Cakewalk 7 versus Pro-Tools and Adobe Audition

Ron ! · Post by **Ron !** » 16 Jan 2008 4:34 pm

Which one is the better one?I have all three here but before I install either one of them and use up a lot of hard-drive space I would just like to know which is the better one.What are the pro's and cons?

Right now I use a lot of Cool-Edit...but it's to limited.

Thanks

Ron

John Roche · Post by **John Roche** » 17 Jan 2008 12:47 am

Ron, Audition is the way to go , it's easy to learn and has everything you need, but if your on a Mac alas Audition is not supported, then I would go the Pro Tools way. But if your needs are for single stereo files I would get Sound Forge

Chris Tarrow · Post by **Chris Tarrow** » 17 Jan 2008 12:33 pm

I believe Adobe Audition IS an upgraded Cool Edit Pro:

http://www.adobe.com/special/products/a ... llium.html

so if you're familiar with Cool Edit, that may be the easiest way to go.

Pro Tools software requires a Digidesign interface and a hard drive other than the one your system is on to record, so installing the software alone will not allow you to do recording.

As for hard drive space, none of the applications take up that much space, it's the sound files that can get quite large, regardless of which app. you record them in.

If you could be more specific about your system and what you want to do, I could probably be more helpful, I'll keep an eye on this thread today.

Miguel e Smith · Post by **Miguel e Smith** » 17 Jan 2008 4:35 pm

...what Chris said about ProTools as well as the all important question..."what do you need or want to do?"

Some of the keys for making a DAW work really well (again, depends on where you want to go with it) is having a DAW that is made and tweaked for audio applications and... having a smokin' interface that works well with the software. If you're planning on using a lot of soft synths, your processor type/speed will be critical as well as memory.

My primary DAW is dedicated for audio (and midi) with separate drives for applications and audio (with an external for backups...which are v-e-r-y important).

By the way, I'm using the current version of Sonar (7.0.2)

seldomfed · Post by **seldomfed** » 24 Jan 2008 6:39 am

hi,
I use Sonar 7 and AUdition both. Sonar for mixing and midi, and Audition for two track mastering. I A/B'd Audition and Soundforge and to me Audition had a nicer interface - the tools are quite good for basic two track editing. The new ver 3 has even more power. For multitrack, Sonar is better IMHO.

John Roche · Post by **John Roche** » 24 Jan 2008 6:57 am

Audition 3.0 is a really easy but very powerful multi- track recording program , we use it in the studio here in Spain , I have had some big names record here and the results are good enough for release on major labels
We use AAMS V2.1 - Auto Audio Mastering System for mastering also Melodyne 3.0 for the pitch correction .
there is a DVD available on using Audition.

http://www.computer-training-software.c ... rd here. http://www.janjohnston.com/