Thanks for the advice guys. Hummer I appreciate your in depth responses. To be honest I love working in Cubase and find the limitations Digi keeps on protools a little counter intuitive. Not to diss them I have worked in protools on and off and love the editing and overall program. I would in fact already have an LE system if it wasn't for the 32 track limitation and lack of freeze track. I understand they want to sell the HD systems but you gotta put into consideration that the future generations will be the ones buying their systems and if they are all grow up using Logic and Cubase/Nuendo because of small things like Freeze track and track counts limited only by your CPU set up. Digi could easily be
roned. I'm sure this has been discussed to a ridiculous level. So apologize for opening old wounds haha.
To answer your question as to my logic. To be honest I am sacrificing some logic simply for image sake. With PT being the "Industry Standard" I find when I mention I work on Cubase I raise some eyebrows. I know I could easily spend the 12-13,000 on a Mac Pro that would double as ground control for Nasa and run native Cubase/Nuendo like a dream and I might just say **** it and do that (Hence my Queries) But to a client who's only knowledge is that PT is king. It's a little hard to convince them.
It's good to hear the PT will eventually go native, (and hopefully drop it's prices) God knows if they add freeze track and take off track limitations I'm in, and i'll spend the extra cash on an Icon or a control 24.