Yeah...I've found thats pretty much the way it goes. You will only find Pro Tools in large studios...You can be quite confident that all major facilities across the world are running Avid. Some are running Fairlight/Blackmagic rigs concurrently with ProTools, but they will never hire a non-avid user to work there. But that's only the major ones. I've seen some smaller companies in Europe run Sequoia...I think its a pretty capable platform, but like....Studio One and Logic completely lack basic features needed to handle anything more than a music mix. But that's what Studio One and Logic were built for, and in my opinion they're quite capable of fulfilling that task.
So the basics are going to come down to the application. Right? As far as commercial media facilities are concerned, Apple and Presonus intentionally left out editing and workflow necessities found in Pro Tools HD and Nuendo because its a different market. Apple has no intention of competing in this space because its too small and niche, and it doesn't fit anywhere in the overall direction of that company. Presonus will never develop into this market because their hardware niche is the end-user consumer space, but I feel they do a great job competing in that market. Both have extended their ability to reach the pro user end of the music market, but they both companies seem to have decided to cap their market reach at the professional music user.
What it comes down to is if you are hired to work for one of these companies, you will be working on the gear that is in the facility.
Again, there's a lot of smaller guys using whatever. But in the major audio facilities across the globe, the Avid branding notion is actually the opposite of what you'd assume from the indie market. None of the production companies that sub-contract a post facility give a flying fuck what system they use. None of them care, they simply hire the facility because of what they know the facility of capable of producing. So it really is the facilities choice, but they are all choosing to work in Pro Tools because again, Avid is the only tech company in the world that makes gear capable of accommodating a large studio workflow.
I was citing them as an example of a different category of DAW. Namely two that are outfitted with features for the musician market and not really anyone else.
For clarification I was.
I can certainly understand that. To keep things in perspective, it goes both ways. Its been interesting to see people on my end graduate to the PT HD world and with no previous idea of how important it was to be working from inside an Avid system network. They had no idea what a Logic rig was incapable of doing until they saw what an Avid rig CAN do. Mostly because they've never needed the features until they started doing commercial media work.
