| There has been a small amount of change in certain circles.
For example, Nuendo is actually very commonly used in studios in Nashville and has taken a small % of the post production or TV work from PTHD but we are not talking a revolution here.
Logic and Cubase/Nuendo have been used to produce and mix quite a few recent hit albums. But again, because of the 'engineer's union' protecting Digidesign, it's still very much the minority.
I use Logic and PTHD at work. I prefer Logic for most things, mixing is OK in PTHD so long as you watch your voice allocation and don't make dumb mistakes which cost you voices in PTHD and some of the plugins available in TDM format are really nice, although most have equivalents in native VST/AU/RTAS.
If Logic was having the issues described by the previous poster, then something was not set up right, hardware conflict or user error. I have mixed huge projects in Live since Logic 6 and then 7,8 and now 9 and never experienced those issues.
I agree with you that PTLE/MP could and should be improved because the big studio market (and especially the mid sized studio) is shrinking under the recession and music piracy, coupled with the home studio revolution (so fewer people are going to project studios or mid sized studios to record demos, when they can do it at home for less than a couple of thousand dollars investment). Digidesign can't afford to ignore the home market and their LE/MP product is easily trumped in terms of features and flexibility right now.
if Steinberg changed Nuendo's name to 'PRO - NENDO' I bet they would see a huge upswing in sales. Damned Digidesign, the one thing they got so right was the name, because to most goobers on the street 'PRO' makes it professional - so every other software must be AMATEUR. DOH! But it's so true. Most clients wouldn't know the difference if you had a Nuendo arrange and mixer view and told them it was protools, but if they caught wind they would think you were 'amateur'. |