[dominicperry]

I used S1 v3 and v4 for a long time before moving to Logic and PT. There are endless DAW-wars on Gearspace etc so I'll keep my opinions short, and they're just that - opinions.

I had problems with:

1) Midi timing - record something and then play it back, just didn't sound right. No idea what was going wrong but no obvious solution.
2) sudden full-scale noise - as reported on a big thread on the forum - not good when I have 1.2kW of monitoring.
3) Forum is "community support" staffed by enthusiasts and people who won't hear a word said against the product, along with some dullards who always have the same solution for everything
4) developers are rude when they turn up on the forum and are focussed on new features rather than bug fixes

Good stuff:

1) Great UI. Slick, intuitive and fully drag and drop. If you don't mind the blue on blue scheme, it's really easy on the eye and the metering is good.
2) Lots of features.
3) Good value.

Other stuff:

1) Notion is a separate product for score editing and is horrendous.
2) Stock plugins behave differently with some major (and some minor) releases, so really hard to know if a mix saved today will work the same in the future.
3) Saved mix files will usually only open with the same or later versions of the product.

Things I like about PT in comparison.
1) Great music score (looks nice and sensible when converting midi to score). Better than Logic too IMHO.
2) Saved files work with multiple versions (forward and backward compatibility)
3) Forum has lots of professional users and pragmatic opinions. Plenty of die-hard PT users but not blind to shortfalls
4) Devs and product specialists from Avid are polite and constructive when they turn up.
5) PT metering is great. UI is clear, sensible and usable.
6) Loads of support for "stuff". Video, control surfaces, post, Atmos, the list is long.

Dominic