

the audio auto quantise is absolutely stunning on acoustic instruments even, where PT fails miserably (for example), and Cubase is "not bad". Better collection of midi plugins, 32 buffer with large number of input tracks armed,(or to even play a single heavy cpu VI like diva/codex etc).it's plugin and synth collection (tape delay, camel audio stuff, chroma verb, retro synth, Alchemy, others), and finally, the superb tempo features in 10.4. I can list some of why I prefer Cubase, and others can decide whether those features matter to them as much as me.įirstly, I will get out of the way, Logic beats Cubase in five areas. Basically, i used PT on and off for 2 years as an alternative to Logic, and i WILL keep my sub up for 99 bucks a year to have studio compatibility, but I have ditched Logic as my main DAW after more than *20 years* in favour of Cubase. Of course the OP is doing a lot of midi, therefore in this context, Cubase and Logic are "better" choices.Īnyway. I will say though, if you don't do any midi, i still recommend PT.

But unfortunately, it is still plagued with issues IMO and is lacking a lot of must have features. Basically, to match Logic's dsp results I had to set reaper to over 2 seconds anticipative processing).Īnyway, the one i dearly love is Pro tool, for ME, the workflow and gui is just like my brain is wired. Logic beats it in all dsp tests of all kinds unless I set reaper to a massive amount of look ahead which makes it effectively sluggish to respond to even a playhead position adjustment, therefore useless IMO. So the Logic performance advantage is now moot, unless of course you want to work at 32 buffer, where Logic still trounces all other mac DAW's (and before someone jumps in and says Reaper. Logic used to be the performance king on mac but as long as you are happy to work at 64 or even better, 128 buffer, Cubase has now matched it's performance and often exceeds it by plugin count to the value of around 10%.

I would honestly consider myself one of the most hard core defenders of Logic since day one, and there are things that drive me batty that I keep thinking will be fixed and never are. Almost exclusively except for a year period where I used cubase during Apple's transition to a mac only Logic.
