just got protools le - what can it do better than reaper?

[kristen]

You know we all use a few different daw solutions to solve particular problems.
Over the years i wound up using Sonar a lot until I found Reaper and switched to Reaper. It does a lot of stuff and is not a resourse hog! But there are some things that Sonar does easier or better .

I have heard a lot about protools and recently got an mbox 2 mini for my laptop (a mac running both mac and windows xp (bootcamp). It came with protools LE. I installed it on the xp side (took about 5 hours because of ...nevermind.. ..lets just say it was a pain). (I use Reaper and/or logic on the mac side). Anway, it took so long just to "start up" that I knew it was a resource hog.
To be fair though, i am sure there must be certain things that pro-tools does especially well that i may keep it on my computer as a "go to" for certain functions. If not, it will be gone very soon. Are there any things that are unique to pro tools or something pro tools does especially well? I would really appreciate answers from reaper users who know how to use both programs to give a fair comparison.

thanks
kristen

[Shan]

Originally Posted by kristen

Are there any things that are unique to pro tools or something pro tools does especially well?

• Edit groups
• Elastic Audio(PT EA work flow needs improvement. Logic Flex Time is better IMHO. REAPER has it, but not as full featured this week.)
• Default settings are more fluid(Up & coming engineers seem to disagree. This can be changed in REAPER by the user of course)
• A more fluid default UI layout(This of course can be changed by the user in REAPER)
• A unified default key command set(This of course can be changed by the user in REAPER)
• Area selection in PT is presented better in the GUI, though REAPER has the same functionality in that area.
• Better Time base ruler layout and choices.

Some of those can possibly be viewed a bit biased towards PT from my 10 years of using it, hence the italics and additional info in brackets. I do know REAPER very well though and have been using it since it's 1.x birth.

Shane

[kbruff]

Originally Posted by Shan

• Edit groups
• Elastic Audio(PT EA work flow needs improvement. Logic Flex Time is better IMHO. REAPER has it, but not as full featured this week.)
• Default settings are more fluid(Up & coming engineers seem to disagree)
• A more fluid default UI layout
• Unified default key commands
• Area selection in PT is presented better in the GUI, though REAPER has the same functionality in that area.

Some of those can possibly be viewed a bit biased towards PT from my 10 years of using it, hence the italics. I do know REAPER very well though and have been using it since it's 1.x birth.

Shane

I wish I could combine, PT, FL Studio, Cubase and Reaper.

It is for me very sad when I see the beauty of PT, the amazing features of FL, the in depth structure of Cubase and the advanced functions of Reaper.

I wish they could be in one program.

I really think PT multitrack beat detective is good, and also the quantize to grid and separate to grid is priceless.

But jumping to reaper - it is just a great tool - man, what more can I say.

Cubase VST frame is amazing, a global preset manager and asset manager in one -- pure brilliance.

And my long time friend FL studio...what a clever program.

[TOM@METRO]

And as a side note... Reaper has ADC. Native Pro Tolls has yet to implement this.

[Shan]

Originally Posted by TOM@METRO

And as a side note... Reaper has ADC. Native Pro Tolls has yet to implement this.

Hopefully the OP wont ask the same question in reverse. I don't want to type the extremely long list.

Shane

[AlexLakis]

Originally Posted by TOM@METRO

Pro Tolls

Freudian Slip, or...?

[kbruff]

Originally Posted by AlexLakis

Freudian Slip, or...?

I love that one -- that is my new joke -- thanks!
From Pro-Fools to Pro-Tolls

[Draulym]

or in Lemonsqueezer's case: Pro-Trolls

[Shan]

Originally Posted by Draulym

or in Lemonsqueezer's case: Pro-Trolls

Interesting first post on the forum by the OP.

Shane

[audiogeekzine]

Originally Posted by Shan

• Elastic Audio(PT EA work flow needs improvement. Logic Flex Time is better IMHO. REAPER has it, but not as full featured this week.)

Gotta disagree with you on that one. When I tried Logic 9 Flex time was terrible, for drum editing specifically.