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(Unverified)Sep 10th 2009 8:45PM
Personally, I believe this is a terrible TERRIBLE idea. I'm a long time Pro Tools user and a professional engineer and system designer and I'll be the first to say that there are just some people that DON'T NEED PRO TOOLS. And the fact that things like this are sold in Best Buys and Wal-Marts makes things really really tough on everyone. I'd be willing to bet that Digi's already backed up tech support line will light up like a Christmas tree and the one hour wait will turn into 2-3. I think that companies like Presonus have really taken the right approach by making a program called "Studio One" that makes getting up and running dirt easy. Same with Garageband (which can be used as a spring board into Logic). Once someone understands the basics of recording enough, then graduating into something more powerful and feature laden like Pro Tools is a great thing. But as someone who really knows and loves Pro Tools and thinks it's the best thing to happen to recording since Les Paul started playing with multi-tracking... I have to stand up and say that I don't feel that MOST people who buy this will not have a good experience (simply because they can't wrap their heads around it) and it will ultimately turn them off to recording because they will feel it is too complicated and overwhelming for them when it doesn't have to be.
I guess in short, there are more artists out there that want to record than recording engineers that want to make art. The latter already has the tools to get the job done... the former is in for a big surprise.