Pro Tools vs. Sonar vs. Logic vs. Cubase: does it makes a difference in my production?

by Odayr Baptista

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good or bad? There are many other applications such as Samplitude,

Live, Adobe Audition and Reaper that has the same goal: producing music in multitrack.

It is known that "all are good!" There's no telling that the choice of one or another application will determine the end of a production quality.

Are there sound differences? Yes.

But this difference makes a song is sounding bad in Sonar will sound good in Pro Tools? No.

Reaper

what makes the difference? Nowadays, what makes a difference is the user. That

means it is not the application itself that will determine the result, but their relationship with him.

Make the most of your Digital Audio Workstation is the big difference today. It is a fact increasingly common to receive written material in a high-level absolutely limited software such as GarageBand, and while listening to a lot of bad recorded in elite software like Pro Tools and Logic Pro.

ProTools

What happens is that GarageBand user is using the software to the limit, and doing everything possible and impossible to increase the quality of their productions.

On the other hand, users who have installed Pro Tools, Logic Pro and Cubase because they were recommended as "the best there is" or "the most professional" but did not have much time (or patience) to devote, are living at war with these applications, struggling to produce each song, each track, each measure.

When you realize, it is clear that they are spending more time fighting than with making music software.

Garage Band

Then the way is to use basic software? Well, the way is to use well what you have on hand.

The software that you have the necessary time to study and learn to deal with it. If you are a busy guy and only has an hour a day to devote to learning a software, use the simplicity on your side.

Do not worry about the fact that something be "professional" or "amateur". The more complex, more time is needed to master software and less time you have to devote to it, which is music.

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