Comments on: Logic Pro X vs. Pro Tools 11 vs. Cubase 7 vs. Ableton Live 9

By: Yohan Savitskya

Yohan Savitskya — Tue, 16 May 2017 23:02:21 +0000

Nice article. I’ve tried most DAW’s – started with Logic 8 Express circa 2006 which was a nightmare but it really has changed since then. It had amazing sound quality.

Ableton is a favourite for most DJ Producers. Its so unique and unusual, doesn’t quite match Logic in sound quality but it does the job and has cool arrangement/mixer views and session views – just tab to switch!

Pro Tools, is way to heavy on the CPU and unless you’re recording an orchestra and willing to pay a ton in subscription, I wouldn’t worry about it,

Cubase really is a juicy mix of the 3 – but one dangerously seriously cool DAW is…..

REAPER : I know a lot of Pro Tools Engineers who are switching to Reaper en masse – its being used by Gamer developers in big name studios and its very cheap under $60 – Its very stable too yet immense and a genius design and it loads in just a few seconds unlike Pro Tools which I see often crash half-way through startup after 4 mins!. It also works flawlessly with NI Maschine which can be used as a plugin.

The cheapest DAW out there is Ardour (Its FREE) which runs on Linux and has an identical interface to Cubase, its pretty advanced, it works with Native Instruments Kontakt when in Wine mode and its amazing for classical. Ardour’s abilities are expandable with the help of hundreds of plugins in LV2, native VST and LADSPA

BTW @Abner Chamate – Steinberg Pro 24 came free with Atari STFM back in the day.

By: Abner Chamate

Abner Chamate — Sun, 05 Mar 2017 16:16:46 +0000

My first PC for music making was an Atari ST (TOS no DOS, very icon oriented like a MAC), back in 1987. It has midi ports built in. My composition teacher had an APPLE II or something like that with Finale or Digital Performer that cost like $ 5K, PC cost $ 3K my ST cost me $ 999. Cubase, only midi at that time, I use since then. By 1995 I switch to Win98 PC. A real MAC was out of the question for me in terms of price until now with Hackintoshes. Well, music software is pretty much evolved all those years, so it has my knowledge of Cubase, capabilities and its workflow, wich is the same or better than other music sequencing and scoring programs for MAC. I can say that most profesional software today follows the same rules and capabilities, but Cubase (5 to 9, not the ELEMENTS version) has very good scoring editing besides audio and midi. Cubase last incarnation runs on today PC or MAC. so machine hardware or OS is not an issue anymore. Same thing can apply to other software today for different applications including, video editing, gaming (maybe better on PC) or scientific purposes (maybe Linux too). The debate between music programs is not over, there´s always room for improvement, especially on sound manipulation, effects, soundbanks, but it reached a wall for most musicians needs, specially when you play traditional instruments. classical, rock or jazz. For dance, electronic or experimental music still Cubase is very very capable and used in many pro studios around the world, even more now that Yamaha partners with Steinberg. In any case, everyone can see good videos comparing Cubase vs Logic vs Protools vs etc, but this is my own opinion in this matter. It may take me months to master another music software allthough I tried them once in a while, and read about improvements, not to mention I have lot of files in Atari ST and Windows PC cubase format. Some works are in my youtube channel and soundcloud (free) https://soundcloud.com/abnerchamate . Thank you.

By: Midi Film Scoring

Midi Film Scoring — Mon, 17 Oct 2016 14:22:31 +0000

In reply to John. Agreed. REAPER is a sophisticated DAW at a really affordable price. Helpful community, thorough documentation. Great choice for people getting their feet wet, but seasoned users love it too.

By: John

John — Sun, 16 Oct 2016 11:42:30 +0000

Thanks for the great article. I think one of the best DAW’s out there has to be Reaper. While some DAWs are huge in size and code, their functionality is not that much more able than Reaper.

Reaper takes seconds to load, is designed with maximum functionality with reduced complex coding which in and of itself makes it very powerful. Even if it was the same price as Pro Tools or Digital Performer it would still be my choice of DAW, I’ve used many DAWs since Steinberg Pro 24 on the Atari STFM which was released back in the day and IMHO I’d say Repaer is the most groundbreaking. Logic Pro X and Ableton are also great platforms.