Advantages:
- User friendly layout.
- Includes a large amount of instruments and effects
- Capable of very high quality recordings
- Allows for multi-track recording separately and simultaneously
- Allows for MIDI control of synthesized instruments
- Can only be installed on Apple computers
- Relatively expensive
- Few downloadable plug-ins
- Difficult to learn without prior knowledge of other high level recording interfaces
- Takes up quite a bit of computer memory