There is no difference. The trick is, maximizing on what you can get. For example, Logic
Pro X. If you have a mac, and it looks like you do. What happens, is it's sort of like pro tools, if you bought pro tools and then bought about 30 grand worth of plug ins, loops, virtual instruments. Now these are not mediocre instruments. They are the real deal. Apple doesn't have a middle man. Pro tools has a middle man. So with pro tools, they can't just hand you all these plug ins, virtual instruments, etc. Because they rely on other companies who sell those and you invest in pro tools and whatever tool you buy from another company that works in pro tools.
With something like
Logic, that still happens. For example
Logic doesn't come with
superior drummer. But that's only like 200 bucks. But you don't have to go out and spend 2 grand to have the same amount of virtual instruments. Don't let the 2 grand fool you. They aren't exactly so much higher quality like you might think. It's just a company making money.
Since apple, is only making money for apple, they'd have no
reason to do that.
As far as it sounding different, technically they are not supposed to sound different that depends on your sound card, your mic, all of that. BUT with that being said, there is an engine that runs the DAW, and if your ears are trained you can tell for example an improvement in sound quality in logic pro x and logic pro 9. Now if you listen to a song in 9 and then listen in x you might not hear it. Because it's subtle.
But there is a sound engine that runs the DAW. Even though I've seen people, even professionals claim that they all have the same sound engine and all these different tools, rather it be logic, pro tools, etc work on this sound engine. But they do improve it as each program goes by.
But it's not noticeable for you to ever know that, nor the listener. And should never be a deciding factor to which one you buy.
You want to buy the one that has the most tools included so you don't got to go spend 20 thousand dollars to get all the tools into the program.That's why Logic is my choice.
Pro tools is the industry
standard but if I ask some guy with pro tools to put together a mix that I put together in Logic, if he hasn't spent the money to buy those VST's he can't do it. It's not that pro tools won't record it, it will. But because they built a name for themselves they feel no need to include anything.
One cool program is reaper. Because reaper might not include all the things Logic includes, but people are giving away the tools you need to go into the program on the reaper forum.
If I didn't have the money for logic, or just didn't like the way it looks or whatever, I'd use reaper before I'd use pro tools. Now I would use pro tools if I had the funds to buy whatever vst I wanted. But since I don't, someone has to hand it to me in
the reaper forum, or I must have most of them already in the program, which is logic pro x. I'm not saying it has everything. But it has more than expected they'd give you. They are very generous.
this is gonna be fun ..