Pro Tools vs. Cubase

or any other DAW (Cubase, Logic, Nuendo, Sonar...)That is the real debate right there! I'm bringing this up because it constantly comes up when i talk to other producers, engineers, manager's, or anybody involved with music. AND, they always seem to bash anything that's not pro tools. I guess protools is the "Industry Standard" because most pros use protools in their studios. However, that does not mean that it is necessarily a better program. I happen to use Cubase(Studio 4), and I love it.

Before I purchased Cubase, I did mad research on different DAW's to buy. I actually was going to buy protools but decided not to in the long run. Cubase did everything that protools could and more. Plus if I was going to get protools, I'm going to spend the cheese and get the HD version of protools which is what most pro studios use. Pro Tools LE is just not messing with Cubase 4 and Studio 4, bottom line. In my opinion no one DAW is better than the other, it's all based on preference. They are all professional systems that will give you professional results. But LE versions are limited...

Bottom line is, it doesn't matter what program you use, it's the end result of the product that matters. When I get to that level of where I'm in and out of pro studio's and they are all using pro tools...cool, i'll learn pro tools just to know it, but Protools HD in my opinion is catered to alot of Industry Studios, wheras in my opinion, programs like Cubase, Sonar, Nuendo, and Logic are more for home studios. Bottom line is this: Protools, Nuendo, Cubase, Sonar, Logic are all professional programs and will do everything you need it to, to give you state of the art professional audio quality. It's the artist that makes the program, not the program that makes the artist.

For now, i'm sticking with Cubase...(What can I say, I'm a technical dude man. I'm more than just someone who goes into the studio and sings or raps for 3 hours and im done. I dig in man, I like to know how to engineer, how to mix, how to master, etc. I was a M.I.S. major in college, what you expect!)Anyone who can figure out Cubase is OK in my book. I can probably learn pro tools in 20 minutes. It took me almost 2 months to master Cubase and like 4 months to Master my Motif...