Logic Pro or Ableton Live - experiences? Leaving Pro tools...

[arska]

Hi there,

I've used Pro tools close to 10 years for composing anything from EDM to piano music to orchestral and got even nice placements that Im grateful of. However times seems to changing now.

I have old but powerful Mac Pro 2012 with dual Xeon core and 128gb of RAM and it supports up to Mac OS High Sierra that i have. It means I can not install newer than 2020.12 Pro tools and I cant install Ableton Live 12 either. But I have already logic pro x and they dont charge me for anymore anything =) I'm just quite fed up with Pro tools current monthly / yearly licensing model that will cost fixed 200-300 euros per year so would like to give some other DAW possibility.

Do you have such experiences from Logic and or Ableton or even from switching from Pro Tools to either of those DAW's? Any recommendations?

Minus in switching DAW is that all 50+ tracks left to ProTools that needs to be imported and adapted to Logic Pro in case need to work with them, though that is quite unlikely.

Of course I have choice to abandon my Mac Pro that to which I've upgraded and did spend 1200 euros 2 years ago. On the other hand it has enough power still and would like to use it, it just cant be used with new mac os and new versions of DAWs though not sure will i miss anything important even having older versions in use.

Regards,
Arto

[RealPickle]

I am a huge Logic fan and apologist, but I will say after years of being around people who use different DAWS and actually having a number of convos about this at the Rally, I feel like any of them can be great if you learn how to use it properly.

The one thing I think helps Logic stand apart is the stock plugins. I believe they are excellent and alleviate the need to spend lots of money on plugins. It depends on the music you are making and your needs, but for example for the instrumental music I make, I've never seen the need to use any compressors other than the ones included with Logic.

The other thing I'd say is since you are using a Mac, I think Logic tends to work a bit more efficiently on it than other DAWS, but I could be wrong about that.

Just my 2 cents.

[davidagates]

I tried many DAWs over the years but for me, personally, it's Ableton. It's incredibly versatile, very natural and straight forward workflow and it's also a DAW which I can record my own music (anything from indie to electronica) as well as scores with equal ease. In any case I find it's mostly the composer themselves and once they get a handle on any daw the quality is just a matter of being good and learning the relevant ropes.