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On 26 jul 2006, at 19.40, mark sottilaro wrote: > Anyway, I'm set on a dual 2.3 gighz > G5 machine. I still have my old "early adopter's" 2x2 G5. It's on its second logic board now but an excellent studio machine! > So in the Mac world what's the shiz-nit? I want > stable decent sequencing/audio recording, some good > effects... maybe some groove quantize features and the > ability to run my vsts/au from inside it. Doesn't > seem like a lot to ask... oh yeah it also has to play > nice with a MOTU 828 and a MOTU Microexpress as I > don't feel they need upgrading. I guess Logic is the one to answer up for those six demands. But if you want to run plug-ins as VST you should get the FXpansion VST to AU Adapter. I'm not totally sure if the MOTU's rock, but you can check it out quickly at http://community.sonikmatter.com/. If you know how to make recordings sound good in a traditional studio you should be able to get the same great result with Logic "in-the- box". All necessary tools come bundled as plug-ins being part of the applications. You don't need to put out any money for extra plug-ins. Even the soft-synths built into Logic are among the best on the market. Given you buy the Pro version, that is. Before I started producing with Logic (1994) I used Cubase/ATARI (plus ADAT, 24 track analog tape machines and huge mixing consoles and super expensive effect racks rented in for mixdown). I switched to Logic because of the better MIDI timing; I had been gong to electronic dance music producers/engineers to remix my stuff and was able to hear with my own ears how much better simple MIDI arrangements were grooving in Logic compared to Cubase. This was mid nineties and I took that as proof that the two guys that started this new player "Emagic" had done their homework well regarding computer code for the extremely timing critical task of music production. It now seems as Apple was serious with the take-over. Some producers like to work in Protools because it's a little faster for plain audio mixing. The general saying is that "Protools is a great recording and mixing tool but not as sharp composing tool wether Logic is a great composing tool but not as fast recording and mixing tool". I also have a lot of experience with Ableton Live, but I have never been able to get as good sound out of it as I get from Logic. If I produce music in Live I always mix it in Logic to take advance of the superior effect plug-ins. When it comes to quantize features Logic is miles ahead. Live doesn't have any groove quantize template function at all, Cubase can only pick it up from audio loops while Logic will let you create a groove quantize templet on the spot, either from an audio loop or from a MIDI sequence. That saves a lot of time and makes you "goove timing" compatible with a lot of other cool tools like pHATmatic Pro, RMX. One last word on software looping in Logic. I tried it, both with the built-in Tape Delay plug-in (has now a Freeze button) and with Augustus Loop but for some reason Logic always crashes after twenty minutes. This I tried in both Logic Pro and Logic Express. I guess its audio machine wasn't designed for that type of never-ending calculations. After all Logic was designed to be music production studio environment, not a real-time music performance tool. Greetings from Sweden Per Boysen www.boysen.se (Swedish) www.looproom.com (international) http://tinyurl.com/fauvm (podcast) http://www.myspace.com/looproom