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I think some people are saying they think Pro Tools is the best DAW environment. (Stay tuned -- that's not what I'm necessarily saying.)
But what most people here are taking issue with is the fact that the initial question reveals a fundamental lack of understanding of the basic issues -- and lack of understanding seemingly so profound that the initial poster (and one or two others) would appear to have no possibility of undertsanding an intelligent answer that did not require long explanations about things that these indivdiuals should have learned the first day they were recording onto a computer.
Now -- I'm all for cutting newbies slack... but at a certain point personal responsiblity comes into play.
There's just a basic modicum of background knowledge, it seems to me, beneath which a person can not be considered to be capable of intelligent discussion...
If someone thinks converters are a part of a software package, they clearly do not have the knowledge to make sense of any reasonable answer to this question.
FWIW, I don't use Pro Tools and I don't think it's the right answer for everyone. When combined with a Digidesign high end hardware platform, I think it clearly offers a very high level of functionality and power. And even with all the many limitations that Digi arbitrarily iposes on PT LE, I think its power keeps it in the running. But I don't think it's necessarily the best for everyone, for all purposes. It is, however, something of a lingua franca in the industry, and if you want portable job skills (not important to everyone) I think it behooves a recordist to have good PT work skills.
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