How professional is cool edit pro?

[Falopo]

Hey, I have been recording in my bedroom for a while now, jsut a demo kind of stuff. I am moving all my stuff to a warehouse studio space that i bought, and i just bought a bunch of new stuff, like a mixer and computer. I was wondering how cool edit compares to, say, cubase, or nuendo or soething on that level. I really like cool edit because its so easy to use. Are their any pro or upper level studios that use it? One more quesiton that i guess will determine if i use it, i have a yamaha 01v mixer. Can i directly mix with that into cool edit? Will that faders on the mixer control the faders in cool edit. Thanks for any answer

[scottboyher]

Cool Edit is as professional as you want it to be. It more of an operator thing. If you know what you are doing then Cool Edit can do it.

[Chrisjob]

Does your yamaha mixer sliders give midi output? Cool Edit can use midi shortcuts...like for transport controls, at least. I"m not sure if it'll move the faders in to CEP mixer or not.


And, of course it's professional....it's got PRO in its name!!

[dobro]

Falopo - I don't think your mixer faders will affect Cool Edit one bit. Syntrillium will sell you a box that will do that, though.

I agree with what Scott said about Cool Edit being as pro as you want it to be. It's really good software and will do pretty much anything any other software of its kind will do.

[Meshuggah]

I get paid
I use Cool Edit Pro

Hence, CEP is professional..

[Falopo]

well can if im using my mixer to record 8 tracks at a time, can i assign the channels on my mixer to record tracks on cool edit?

[Meshuggah]

Yes, if you have a soundcard with 8 inputs.

[Falopo]

yeah i was planning on getting the terratec ews88d and getting the adat card for my 01V

[dobro]

Falopo - Meshuggah's right, but you can't control Cool Edit with the mixer. It's the other way around. You have to use Cool Edit to control Cool Edit. If you move a fader on your mixer, it won't change anything in Cool Edit, it'll just change the level of the track you're sending to your computer.

[Chrisjob]

I think the O1v is a digital mixer, right?

If you used it with Cubase or Digital Performer, you'd would be able to assign the outboard faders to control whatever you want...

But they cost twice as much, and you don't get a great sample editor (Plus you only can use DP on a Mac, buts its boss!)

[Audio_Drivel]

I sometimes wonder why audio programs have to have annoyingly cluttered interfaces (see: Cubase, ProTools (which looks like cheesy shareware) etc.) to be considered "Pro". .

CEP will work for me!

[Chrisjob]

I'll agree....

I realize that software companies are more concerned with sound than visuals, but they need to be aware of the interface as well. I actually bought CEP over Sonar because Sonar is so incredibly ugly ( I later realized how much I needed the sample editor...I guess I just got lucky)

Cubase isn't necessarily cluttered unless you want it to be....most of the promotional screenshots you see look cluttered so they company can show all the features at once

ProTools=Cheesy looks?


Agreed.

[scottboyher]

Cool Edit has the best interface of any software out there IMHO.

[Change of POETS]

I wouldn't say it's the "best" GUI alive but, it's very intuitive for a new user, as well as fully customizable for the professionals.

I think Cool Edit is one of the "best" audio programs available today, especially at it's price point!

[yup im a newb]

can anyone tell me if cool edit pro is compatible with the motu 24 i/o????

[Meshuggah]

Originally posted by yup im a newb
can anyone tell me if cool edit pro is compatible with the motu 24 i/o????

If no one here can answer that, I'm sure you can get an answer here:
http://forums.syntrillium.com/

[yup im a newb]

very true gracias

[Jakearabble]

I am a former Cool Edit Pro 2 user...found its multitracking ability defanitely not up to par with Cubase and Sonar...and not as user friendly...The waveform edit features are awesome...but its not a great sounding program...thats what ithink

[Strryder]

I use CEP2.1 mainly for editing and file conversions, also for home mastering of stereo wave files, as a muti-tracker it just doesn't want to work well on my system, a P-III 600 mhz with 384 ram, I can run tons of tracks in Sonar, with quite a few real-time plugins happening, yet in CEP with only 1 instance of quickverb on bus "A" (all tracks routed), playing back 16 tracks makes my HD run like crazy! CEP can't seem to keep up, I will have to pause the playback every 20 seconds or so, to let CEP catch up, I have tried adjusting the number and size of the buffers a hundred different ways, but nothing yet has helped.