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Should I get Cubase or Pro Tools?

Saturday, February 4th, 2012

Question by : Should I get Cubase or Pro Tools?
I just bought pro tools but its the most confusing and money sucking program ive ever seen. pro tools just gives me errors and messes my computer up, it wont even let me export mp3 files even after spending 300 dollars for it. so i was wondering if cubase is just as good with quality and if will export mp3. because im really considering cubase instead. someone please help!

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Answer by Steve
Yeah, Cubase will export Mp3s. Pro Tools needs the Mp3 export plug-in to drop Mp3s, but you can convert wav files into Mp3s using itunes and since Wave–>Mp3 is lowering the quality, it really won’t affect the sound as far as most ears are concerned.

I’m not sure about the new features of Cubase 4 because I have been building a Pro Tools rig for awhile now and stopped at Cubase SX 2.0. Pro Tools is very intuitive once you get used to it and with quick key knowledge I believe that you can work faster than many if not all programs out there. However, it is really expensive and the licenses for plug-ins that I’ve purchased have overshot the cost of the program by miles. I finally have no cracked software (My first one was a crack – Cubase VST lol) but with Pro Tools it took me quite a bit to get both the hardware and software up to where they need to be.

As for the errors, they shouldn’t happen unless you are using something that is not supported like a Turion processor or Vista 64 bit. Granted, I think it’s dumb that they don’t just figure it out and solve the problems of incompatibility, some certain computer systems and operating systems give them too much trouble to even consider.

Definitely write down the error codes that you are getting and search them on the Digidesign website because hopefully it’s just something simple. Lastly, if you are just fed up with Pro Tools and have given up, remember to check out current Cubase features because you might just be getting yourself another blank slate program. I would suggest giving FL Studio a shot because it’s pretty cheap and it comes with a ton of plug-ins, but if Pro Tools is confusing you in general with its operation, you might want to check out other avenues.

Just know that recording software, on a professional level is not easy to learn. It really takes practice to get good at. The idea is not knowing where to find a menu item or how to locate a setting, it’s knowing the quick key for it so you don’t get slowed down while making music. There are years worth of available courses to learn and master Pro Tools, but honestly, they are overpriced and the manual, quick key shortcut list, online videos, and lots of practice will do the same thing.

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Avid updates Pro Tools to v10.0.1

Monday, January 30th, 2012

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Avid has announced the release of the version 10.0.1 update for Pro Tools and Pro Tools HD on Mac OS X and Windows. Pro Tools 10.0.1 is an officially qualified and recommended update for all Pro Tool [Read More]
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Pro Tools Vs Cubase, what music program is better?

Monday, January 30th, 2012

Question by Carlos T: Pro Tools Vs Cubase, what music program is better?
Hello everyone, can someone inform me base on experience what program is better for music recording? I use Cubase but people have told me that in today’s market Pro Tools is a better program to have.

Any ideas towards the one that is better?

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Answer by revolutionaudio.ca
Every dedicated Cubase user will tell you it’s the best. Every dedicated Pro Tools user will tell you IT’S the best. The reality is both are quite equivalent these days, depending on the version and what you are trying to accomplish. You can make a professional recording in both. Both are available for Mac or PC.

Pro Tools is used more in “professional” studios – which are studios that are not necessarily more professional sounding (this depends greatly on the operator) but they run full time, take clients, and are typically not in the basement of someone’s home. They have some very high end hardware and controllers that work well in a professional “live off the floor” situation where you need a large number of tracks recording down at once without a glitch. Pro Tools has typically been weak on the MIDI and software instruments end of things, but that seems to be changing with new integrations in PT 7 and especially with the forthcoming Pro Tools 8. Note: You must use either Digidesign hardware with Pro Tools LE or M-Audio hardware with Pro Tools M-Powered.

Cubase has typically been a strong contender for doing both MIDI (working with virtual instruments) and recording audio and so it’s been a favorite in home studios. It is not hardware dependent, meaning you can use a wide variety of audio interfaces with it. It is typically the one I reach for doing professional recording, unless the client cares or has files from another program. My typical producing / recording session is a balance of MIDI and off the floor recordings and so for me Cubase (now at version 4.5) is very flexible solution.

Hope that helps!

Jason
www.revolutionaudio.ca

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about pro tools and florida fruity loops xxl?

Thursday, January 19th, 2012

Question by saiyan warior: about pro tools and florida fruity loops xxl?
hi! i have pro tools and florida fruity loops xxl everytimes im try to import beat to the pro tools using florida fruity loops xxl its said is unreadable, dont wanna play it. could somebody tell me how to make it work?

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Answer by Spekulus
bounce the drum loop out as a 16 bit WAV then import it into Protools using CTRL+SFT+I

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Can you use Pro Tools to create hip-hop beats?

Tuesday, January 17th, 2012

Question by : Can you use Pro Tools to create hip-hop beats?
I’m looking into buying Pro Tools and i want to know if you can use Pro Tools to make beats? I would also like to know what else can you do with Pro Tools… PLEASE HELP Me

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Answer by GM_Zero(not yahoo staff)
if you want to make beats and music id recommend you use FL8(Fruity loops or musixshake 8 hip hop edition

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Lovely Christmas Songbook for iPad, Built with Open Source Scoring Tools (More Platforms Coming)

Thursday, December 22nd, 2011

Have an uncommon yule with tools and music from the Commons.

That’s the pitch (so to speak) of the Ultimate Christmas Songbook, an iPad app built with 50 Christmas songs and a fully free and open source notation engine. Making use of public domain songs, the number of songs available continues to grow as the community contributes tunes. (Those contributors got the app for free.)

As notation proliferates on tablets, the app also suggests that “commercial” doesn’t have to mean “closed.” The scores themselves are available in open, cross-platform formats (MIDI, MusicXML, MuseScore, and PDF). But by generating revenues, the app can support further development – something that’s often been missing in open source music software projects.

And if you’re looking for a way to help family and friends play music, and they have iPads, the score reading features are quite reasonable. You get lovely display of scores, audio playback, tempo change, transpose, and the all-important font resize with reflow so you don’t have to squint.

The app is on iOS now, but other platforms are planned; an Android version is already in testing. And we hear lots more is coming from MuseScore, too, hot on the heals of a release that earned half a million downloads:
A Christmas update from MuseScore

More resources:
Open source code for mscore at SourceForge
Contributed scores to download
Ultimate Christmas Songbook, US$ 1.99 at iTunes
http://musescore.com/, software and community, including the desktop software for Mac, Windows, and Linux

For reference, here’s a look at how the desktop software works:

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Time and Tune, More Fluid: Melodyne Editor 2.0 Brings New Tools, ReWire

Thursday, December 8th, 2011

The Melodyne editor, which promises to make working with audio as fluid as working with MIDI, has long had some impressive technology under the hood. But it’s as the tool gradually matures in terms of workflow and usability that I think it could win some additional converts.

Melodyne 2.0 is a major update to the editor all around, with additional timing and tuning options and better usability, and the addition of ReWire (atop plug-in compatibility) is a big plus for some. It’s easiest to just see the videos, but the overview of what’s new in this release:

Attack Speed tool for editing transients. (That could make this a lot more interesting creatively.) New Time Handles for changing time in the notes. These tools have special applicability to percussion and vocal phrasing, respectively, but may have some other interesting alternative applications.
Edit notes in other scales, temperaments, and tunings. (Re-tuning to alternative tuning systems, anyone?)
Keyboard shortcuts work in plug-in mode, display and highlight is improved.
Work via ReWire with hosts that lack plug-ins. Read: Reason. And that could make this an interesting companion to Reason’s record workflows.

Now, sure, all of this is often understood to be for people who just want to obsessively correct pitch and rhythm of recorded audio. But I remain interested in creative applications, just because the upshot of this is having audio you can modify after it’s been recorded.

There’s just one bottom line: will this stuff be compelling enough that you add an additional tool to your DAW just to get it? I still have yet to hear from die-hard Melodyne users, so if you’re out there reading, I’d love to learn how you use the tool, particularly if you go a bit beyond the way it was intended to be used. (That’s always interesting.)

US$ /€399, $ 99/€99 upgrade, or free if you registered after October 1. More vids:

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Q&A: What is a good desktop computer for recording music with pro tools and watching (maybe editing) lots of video?

Wednesday, November 30th, 2011

Question by supaman: What is a good desktop computer for recording music with pro tools and watching (maybe editing) lots of video?
I record lots of music and watch lots of movies on the computer.

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Answer by louis
I would suggest anything with more than 2 gigs of processor and at least 2 gigs of memory as well. I don’t get too excited about what brand of machine because none of them seem to be made to be upgradeable anymore. Too many things to match up you know. MoBo buss to the processor, to the memory, yada yada.. And as far as on board graphics are concerned I’ve had machines with Invidea and AMD and have been happy with either.

Of course if you have the money to spend there are racy alternatives to on board graphics. And of course there are faster processors and boards that will hold more memory. Depends on what you can afford. And don’t forget the hard drive. I have a machine with a 160 gig hd that has three days of music in the itunes folder alone. And of course the same songs are in a folder for media player and zune. Not to mention over 1000 pictures. And the drive is still around 70% free space. Besides. External drives aren’t real expensive anymore and a lot of them are designed to be portable. They come with travel cases and everything!

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Twisted Tools releases Transform Sample Library by Jedsound

Wednesday, November 23rd, 2011

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Twisted Tools has released Transform, a collection of field recordings, sound effects and designed sounds developed by sound designer Jean-Edouard Miclot (a.k.a. JEDSOUND). Bundled with sample mapping [Read More]
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Q&A: Can pro tools make music by itself like fruity loops or reason or does it need any other stuff?

Thursday, November 17th, 2011

Question by Charlie: Can pro tools make music by itself like fruity loops or reason or does it need any other stuff?
I can’t stand reason and I switched to mac so I can’t use fruity loops anymore, I’m looking to make some dubstep and some samples for my band and I always worked well with the set up from fruity loops. So I wanted to know before buying protools, if it works that way. Specifically if it has the piano roll entry type

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Answer by rockindoc
I have been using Pro Tools for years now. I’m the tech in my own studio. i have no idea what you mean by “piano roll entry type”. You can get plug ins for MIDI Piano, or mic a real one, but this…no idea. I’m thinking you mean you want to loop MIDI files, do to your reference to Reason. ( Which is a GREAT program) I use Reason when writing songs by myself, so my band, & even my drummer, can get an idea where I’m going on one of my many wild tangents. ( I only use the ReDrum part. Great for laying out drum sections. )
There are countless keyboard looping plug ins you can choose from. But they all cost, I don’t know of any free ones.

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Should I get Cubase or Pro Tools?

Avid updates Pro Tools to v10.0.1

Pro Tools Vs Cubase, what music program is better?

about pro tools and florida fruity loops xxl?

Can you use Pro Tools to create hip-hop beats?

Lovely Christmas Songbook for iPad, Built with Open Source Scoring Tools (More Platforms Coming)

Time and Tune, More Fluid: Melodyne Editor 2.0 Brings New Tools, ReWire

Q&A: What is a good desktop computer for recording music with pro tools and watching (maybe editing) lots of video?

Twisted Tools releases Transform Sample Library by Jedsound

Q&A: Can pro tools make music by itself like fruity loops or reason or does it need any other stuff?