
What this does is it chops off the silent parts of clips. Before when working in Live I went through the trouble of actually listing all my plugins in categories in Notepad and refer to it every time I wanted a saturator, for example. You automatically get lists for EQ, dynamics, harmonics… and this is super handy. I have been craving for this for so long: seeing relevant plugins in categories.

The Pros - What Is Great About Pro Tools For Me I am going to list the points in two groups: the pros and cons about Pro Tools as opposed to Live. I also appreciate that there may be some points about Pro Tools that I have misunderstood due to my lack of experience in it, and I’d absolutely love it if readers gently corrected me on anything I have said that is not true. It is a “how I’m feeling about Pro Tools after a week or so, having used Ableton Live daily for so many years” type of post. So after a few days of using Pro Tools, here are my first impressions.Īnother thing I feel I need to emphasize here is that some of my points may appear minor to some, but please keep in mind that the small things may be huge to those who work with audio every single day, and this is a catalog of my experiences as I get to grips with Pro Tools. However I have now mastered around ten songs in Pro Tools, having set up my mastering chain in Pro Tools as well as done some mixing in Pro Tools too. I’d proudly call myself an Ableton Live expert, but I’m, of course, a Pro Tools newbie. I’d like to emphasize that this post is not an exhaustive feature list or such like – after all, I’ve only had Pro Tools on my hard drive for around a week when I wrote this. So here are my thoughts about the differences between Live and Pro Tools as well as some shortcomings of both as to this day, I believe that a perfect DAW probably does not exist.

What is more, I ended up liking it, and prior to writing this, I put an order in, which means I’ll definitely be using it alongside Live. Why? I have heard a lot of good about it in terms of its editing and mixing capabilities and as that’s my job and that’s what I do a lot in my free time as well, I decided to check out Pro Tools. Having been an Ableton Live user for so many years, I recently decided to give Pro Tools a shot. So when new community member Janne Hatula reached out to us to tell their story of moving in the opposite direction by changing from Ableton Live to Avid Pro Tools and offering to share their story with us.

We have heard a good number of stories and comments both here and elsewhere of people abandoning Pro Tools in favour of other DAWs like Logic Pro and Studio One for example.
