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I know of no one who uses PT as their daw for composing orchestral film music.
Lot's of guys ALSO have PT but mostly for mix and the occasional compatiblity thing.
The original poster stated "This studio will be used for composing/recording music created by samples, along with tracking a few live instruments. I'll goto a larger studio for ensemble recording."
For composing using sampled orchestral libraries (he listed VSL and EW) all the posts about needing HD or better reverbs, mics etc are not addressing the massive computer, ram, hard drive, slave sample computers, inputs, etc. that these libraries require.
I own a PT HD3 accel rig. For composing orchestral based stuff I simply don't use it. Not a sinlge part of it. Any other daw software is much better for composing this sort of stuff and PT hardware is limited when using other daws. Limited in stability in DAE mode (DP and Logic) and limited in inputs when using coreaudio.
Composing with orchestral samples is its own thing with very different needs and challenges than recording anything.
I can't think of one major composer who uses PT as their main daw and not one of the second tier guys I know use PT either. Most all HAVE PT for the obvious reasons but none that I am aware of use it day in and day out for composing this type of music.
Not digi bashing at all here. Its just not even close to being an adequate tool in this area.
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