Re: In praise of Logic Express

["Warren Sirota" <wsirota@wsdesigns.com>]

ok, i'm not an expert - but i'd get either the largest, fastest HD
available in stock (or else get the cheapest and plan on upgrading 3rd
party) and as much memory - 2gigs is ok, but 4 would be much nicer.
get the fastest cpu that you can. spend all you have.

deals? on apples? i think their dealer agreements all prohibit
discounting. best you could do would be to find a reseller with free
shipping. but maybe i'm wrong.

i'd go for the applecare too. laptops are somewhat vulnerable. also -
i don't know if this is true for just *any* apple user, but i've
gotten top-notch tech sppt from apple via my applecare contract. most
other companies, i laugh at tech sppt as a total waste of time and
exercise in frustration.

sorry i couldn't be more help. i'm sure there are others here much
more knowledgeable.

On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 10:40 AM, L.A. Angulo <labaloops@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Thanx Warren,i am doing research because i have
> finally decided to buy a macbook pro and give lapos a
> try and i am not sure if i should buy it with
> L.express or pro,also can you give me a list of
> essentials before i order it to have a killer stable
> machine for live and studio purposes?i just want to
> make sure i dont miss anything!
> p.s. if you would also be so kind to recomend a place
> that has good deals on macs in the states that would
> be great(are you form california?) my parents will be
> most likely bringing it from there.
> cheers
> Luis
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> --- Warren Sirota <wsirota@wsdesigns.com> wrote:
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>> I can't really do a direct comparison, because I
>> haven't used Sonar in
>> a couple of years. One of the reasons I went for
>> Logic is that I
>> wanted a fairly *complete* toolkit so that I don't
>> have to always hunt
>> for and evaluate different drum kits, synthesizers,
>> fx, etc. The
>> version of Sonar that I got had nothing in the way
>> of instruments and
>> very little in the way of fx. have no idea what
>> they're offering now.
>> Plus, I don't remember whether Sonar supported my
>> 24-bit interface or
>> not, but i would have been afraid to up the cpu load
>> to that on that
>> computer.
>>
>> So that's a lot of words to tell you that i just
>> don't know. What I
>> can tell you is that Logic (even Express) comes with
>> a lot of
>> good-sounding effects chains for guitar and synth
>> patches complete
>> with tempo-synced delays and other stuff that not
>> only give you plenty
>> of cool sounds to explore, but also are classified
>> in a really
>> intelligent manner
>> (for the record, I believe that this area of
>> "snippet/effect
>> classification" is a very underrated and
>> ill-understood area, which
>> will inevitably become increasingly important as the
>> creation of music
>> continues it's move towards editing/arrangement and
>> away from straight
>> tracking. Apple really *gets it*, as anyone who has
>> hunted for loops
>> with the garageband interface knows, and that
>> interface was copped
>> from Logic, which applies it to fx and instruments
>> as well as loops.
>> Everything is "tagged" so you can do
>> multidimensional searches. This
>> is in contrast to Sonar, Live or any other program
>> I've seen, in which
>> you are left without help to organize your resources
>> other than trying
>> to stick things in folders that have to constantly
>> be reorganized or
>> rethought-out and even documented in external text
>> files. ugly,
>> horrible, and bound to get worse. but i'm an IT guy,
>> so things like
>> this tend to offend me more than most).
>>
>> BTW - Now I've received Logic Studio but I can't
>> install it till i get
>> a new hard drive for my laptop! (well, I was
>> constrained by that
>> anyway, since i run a 30 gig boot camp partition
>> that i could otw use
>> for music, and I can get a faster drive than the
>> built-in one). Logic
>> Studio == 41GB install! Wow. I guess there must be a
>> LOT of samples in
>> that package.
>>
>> On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 8:05 PM, L.A. Angulo
>> <labaloops@yahoo.com> wrote:
>> > Hey Warren,
>> > what about Logic soundwise compared to Sonar,is it
>> > true that the sound quality is better?
>> >
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