The original poster made a good remark :
You constantly hear people complaining about Pro Tools.
As for comparing it to Fruity loops and not having some features of it, well .... I guess if you look at it from that angle Pro Tools really sux.
It's funny ... there really IS a lot of stuff that Pro Tools doesn't do if you look at it in detail.
There also is a LOT of stuff that others do better really .... or faster .....
At the end of the day, I guess it has become the industry standard for various reasons but a very important one imho .... and I'm quoting the guys from Canal Plus in France :
'We looked at all possible solutions, both for video and audio .... in the end we needed something that works so we chose Pro Tools'
I can go on giving examples if you like from top professional companies in all domains - post - music - broadcast .......
I've know of several of those personally where they tried out all options seriously ... well maybe not Fruity Loops but the other ones for sure .... and it always keeps coming back. In the end everyone sits round a table and you'll hear things like :
- yeah but Logic does this very well and better ...
- oh and did you see how pyramix does ....
- Man, Nuendo has that things where you can .... AWESOME
And when it comes down to buying a system they buy Pro Tools. Because it works .... nothing more, nothing less ....
The other day I personally ran into a beautiful example of why it IS the standard :
- Friend was trying to digitize a 2 hour beta through his little canopus box in Final Cut, to use as a movie to play back when mixing / editing in Pro Tools. Impossible to capture in one take. Final cut would drop frames ... in total (in the end he turned report frame drops off) it would drop 15 frames over the 2 hours.
- So he brought over the tape to the studio and we digitized it direct in Pro Tools with the beta locked to Pro Tools machine control and our Mojo. Spot on , frame accurate for the entire 2 hours not a single frame dropped.
So we got into thinking that it might be his computer and we tried it on ours as well with the canopus and Final cut. same thing .... frame drops.
See .... it is so hard to convince people sometimes because 99% of the Users out there don't ever come even remotely close to doing something like that. Yet you'll constantly hear moaning about how much more expensive the mojo box is and how the canopus does exactly the same thing. Sigh ..... it doesn't ...
Same goes for full blown HD systems .... yeah but my Fruity Loops ..... sigh, ok get fruity loops and enjoy all the features that pro tools doesn't have but please, BEFORE saying that Pro Tools is NOT up to date to todays professional standards think twice, because it makes you look a bit silly. Professional to WHOSE standards ? Yours or the industry's