Almost Crapped My Pants, over news of emagic & DD collaboration Options

[FroBoy909]

ok, so maybe i exaggerated a little with the title, but this collaboration between pro tools and logic could serioulsy be something huge. my big question right now is whether this newfound friendship between the two godfathers of the biz will mean that i will at some point in the (hopefully near) future be able to use an awesome piece of machinery like the digi002 with an equally awesome program like logic; and, almost as cool, be able to use pro tools plugins with logic? i realize this might be a little too much to ask, but firewire makes me drool (literally) and it seems like pro tools has approximately 1 billion more plug-ins available than logic does.

[Teiwaz]

Hi Froboy909. Maybe I can help illuminate the situation a little.

You said:

"and it seems like pro tools has approximately 1 billion more plug-ins available than logic does."

You are correct in assuming...ie: it 'seems'...

I think you got the 2 platforms mixed up. Also, Logic's plug-ins come free already built into it, but you only get a handful of digirack, or is that digicrap plug-ins with PT. They may throw in a couple of Bum Factory's, and a Bogusrite EQ, but there is not very much available in the way of "funky sounding" plug-ins on profools at all.

If Logic is a lush sonic paradise, then notools is the desert. You have to spend enormous amounts of money to have a HANDFUL of plug-ins on profools. Also, Logic's plug-ins are savvy, insofar as they automatically sync themselves to the tempo of the sequencer. What plug-in does that on profools?!

Then when you also take into account that Logic's plugs are available with most available audio drivers except DAE, and that you can also run VST plugs on the same driver simultaeneously, then how can it be possible that dodgydesign can even begin to compete with this enormous tsunami of software technology crashing down on top of it's ugly fat head?



Summary: Never assume anything. It's good to be factual!