Reply To: Band leader wants to subscribe to ProTools ($300/year)

[superabbit]

Hmm, I dunno. If it’s the export dialog that’s tripping you up, maybe spend some time woodshedding it. Call up a simple project, ask some questions on the forum, read the Reference Guide.

If it produced unexpected results in the heat of battle and you found a fix for it, it’s easy to forget exactly what went wrong and how you solved the problem.

What is proposed, switching to a different DAW, is sure to result in a lot of downtime just figuring out how to do basic stuff. Pro Tools, like CbB, is a venerable beast that’s been added on to for over half of my life. Studio One is younger and more coherent, but still, an entire new DAW to learn.

At this point, it sounds like you’re comfortable doing everything you want to do in Cakewalk except for a single feature. Learn that single feature or learn an entirely new DAW? A rather pricey one at that. Studio One is not as hard on the wallet, but still, if one or more bandmates decides they want to record an overdub at home, you’re either into it for another license or you’re exporting tracks from Cakewalk. Again.

-Erik
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