In my entourage, whether it's back in Canada or here in the US, it's 100% Mac.
 
From chart topping artists in their home and or private studios to legendary producers in the biggest studios in NYC, to composers and their assistants at Cirque, to the people running sequences in Ableton during the show and every single musician - it's all 100% Mac.
 
From my perpective, it's hard to conceive of anything changing any time soon because Mac are every where.
 
Which doesn't mean that there isn't a different reality, growing along side. But it's not overthrowing the Mac/Pro Tools standard, it's simply an alternative which is aimed at an entirely different demographic (for the biggest part, anyway).
 
The one thing that has changed is that alternates like Sonar have earned a reputation as solid and worthy tools.
 
But that's nothing to make an engineer switch software and platform, especially when your entire network is still on Pro Tools/Mac.
 
If you want a chance at cracking that market, to get a shot a working in those studios, it makes sense to learn PT/Mac. If you take the independent approach, anything works, and Sonar is as good as any.

Funny thing about the whole pro tools on mac is that I have yet to meet a mac user that prefers pro tools to Logoc but cite that they learned PT because it's what clients expect and studios they want to work at have.

dubdisciple
Funny thing about the whole pro tools on mac is that I have yet to meet a mac user that prefers pro tools to Logoc but cite that they learned PT because it's what clients expect and studios they want to work at have.

They do exist. My brother-in-law swears by Pro Tools. Same with his wife. I'm guessing that when you learn it in school, and when it's the first you learn...
 
I've worked with it a bit in the past but never got up to speed - performance was never what I expected because PT native was completely inefficient compared to others.
 
You couldn't expect to run the native version on the same machine as Logic and get similar results. The difference was drastic, and CPU/Memory wise, Logic 9 outperformed PT by 90%. I'm not exaggerating there.
 
But with the new machine and all the plans my wife and I have, I've recently upgraded and at least, the native version now does seem to perform pretty smoothly. But after dabbling with it a bit, I went ahead and bought a tutorial from Groove 3. It's frustrating, especially when you're so proficient with one piece of software as I am w/ Logic to find yourself struggling to find a way to split-drag-copy a clip.
 
That being said, so far, almost everything I've learned I can do 5 times quicker in Logic, because of all the hoops I don't have to jump through. But I'm sure there's more to it.
 
I hope to maybe use it to mix certain projects - the stuff I work on with my wife. Most of the people we work with for this project use PT. 
 
I'm also learning it because, in our world, you have to know it, and there are certain gigs which I know require that I am more than simply familiar with it.
 

You don't hear Notepad mentioned much either... 

Thanks for mentioning it craigb (ITIYRN)

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Notepad

Oh, don't mention it.