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Hiya,
I own both Pro Tools and Nuendo 3, and have swapped back and forth on them extensively. Here's my thoughts:
For Pro Tools:
-Nothing can touch the speed and efficiency of the editing in Pro Tools. Tab to transient, Beat Detective, Strip Silence, need I say more?
-Obviously Pro Tools is still the standard, and working exclusively in PT makes things a lot easier when transfering projects from here to there to wherever. Believe me, it is a headache transfering back and forth, we do it here all the time and it wastes a lot of time.
-Pro Tools always just works.
-Pro Tools thrives on the Mac platform (Nuendo doesn't... it was built for PC and still runs MUCH better on a PC)... Macs do not crash NEARLY as much as PCs.
-Pro Tools does a much better job of dealing with things globaly... for example, if you shift + option click on a group of selected tracks and select a plugin, or a send, it puts it on all those tracks. There is no way to do this in Nuendo. Sounds small, but it takes up a lot of time in the long run. Nuendo can do this with inputs and outputs, (by option clicking on selected tracks)... but not with anything else.
For Nuendo:
-After much careful listening and comparing, I must say the Nuendo mix bus sounds better than Pro Tools. Just getting rough mixes in both, Nuendo is clearer on the top end, tighter in the low end, and wider. This may have a lot to do with the fact that....
-Nuendo has full delay compensation everywhere... Pro Tools does with plugins, but not with buses. Nuendo 3 even compensates for delay in outboard effects. Sweet.
I'd say the ideal setup would be:
-Do all tracking, overdubs, and editing in Pro Tools.
and... if you're mixing in the box,
-Mix it in Nuendo.
My 2 cents!
Aaron
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