I'm sorry and again with respect that's just rubbish. The television and film industry is full of both ginormous budgets and VERY bright people. The cost of replacing a Digi 192 for another converter and software for multiple rooms is equivalent to a morning breakfast tab for many production facilities.
Again IF there was a better choice of hardware/software available to the movers and shakers of this industry NO MATTER THE COST and certainly NO MATTER THE HISTORY OF USING IT I guarantee those folks have the smarts and the budget and the competitive spirit to rush out and buy it. After all their livelihood depends on it.
I don't really disagree with any of this, but PT has become a standard of convenience as much as anything else. It's not that cost is the issue to the big boys, that's true (which is why Digi and Avid can get away with their pricing; they are targeting the deep pockets.)
But PT has by way of history as much as anything else become the DAW standard in much the same way as the NS-10 became the nearfield monitor standard for many years, or that Sony EDLs were a common standard, and Avid became, and still is, a standard for NLVE. The key for each in their respective industries is the idea of a
standard itself. It's not so much that either of those became a standard because of their popularity or superiority, but they became popular or superior because they were "standards".
The common denominator in all four examples was/is the level of importance given to transportability. Big Boy Pros need to be able to know that they can walk into any control room or editing suite anywhere and have formats and reference sounds that they are compatable with. And in the case of PT, it has the added advantage of nepotism; it's being brought to us by the same mother company that makes the Avid systems.
No single one of these examples can be described as the best in their field without at least legitimate debate. Especially in the case of the NS10s or the EDLs, both of which were sorely lacking in many technical areas (and have now been effectively de-throned as the kings of their hils, even if they till are in fairly common use). But they are good enough to allow The Big Boys to get the job done and done well. As long as they can do that as well in Singapore as they can in LA, everyone is happy.
The indie engineer, however, does not put transportability high on his list, and finds the pricing on Digi gear to be a bit on the botique side. It also requres, since this *is* HR, having a home PC that is a Mac. Regardless of relative quality, good or bad, most homes already have Wintel PCs in them that more than capable of acting as a quality DAW platform just as good as a PT system. Pick the siftware with the look and feel
that works for you, add on the interface
of your choice, and away you go.
And just for levity, am I the only one who finds it kind of humerous that those that Bash the whole Widows "my way or the highway" mentality as being so 1984, that to run PT, you HAVE to use a Mac and HAVE to use Digi hardware (with a small licensing exception for MOTU)?
G.
