They don't play nice with anything and you are basically forced into their proprietary nightmare of overpriced stuff.
Huh? Last time I checked, nobody was sticking a gun to anyone's head to use anything. LOL.
Yes it does work for the most part (after years of questionable garbage),
I only agree that they had some years of questionable garbage in midi, but that was over come in the mid-late versions of PT.
but in the last decade there really isn't any reason to stick with them with advances in CPU speeds and the move to digitial acquisition.
Its the only software that allows to to perform every single function with the keyboard. This is why its called "Pro Tools".
But the proprietary formats...
And is VST not a proprietary format?
(and incompatibility between their own products, try editing on Media Composer and then send it to Airplay for broadcast...it didn't work) has soured me permanently.
You are the first person who i have heard this complaint from. Please do not try to convince me there is any other video editing software to the level of Avid. So are you saying you think all the institutions and major film editing houses should switch to Adobe Premiere? Anyways, I think we should stick to the confines of audio only here due to my missing RTAS complaint to certain plug-in companies - especially the iface one which is supposeddly a great tool for the now industry standard Redwirez impulses.
I hate their interfaces as well...what is up with that stupid hamburger and funky timeline?
Which hamburger? Which funky timeline? The universe window? Thats the coolest thing they invented to allow you to instantly go to any spot in the session.
I've lived through almost 20 years of their shenanigans of tying hardware to applications and forcing you to go strictly with their product line....
They are not forcing anyone to do anything. People have the choice to select other DAWs. The fact that their software doesn't work without their hardware is genius and they deserve the monopoly in the professional industry that they have achieved for making that aspect un-crackable and un-hackable. Likewise for the Pro Tools HD cards which are insane DSPs allowing tons of TDM plug-ins at a time to function flawlessly. No computer can do this. Thats why the price of their HD cards are more expensive than most PCs and Macs. Absolute brilliance.
I could sit here and spend weeks telling you about AVID problems I've had to deal with over the years. The bottom line is that every system has it's own set of characteristics that make it "special" and nothing is full proof. Even systems that I would prefer over AVID have their issues and I won't pretend they don't. But I won't have to pay for 200 client seats in order to use a Unity server which is baiscally hardware that I already paid for.
Of course every system has issues. But perdonally, ever since my entrance into the A/V industry 5 years ago, I have experienced the least amount of issues in my experience with avid/digidesign out of all other systems. They are rock solid and although like any software, glitches exist, but fatal errors are the least common in digi/avid. This is also another key important reason you are not recognizing has contributed to their success in actually selling that hardware-dependent software which you believe is coerced into making customers buy. That is not co-ercion - it is protection from cracking the software built deep into the foundation of the system - which no hack that i know of has ever taken the time to re-program and reverse-engineer because of the time it would require for no real reward. And yes, the potential for power and greed is ripe for being taken advantage of. I have no comment on that, but it does not take away from the other points.
And most of those will use non-proprietary codecs so that you can use other applications and systems. You wouldn't believe the headache we went through to try to configure a frameserver on a Media Composer a few months ago so that we could get it to spit out to a serving that would convert it to mpeg in order to load into an Omneon Media Grid. And AVID acted like the frameserver was some new revolutionary idea; I've been using them for at least 10 years now and I paid $20 for one that actually worked unlike the DOS based garbage that we paid through the nose for.
Perfection is a difficult proposition, but perhaps they have let people down in some regard after making all that money. You seem to know alot about the broadcast portion of their product which has led to much of your frustration with it as the ins and outs seem to have been a nightmare for you. I will still stick to the RTAS complaint and i believe my reasoning is still valid for such a complaint..
Being the biggest and industry standard doens't make it the best. It just makes it the most popular. If that was what mattered most in life than Line6 would obviously outperform the AxeFX.
This is not a fair comparision. If anything, Cubase is a more popular standard among the home user. But the level of depth of Pro Tools is evidenced in 11 textbooks in the Pro Tools Certification process. No other DAW course is that extensive. I took the first two levels. Session customization and recall based on tons of settings alone is an entire course in and of itself. In addition, it is a myth that other DAWs are still better for midi work. The difference is that in PT, midi stuff is more like driving a manual as opposed to driving an automatic with regards to logic for Midi. But again, the only software allowing everything to be done by quick keys and shortcuts.
And to answer your question about lecab, it's been quite a while since I messed with it, but it worked perfectly fine with savihost last time I fired it up. Make sure that you're using ASIO drivers is the first thing that comes to mind for me.
Thats fine i'll just use iface in tobybear minihost vst standalone as now I have no other choice because I have been forced to use VST. LOL.
I accept that at work, but at home, for my personal use, I'll never use anything that they have their hands in. I've lived through almost 20 years of their shenanigans of tying hardware to applications and forcing you to go strictly with their product line....for work that's fine because it isn't my money.
