Interesting timing for me because I am exporting tracks for a mix engineer and I check everything about 5 times, to save money. So the last week, armed with my 30 stems, I tried to test the results in PT, Logic, Reaper and Studio One. Gave up on all of them and tested it in a blank Cubase project. Out of all of them, PT was by far the worst. The 1970’s mix console with the floating main window. The way you need to create all these aux sends for groups and FX. I know why there are so many keystrokes in PT. Because the screen management is so horrible. The MIDI is non existent. This thing hasn’t changed much since the 80’s, because all it emulates is a 2 inch and console. What has Avid actually given the consumer in this time, all this money later? OP is comparing Apples to Oranges. “Audio editing” is such a broad term. Do you mean moving audio around? Cubase has such superior audio editing tools. VariAudio. Spectral Layers. Free warping of audio. Time matching for vocals. Instant loop player. As a creative tool, there’s no competition at all. ProTools has no sounds and above all, zero vibe. I can’t imagine a less inspiring program. As far as teaching kids - your kids must be clever. Because I’ve taught audio programs from kids off the street to university level and I can’t imagine them getting inspired by PT. Garageband or AcidPro would be my choice. I was taught that ‘we don’t teach software’ Software dates and changes. We ‘teach them how to learn’. Cubase is a deep program. It’s like PhotoShop. It handles so many tasks - maybe too many - with not much drama. But I wouldn’t teach PT to students unless it was an academy of audio engineering - then unfortunately you have no choice. I’m in a band that plays Steely Dan. The songs are actually in very high vocal keys. I can download a MIDI file into Cubase, change the key and put live drums on the track to send to the band in less than 30 minutes. That’s what Cubase is good at. It’s actually pretty damn good at everything. ProTools just records and plays back audio. Pick the right tool and teach your students how to evaluate tools for themselves.
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@lutley Hey! How’s that list coming along?
Well said, I couldn’t function without Cubase. Yes, it has bugs and faults, but so do other programs…