
I'm looking at my big screen monitor, Cake with its themes and all the colors, all the great sounding plugins.and just marveling at how cool this all is and sounds.BandLab empowers you to create, share and discover music, no matter your skill level. That along with iZotopes RX plugins to fix any bad audio thrown at you, creating exceptionally sounding pro VO mixes is so easy. I used iZotope Nectar Elements on the vo track which I think I got for free, the LB multiband compressor on the master (I think was free?) plus a couple of Wave plugins. I just did a ruff mix yesterday and was marveling at how cool the new version of Cake with the ripple editing is and how cool the plugins sound. I've been relegated to doing more of this than I'd like due to the proliferation of music libraries these days. Cubase has some really good advanced features like pitch correcting and time stretching that is hard to match and those things can save your life if a narrator reads a line wrong or you need to "Frankenstein" a sentence. Protools is more compatible with Video editors (AVID) and is designed more as a mixing app so pros tend to use that. Technology is constantly evolving and I tend to see things as long run and at any given moment Cake has seemed to be ahead. Cakewalk has always been a step ahead tech-wise.like 64bit as an example. Maybe because I'm more familiar with Cake I have found it way easier and quicker. I've mixed hour long TV shows, commercials and Industrial videos. I started on tape and have used a Roland system, Protools, Cubase and Cakewalk/Sonar. Ive been doing VO recording, editing, mixing for 3o+ years as a way to fish for music composing jobs.
