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Originally Posted by James 'LA' Lugo  I don't think anythinhttp://www.gearslutz.com/board/images/editor/attach.gifg will ever touch protools, not at least in my lifetime. In the world I live in, pro music in LA, I don't personally work or know anyone on anything but MAC/Protools. A lot of people I know are gearing up to upgrade next year to PT8 and the quad core intel mac. That rig will last at least 5 years if no more.
I installed PT 8 in a new quad core with 8 gigs of ram this past week, pretty slammin'! |
Protools is the standard but is still not the fastest. Nuendo can do 3X the trackcount on a $500 dell?
I mixed 150 tracks Sunday on a stock dell in Nuendo, plugins on 75% of the channels, EQ on almost all. Look at the performance monitor it's at 60% CPU and only 35% Disk Usage? This is not to get into an argument, but I'm asking the question can a PT system of any kind do this for $3000? or any amount of money? I can do 250 -300 tracks at 96/32bit ITB with Nuendo and a cheapo PC
It's no longer a matter of taste issue or which DAW is the industry standard or most widely used.
It comes down to Cubase/Nuendo outperforms PTHD in all aspects CPU, HDD, GDI
Again not trying to get into the typical playground argument DAW A is better than DAW B
but these are facts are real and can PTHD compete? What kind of Hardare and Software does PT require to handle
250 tracks at 96/24 or 96/32? Like I said I got Nuendo up to 250 one time. I bet with some finessing and a faster PC
like a XEON and a 15k fibre drive I could squeeze 400 tracks. I have a 15k fibre at my studio. I did these 150 on my home internet machine?
Neunedo is gonna be tough to beat sorry to say from a performance standpoint. I'd love to see the PTHD put to the max
and compare them on raw performance only. Not based on end user preference, hype or market share.
Let's go boyz................... 150 tracks on a Dell inspiron 96/32 Waves and URS plugs on almost every channel. The drum tracks on this project each have 6 effect inserts filled. 2 Eqs, comp, limiter, reverb, and gate. All the gtrs bass and strings ahave 2-3 effects. There are 40 tracks of vocals all eq'ed with a comp , delay and verb on every channel.
Can HD do this in on a Dell Inspiron 3gig of ram 2.4ghz chip? with a 7200 SATA drive? I hope someone steps up I'd love to see
the results just for fun. Again this is not meant to be a race or battle. I'm just curious. Since all you ever hear is how great and popular PTHD is . But can it really hold up to Nuendo? I got similar a result last week with Cubase 4. 125 tracks multiple plugs on every channel. That's a $500 app. So $1000 to get that type of performance is gonna be a challenge for any other DAW.
End of this month (sept) I'm working on a project that has 125 -150 tracks of just BU vocals. This may top out at 200-225 tracks once I add the strings. Probably 50 string tracks usually do 25 with vienna and then 25 with the real players I'm not sure this dell can handle 225. My other PC with SCSI can. We'll see.