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I think Matt said it all...I also run a "SOMEWHAT_COMMERCIAL studio with LE & my rig has actually kept from having to go HD... I got it modded by BLA which made a great difference & I have good external converters.. 18i/o & my mixes are just as big as anyone in my city with HD3 rigs; & really being honest BIGGER because I get all the work from them...
As Matt said ATA is "the" solution pretty much to the "NO ADC" in LE... But even before that it was never a major problem for me as I mix mostly gospel records with track counts averaging 70(yes 70) tracks... So now with PT8 coming i won't have to do what i do normally which is take all the keys/organ tracks & turn the to stereo pairs, so if I have 12 mono tracks worth of keys then I turn that to 6 gaining another 6... I do the same for Vocal parts that are the same voices...most of the time i'd @ least have 25 mono tracks of vocals or more.. so that can go down to maybe 12-14 stereo tracks just depending... So i've gained another 10-12 tracks... I'm actually mixing a record right now I'm Producing on Vickie Winans that I also tracked & she cut @ my place on my LE rig...& i'm looking @ 87 tracks...Granted this is MIDI, INSTRUMENT & AUX tracks included but i'm running REASON4, PHILHARMONIK, NI ELEKTRIK PIANO, MOTU SYMPHONIC ORCH, EAST WEST STRINGS, COLOSSUS, 2 TL SPACE, IK CSR ROOM VERB, 4 SSL CHANNELS, 3 SSL COMP(1 on the master buss) 3 URS PLUGS, 5 MASSEY TAPEHEADS, 4 MASSEY EQ & 1 TAPEHEAD DELAY, 2 OXFORD LIMITER, 3 McDSP PLUGS, 3 T-RACKS CLIPPERS, 3 BOMB FACTORY 76, DRUMAGOG, 4 API EQ & 1 API COMP, 5 DEVERBS, 4 WAVES RBASS, 4 V-SERIES EQ(waves neve) along with MUCH automation of course being it's gospel from send volumes to mutes to pans, midi automation & just volumes on the vocals/music etc.
I said/wrote all that to say that I know for a fact, & believe me i've worked on many HD rigs as well, but I can do just as much with my LE; money is not a problem as to why I've never upgraded; i've not upgraded because going between the to, I've never sought a reason to when I do what I do well with LE especially now that they've done what they have with PT8; & I actually run my system on PC(custom built) with the 3gig switch so that allows me to open up as much as I need without any slowdowns or crashes & crashes are VERY minimal on my system... I think with what Matt pointed out & details i've giving it should help a little with ur decision... People are gonna say "LE is not for a commercial studio" but thatz a lie because I get all the Commercial studios business in my city & this is no exxagerration.. they may go there 1st, well they use to go there 1st but now all pretty much comes thru me when it comes to POP/R&B & gospel & even CCM artist now... hope this helps...
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