Proteus X

[Dr_Evil_Mouse]

My dad is looking at buying some recording software, as he's been having troubles running Cubase on XP. Proteus X came recommended to him, but he's a bit miffed by all the copy. In his words, "I'm not at all sure that it will do me any good to have 'over 50 Z-Plane morphing filters' or 'multi-wave LFOs' or a 'PatchMix DSP software delivering up to 32 channels of zero-latency hardware mixing and monitoring with flexible virtual patchbay'." He tends to use it for composing, typically with MIDI, putting together background music for travel videos, that sort of thing - little if any analog input, though.

Any advice, anyone? Should he hang on to Cubase and reinstall Windows 98, or is Proteus worth the plunge?