that's reserved for Logic on the MAc), and the con mentioned about DP was lack of presets in the included synths (!!). Such a major thing that was oh so fortunately taken care of in 5.11 ':roll:'
Anyway, it's just something that bugs me that I had to mention...
MacBook Pro 2021 (M1 Ultra) with 64 gigs RAM. DP 11.23
aizo wrote:so tonight my friend invited me over for a little jam session and to show him how to use his new daw system he got for christmas. it was a m-audio interface and sonar 6. it has all the bells and whistles all the other programs have. what got me though was it's ridiculously unsmooth set-up. sonar 6 came out what like 2 month or weeks ago and it still looks like a crappy windows program and it's work paths were so un-user friendly. the transport bar had no set place and it constantly got in the way of all the other important monitoring information. so i ran home after i got finished figuring out this insanity program and hugged my 20" apple monitor. and kissed the screen when the dp ever lasting loading logo came on. omg digital performer is so easy to use. i realize this might be biased but come one. why do companies got to make it so difficult just to use the damn program. I LOVE YOU DP!!!! i know there are a lot of my dp sucks or doesn't work right threads. but i will work with any quarks dp has just becuase when it does works it likes hunching butter with a hot knife!!!! share your love! shower dp with your love. becuase you could be stuck with sonar(hahahaha cakewalk!!!!) and a PC!!!
Frankly, I lost most of my hair on a pentium 1/windowz 95/ and cakewalk......com port/irq conflicts/driver issues.....
I almost gave up my dream of making/producing my own music and continued booking studio time at $50.00 an hour with an engineer who has no interest in my music as well as a bad wig.....
Then I rediscovered mac (I used them in college), DP and never looked back.
There was a time when I thought my hair might even grow back, but that never happened. I do have the means of production though.
When I think about how much I love DP, I feel like a 15 year old in love.
I have heard nice things about Nuendo, but I am monogamous with my daw and see no reason to look elsewhere
Nuendo does look pretty damn good. Excellent value for money (not as good as DP though).
Check out Pyramix also (Windows only). A great tracker and editor / mixer. I'm not usre about its MIDI capabilities. I use it often recording foley. It's a fantastic app and is slowly eating up the Pro Tools HD market.
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