Ryan Haygood

protools, more like, make something else

great music has been made with pro tools. how do they do it? beats me ... but what i do know is that, protools blows under table bubblegum. it looks old. its not for me. i took a puff, and it tasted like ... old garbage.

what claude code 2.1.136 thinks about protools

claude why is pro tools ass

Ha, pro tools is ass — Pro Tools has a reputation. The usual complaints:

Pricey subscription model — used to be a one-time purchase, now you rent it forever

iLok hassle — license dongle/cloud licensing that breaks at the worst times

Sluggish on modern hardware — feels heavier than competitors doing the same work

Clunky MIDI — workable but noticeably worse than Logic, Ableton, or Cubase

Dated UI — menus and workflows that haven't really evolved

Crashes / session corruption — especially with big sessions or third-party plugins

Locked-in file format — hard to move sessions in/out of other DAWs cleanly

It's still the studio standard for tracking and mixing because pro studios are locked in and the audio editing workflow is genuinely fast once you know it. But for everything else, Reaper, Logic, Studio One, and Cubase generally feel less painful.

What's it doing to you specifically? Might be something fixable.

the ole dongle issue.

how not to be sad

solution, vibe pollution, needs restitution. sometimes, you have to take matters into your own hands. you have to get dirty. claude hits you with a

why are we doing this

help

you have to brush it off, you know what you are doing, you have taste.

third time is the charm

making music is fun, you get lost. you dont think your way to making something that sounds good, it is an emergence, a spirit, a transformation from unknown, to known. how do good songs get created? well usually its an organic thing that happens. pro tools is like a cardbox box thats kinda wet but its a box and you have to ship something.

so why are all the popular songs wrote, planned, edited over, and not organically made at all

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garbage music

beauty is in the eye of the beholder. a factual statement. i think it is the only factual statement. everybody lives in a different reality. we dont share reality, it's our own. it emerges from our mind. not the other way around, our modern paradigm has it backwards. so technically speaking garbage music isnt a thing. florida georgia line, this is like someones beethoven, this is okay, this is how it is.