Please Help. Logic Or Protools? Options

[lantzn]

Hello All,
My son and some friends have started a small garage band. They recently bought some really nice speakers and a mixing board with something like 8-10 channels/tracks. This things has just about every imaginable connections I ever seen on it. I'm a computer graphics person by profession and really get into cool software, I'm now studying Electric Image Universe 3D app. They came to me and asked if I could setup a MP3 jukebox for them after seeing my tower running iTunes. I sold them my iMac 400 DVSE, we dropped in a 160GB drive and a Gig of memory and have currently loaded all our CD collections onto it. They now plug the iMac into the mixing board and the songs really rock over the new speakers! I thought I was at a concert.

Now they want me to be their "sound man" and find some software that we can use to send some tracks into my G4 tower from the mixing board and eventually burn to CD. Last night I loaded the free Pro Tools LE and OMS package. We played around with some simple voice tracks since we didn't have it near the band's equipment. We used the Mac's little microphone to get the sound in. They got pretty excited about it. Of course I had to bootup into OS9 to run ProTools. I'm currently running 10.2.1, have a Radeon 8500AGP, Radeon 7000PCI, 60 and 80GB drives and 2GB of ram in this G4 400 sawtooth tower.

My question, what software for OS X should I be looking at when a OS X version is released? The LE, light, beginners edition is probably all we would ever need. Pro Tools LE looked like it had plenty of features along with the 8 track limit. What about a LE version of Logic? Does one exist. I know we're just now seeing OS X music software coming our way. I can mess around with Pro Tools LE in OS 9 until something is available but I'm not sure if I want to learn it to much if something else would be better. I'm a pretty fast learner and can jump around different software apps without problems.

Thanks

[Synthetic]

well Logic is the one of the few to release OSX version and there is no LE per say but there are different levels... silver, gold, platinum with silver being the cheapest of course and less features. If you go to www.emagic.de and look it up... you will see the features compared to the other versions. Its not a bad deal for a couple hundred US dollars. It may serve your needs... the OSX version is there but... I would wait to migrate to it until they get the plugins and few other features sorted out. I would just stay in 9 for music recording at this point.

ProTools LE is nice and will be your best choice since it doesn't seem like you will be doing much midi work. PT LE is only offered with the purchase of Digidesign hardware though which it is designed to work with. So if you were to get an Mbox or Digi001 or Digi002... then you would get app. PT is my favorite for quick and easy audio editing I have both PT and Logic and tend to use PT mostly when I want to record and edit something fast with audio but I use Logic if I am going to be working with midi.