If you are trying to get into the mixing game or if you are even just a creator/arranger, Why the heck should you consider Pro Tools, yet Pro Tools 2018? Well we can go with the saying of, Pro Tools is industry standard! If you are not using it you are not apart of the club. Does it even matter any more? I really don't think so. Let's talk about Pro Tools and other DAWs that we at OutBox Sound are playing around with now a days. You tell us what you think about this matter
We are utilizing three Daws, Pro Tools 12 and higher, Studio One and Reason 9. Let's start with Pro Tools. Being the one who has use this daw for several years, I must say I can't live with out it. Why... I have put a lot of practice in it, I am purely in love with the editing features. Editing on pro tools is like being a dog wagging it's tail. It just comes natural, you get the results you think about and you become happy. Yes strange analogy but just open your mind... Now pro tools did lack on usability when it comes down to mixing. It always took time to set up a session, you always had to either have a template session or build one from scratch, then place plugins on every track. It was kinda annoying. Untill now! Pro Tools 2018 added the capability to recall track plugins and sends. This is great because after editing audio tracks, to get ready for a mix you just recall your plugins on that track. So if You have a list of plugins for lead vocals for example, save it as a preset, then You can recall it on any track. So thank you pro tools for trying to make something else other than editing quick. They added other things for midi capabilities, but I'm not going to talk about that today. However here is a bad thing pro tools need to work on. That is to give us unlimited outputs regardless of interface. Why can’t we have that in 2018 ? Why limit your LE users. I don't need pro tools hd so help a LE person out. Studio one gives you everything with out limit, why can't you.
I will give it to pro tools, they are much more stable than any of the other daws I use, but somewhat less flexible. However it's a good daw, I don't mind sticking with it. If you are interested, pro tools 2018 go for it. The recall feature make your PT experience even better. I don't mean to sound like a fan boy when I say this. You can mix and master in anything now a days. If you noticed I mentioned pro tools as being a tool. I use pro tools for editing and mixing. I use reason 9 to produce music. Then I use Studio one to master. Everything is a tool for something. Don't let anyone tell you just to use pro tools.
Studio One is my mastering platform, they made it so easy to master multiple tracks. S1 makes life easy at the end of project. This, just order your tracks how you need it to be and put your mastering plugins on your main bus. If you need to process individual tracks, go ahead and do it. You can add plugins to individual tracks very easily. Of course at the very end once you are satisfied with you sound just do a digital bounce of whatever format you want. Then send it to your client.
So once again all of these daws are tools. Use them for what they are good for. Pro tools 2018 good for editing and mixing, studio one is good for mastering and reason is very good for producing.
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