Pro Tools was one of the very first viable ways to record digital audio to the computer and do it good! For a while I just knew that Opcode's Studio Vision was going to win the race hands down and I invested heavily in that system. Well WRONG! hehe! Studio Vision was light years ahead of any other midi systems at 1st and then audio later as soon as it was added to their midi package it could do midi editing that current day systems still can't do and probably never will
I was turning audio tracks into midi files left and right and with a little patience and editing it worked like a charm and of course it worked the other way as well meaning midi to audio. Mono worked the best but it would polyphonic (some what) and it allowed me to play my guitar as a bass which meant I could play all the bass lines on my guitar and then turn them into midi then manipulate as needed using good actual real audio samples while using the midi notes to play the samples.
Then those so and so's and I can think of a few other names I called them at the time went sold out to Gibson (thanks to Scott for setting me straight on the Gibson deal I forgot). So there I was stuck with about 50 floppy disks and a paper back manual that was as thick as "Gone With The Wind" and it was useless it also came in a nifty big slide out box of course I still have every disk including the nifty slide out box
Naturally we all know that it didn't die that moment but I knew that it wouldn't be long before it would be useless especially as newer operating systems came out that didn't support it. So there you have it. I sometimes wonder that if Gibson hadn't canned Opcode Studio Vision Pro if Pro Tools would still be number one today or would Studio Vision have jumped out to the number one position and be on version number 200 LOL! There's no doubt for that to happen Gibson or some company would had to have ported the code over to the PC side for it to have had that chance. But we'll never know now huh?
Just a few thoughts on Daw's (my definition of a DAW is any combination of hardware or software or computer apps that can take a project from zero to finished ready to go to the mastering house) I use Sonar the newest vs. but I still am disappointed with its midi editing capabilities along with some of its other features or the lack of them but of course midi was suppose to have died 10 yrs ago LOL!
I thought just for fun I'd add a poll to see what some of us use. As far as the poll goes I know I surely missed several other DAW's so if yours isn't on there just check other and put in your post what you use.
