Harrison Mixbus Daw that gives Pro Tools a run for its money

Check it out,especially when you consider Pro Tools is $599.00 And Mixbus is $79.00
https://mixcoach.com/ten-reasons-mixbus-protools/

It's not compatible with quite a few set-ups. I know people who've bought it, couldn't get it to run and couldn't get a refund. There is no demo version, so you need to be able to afford to lose the cash if it doesn't run. I know people who have waited months for support to respond and then given up. That said, I know people for whom it worked first time, it's very stable and it does sound very good. But I don't think anyone I know would use it as their primary DAW - yet anyway. By all accounts, the latest version is a big improvement over V2. So if you have surplus cash, then certainly try it. But be aware that it's not always as perfect as that report makes out.

Hi Simon I use Pro Tools 12.5 and the bugs and crashes for what is supposedly the pro standard it's pretty unacceptable. To upgrade currently to 12.6 is $299.99 as yet incompatible with Sierra on the Mac. They all have there little idiosyncrasies. Mix bus is $79.00 for the complete program for far superior sound, two buddies are using the latest version of Mixbus and love the clean clear sound. Check avids Pro Tools forum to see all the people struggling with pro tools on the Windows and Mac formats. Reaper is pretty darn good and reliable for anyone starting out. As Rob will testify.

I'm a Cubase user - started out with a lite version many years ago now and have now moved up to the full version. I'm strictly amateur but I have several friends who are pro or semi-pro, some recording studio based, some making their own music for libraries, films, video games etc. I know a lot of the recording studio chaps will typically record in Pro Tools then shift over to Logic to mix. A lot of my more amateur friend use Reaper, but I tried it back in V3 times and never really got into it. The truth is that all of these programs have bugs or weaknesses of one sort of the other, but if you can find one that you like and is reliable on your set-up, then you might as well stick with it. After all, its far more about how you use it that about the DAW itself.

My Mac based friends now say that they are struggling to find any of the new Mac products that they'd consider buying due to lack of suitable interfaces or expandability, especially on the Macbook front. Interesting times ahead.

Hi Simon , I think Apple have lost there way the last Apple Mac Pro was great technically. But all the extra bits of equipment you have to buy to use Pro Tools HD just didn't make sense. It went from buying an old Mac Pro $4000 to a Mac Pro plus all the ancillary gear to about $9000.00 I have a Pro Tools PC that I can use with Mac or Windows software. http://www.pro-tools-pc.com/

I used to use Cubase when it was owned by Steinberg. I believe Yamaha own it now don't they.

Have you seen the new Microsoft Surface Pro http://youtu.be/BzMLA8YIgG0 makes the Macs look pretty dated

Yes, Yamaha own Cubase now, though it's still pretty independent and still based in Germany. They still have the annoying habit of developing new features whilst not finishing off fixing the bugs in the old ones. I'm waiting for the next release to see if they've fixed any of the issues I've raised. Their biggest one for me is their metering. They've got a great (in theory) control room meter, but they haven't implemented the K-metering on it correctly, with far too long an integration time for their RMS values, forcing me to use a 3rd party K-meter plug when it shouldn't be necessary.

I'm using a desktop PC for my home studio, so haven't been looking at portable devices, but that MS Surface Pro looks pretty cool.