Digidesign Structure family is growing with the the Digidesign Structure LE and Structure Free additions. This is real good news to all you budget producers. Like cooking Digidesign’s A.I.R. team has really put their foot in this one. This is one hot synth that really does sound awesome and makes it very […]
Digidesign Structure family is growing with the the Digidesign Structure LE and Structure Free additions. This is real good news to all you budget producers. Like cooking Digidesign’s A.I.R. team has really put their foot in this one. This is one hot synth that really does sound awesome and makes it very easy to start producing without worrying about if it is compatible with Digidesign’s Pro Tools.
I do recommend just saving your money and waiting to get the full version of Digidesign Structure if you can. I can’t see you passing on those 20 gigabytes of sounds. So…
Here’s a brief comparision between the the Digidesign Structure family:
The Digidesign Structure sound library consists of 20gb with a bonus 30-day trial of EastWest’s 40 GB Goliath. Structure LE consists of 3gb and the Structure Free bringing in a not to bad 885 megs.
All Structure versions support up to 25-bit 192khz common audio files. For all you sound designers the Structure and LE version also can whip out 7.1 surround sound.
Ok now this is what seperate the men from the boys. While I can actually pass on the sounds I can’t pass on the feature to edit the samples and only the full version of Structure can do that. The other versions are limited to only importing samples.
While Structure Free is good for most hip hop producers for those that love making a song with body you will be limited to only 4 instances of Structure. With the Digidesign Structure LE and full version this is unlimited.
The biggest difference of all comes in the sound engine and this is where Digidesign fails in my opinion. The full version of Structure has a whopping multimbral support of 128 channels. Digidesign LE has a measly 8 channels and Free only 4. I would’ve expected at least 64 but no less than 32 for Structure LE and 8-16 channels for free. That’s a big gap in support.
There’s also a huge difference in polyphony and auxiliary outputs. While the main version has 31 aux outs the free version rings in at a whopping nil. Come on guys! Thanks for giving us a free version but should it be this crippled?
Anywho that’s it for me. Save the change get Digidesign Structure. If your limited in funds go for Structure LE. Regardless of the limitations of Structure Free if you just want to take Structure for a test drive those 800megs of sounds should give you plenty inspiration.
More Info at Digidesign.com
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