Pro-Tools, any similarity to Sonar 2.0 XL ?

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Is Pro-Tools similar to Sonar XL in its layout and features?

Would it be hard and time consuming to learn Pro-Tools after being on Sonar and PA9 exclusively?

If so, what are the primary differences?


I have very genuine and sincere reason for asking. I would appreciate any Pro-Tools users comments on this..
Thanks,
Ken
 
cant say i've had any experience with protools, but i have used cubase vst & sx, sound forge, sonar 1 & 2XL, acid pro 3 , cool edit pro and wavelabs...

they are all laid out differently, but one thing i've noticed is the terminology is the same. everything is labelled very closely so it's just a matter of surfing the menu tabs to find what you are after... in my experience that is... i havent used protools but i'd like to get it under my belt too.
 
Why would you need to learn Pro Tools after learning Sonar? :D
 
moskus said:
Why would you need to learn Pro Tools after learning Sonar? :D
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there is a fairly lucrative opportunity in a ProTools based environment down here where I`m at. If the arrangements gel, I would have the latitude to possibly port the environment over to Sonar later, but for now it would be limited to ProTools Professional.
 
I just think that if you have learned one recording program, it should be relatively easy to learn another... :)
 
In my opinion pro tools is very easy to learn. If you wanna see, just get Pro Tools free, and you can get a kind of feel for it..
 
I`ll try the free Pro Tools. I`m not afraid or anything, I was just fishing to see if there were some MAJOR differences that I would encounter. I (hopefully) might be retained to handle the woodshedding and rehearsals for a fairly popular group when they come home to rest in anonominity in this neck of the woods. They just need somebody on call with knowledge of the digital recording software, more importantly than engineering expertise. Any market target recording would be done in the up in the "city".
 
I use Sonar1XL all the time at home for writing songs and putting together MIDI work. Most of my songs start there. ALL of the songs I put in the MP3 clinic are done with it.

But the studios we use to actually do recordings in all use Pro Tools. The interface is much alike. The hardest part for me is jumping from a PC to Mac, just cause they are so different...mostly having the 1 button mouse on a Mac gets me. Sonar and PT have a similar layout and controls to me. I HATE Cubase/Nuendo, it is cartoonish, hard to use, and generally not user friendly. ProTools is much easier to sit down and start using.

It will take you a few hours to get the menus and layout, but it won't be a problem, I think, for you to use ProTools.

H2H
 
thanks for the replies. This aint a really big deal, just somebody to man the mouse and move things around when they woodshed and maybe have an idea.
 
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