Cubase Vs Protools for Upgrading,

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Good Morning Home Recording forum (how are you?),

I've a good question for you to mull over as you wolf down you're cornflakes,

Heres my situation, I've been a cubase user for years now, using 4.5 AI and now its getting to the stage that it needs to be upgraded and as I've gotten a job in a studio I can finally do it without (fiscal) regret. But the very hardest decision is where do I go to.

I've got two things in mind an upgrade to Cubase 6 Artist, or Protools 9.

Already I can hear you screaming go cubase you know it blah blah but I wish it was that simple, you see I've no greater goal than to turn this into my career and would like to broaden my horizons, my friend loaned me his laptop and iLok so I could learn so protools and find it just as (if not more) versatile but the new studio I'm working in is Cubase 5 based. Now do I stick with cubase or go for broke and get PT and learn the "industry standard" the guy who loaned me the laptop is in the opposite boat, the studio he works in is PT based, but run cubase on his home machine so its a hard one to say.

Also as far as my plug ins go most (I actually think all) work as both RTAS and VST.

Anyone got some input?
 
Cubase studio 6 is a budget/limited version of Cubase while Pro Tools 9 is [relatively] full featured. If it's a matter of features, go with PT. However, there will ultimately be a steeper learning curve as you are already familiar with Cubase.

This debate comes up time and time again in these forums and the simple answer is that the only "better" choice is the one that fits your needs and your workflow.

You could also get both of them over time. I have a colleague who runs every major DAW available (Cubase, Logic, PT, Ableton, etc) and he uses all of them and very well, I might add. It's very convenient to your clients to be able to bring sessions/projects etc from any DAW to your studio and be able to work on them. Truth be told if someone works on PT and wants to bring the session over to your place, he's going to be forced to go somewhere else if you can't accomodate him.

I would say get the DAW you're most familiar with and then look at getting the other when you have the money.

Cheers :)
 
From what I have seen the term “Industry Standard” is a very clever and successful marketing term that has had great success by exploiting our basic fears that we will never “make it” in the industry by just playing with toys and will only be taken seriously when we buy a certain product.
Since many top Artists in the Music and Film use more than one DAW product, I can only conclude that the term “Industry Standard” doesn’t really have any practical meaning.
Pick a DAW that fits your budget, and workflow and don’t succumb to marketing hype, as clever as it is.
 
The above is true.
Unless one of them seriously restricts you in one way or another, just pick the one you enjoy using more, or feel you work better in.

The idea of 'industry standard' is a weak one now I think.

I use protools; Most of the people I know don't.
 
Steenamaroo said:
The above is true.
Unless one of them seriously restricts you in one way or another, just pick the one you enjoy using more, or feel you work better in.

The idea of 'industry standard' is a weak one now I think.

I use protools; Most of the people I know don't.
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Yes, I believe that term may have had some real meaning at some point in time. Kodak filed for Chapter 11 today, Something nobody could think of just a few years ago. The Industry changes and if your best argument for using a product is that its "the Industry standard" then you don't really have much of an argument unless someone who is paying you money told you to convert to what they are using.
 
jokerone said:
Kodak filed for Chapter 11 today.
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Lmao, i remember someone mentioned that a while ago.

There was a whole spate of responses saying things like "we need to see the whole picture" and "don't be so negative".

Last thing i recall was waiting to see how it developed.
Glad to get some closure. (That last one isn't a pun btw)
 
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