Pro Tools uses a split mono stereo wav by default, you can change it in Cakewalk to be like that. It makes a difference on some things I would imagine (why that Air Stereo Widener works so well). I never really gave it a good test in Cakewalk/felt the need. I like to keep it simple and having two dials drives me nuts lol. It could arguable be better, but only because of that not because anything else that the two do differently I don't think.
I think in Pro Tools it does something to let you better hear what you are going to hear whereas in Cakewalk you wont hear what's actually being printed until you play it back. A lot of people have commented that when you use Pro Tools, all of a sudden everything sounds weird but it's monitoring what it's going to print at all times. Cakewalk can do it with other sound cards (and this one with input monitoring enabled...but it doesn't mute the sound so you wont hear it properly like in Pro Tools...the point goes to Pro Tools on input monitoring).
I usually have to find some trick to try and get my sound the way I want it with both programs by EQing or something anyway. Even on the highest end Pro Tools interface in a studio, we had to EQ stuff because you really don't hear all the details while recording. Maybe it's just a "first time you hear it" thing with our ears and nothing more I don't know but it's probably just that the digital interface "hears" better than us and then "shows us what it heard." I miss tape sometimes lol
Edited by TLTD (03/29/12 10:59 PM)