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Old 4th July 2009   #17
bgroup
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Originally Posted by dannygold View Post
I looked at a session in HD today with this issue in mind... ren eq didn't appear to cause latency, rec comp did (according to the latency comp display at the bottom of the mixer) So I imagine it's a mixed bag. You can always nudge tracks back to compensate or use time adjuster in LE if you don't want to get mellomuse... some of us remember the days before auto laency comp! I'd certainly NEVER let it stop me from getting work done. Yeah, it's inconvenient... but so are a lot ot things in the world of recording. Ultimately we just need to deal with the tools at hand.
No disrespect intended, but it's a HUGE deal IMO. Since pretty much every decent piece of software available today has ADC except PT LE, things like nudging tracks shouldn't even be discussed anymore. I spend exactly equal amounts of time in PT LE and Cubase 4, and once you've done any significant amount of mixing with ADC, LE is not "inconvenient", it's ridiculous. And try using the UAD plugs - it's unusable without ADC, SERIOUS nudging or having the same plugs on every track. Not bashing PT here, I quite like it in a lot of ways, but in a modern world where more and more mixing is being ITB, this IMO is not a "feature" but an essential part of software. I too remember when I mixed ITB without ADC... but that was years ago, and I had no alternative software that gave it to me... it's hard for me to believe that it's even still an issue. Frankly, if PT HD wasn't industry standard, it's my belief that LE would have died a long time ago. I guess if you live in a PT-only world you deal with it, but if you spend any amount of time using the alternatives that are out there, you realize what a bad, out of date, seriously crippled piece of software LE really is... I believe Digi knows this but seem very cavalier about their market share... the "major label" of music software?? Rant over... sorry if I've offended anyone...
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