Hello,
To the best of my knowledge sir, most prod. co. hwre. and SW has some varience but tend to lean to the new integrated "Steinware". Steinberg's newest system is extremely stable. Some (plenty actually) folks out there are still running the also reknowned reliability of the Digidesign System (Protools). Providing this slightly older system is kept updated, I suppose it is no lesser than anything that's new that I'm aware of at this point. All in all, my opinion would be that most are headed toward the Nuendo system including the hardware. I was not even aware of how good it is until a commrade on this board told me about the software part of the system. The bottom line though is that it's not what you got, but how you use it.
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