Why ignoring sony vegas 5.0 on this forum board.I agree its a very old version but still a part of sony creative softwares and many may still be using it for recording purposes as I do.
Thank you for your reply Mr. Geoff BUT I experienced one thing on board most of the people hesitate or do not bother to see or answer to any thread posted which is not with the relevant Forum Topics and that is Sony Veigas 5.O
I think that's optional depending on the user's needs. I've never needed MIDI and it's extremely unlikely that i ever will. So for me, adding MIDI makes it no more a DAW than it is without it.
Since i work exclusively with recorded acoustic audio, the "ACID" features of ACID actually make it less useful for my music editing than Vegas is without them.
- But to qualify as a full 'DAW' it really needs MIDI capability, no ?
No! DAW = Digital Audio Workstation. MIDI is for kids in garages; a language between synth instruments. I've survived over 40 years on Pro Audio knowing virtually nothing about MIDI :-)
I agree that if you don't need or use MIDI Vegas is great, but where have you been hiding for the last 30 years ?!! ;-)
Practically every 'real' professional recording studio in the world is hardly "kids in garages".
And I'm not a kid in a garage. I use Acid when I need MIDI, as it is a full DAW, but nowhere near as elegant as Vegas which is a NLE with great audio features ....
...where have you been hiding for the last 30 years ..
ha ha ! I've been lucky enough to spend most of my time in studios recording and mixing real musicians (orchestral and otherwise) playing proper instruments reading actual printed music for film soundtracks - any synthy bits I just treat as another instrument, so it's up to the musician to grapple with their technology and come up with the goods - at best my MIDI involvement means I feed them MTC if they can't play properly and have to sequence the sounds.....