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> Please Help. Logic Or Protools?
lantzn
post Thu 10 Oct 2002, 17:45
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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


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lantzn
post Fri 11 Oct 2002, 00:53
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Thanks for the reply. I did go and checkout Logic's site and noticed they do have a similar product to PTLE called MicroLogic av. It appears to have 16 tracks verses PTFree's 8. That digi002 with firewire connections in the demo movie looked really cool. Wish the band had held off buying their mixing board before looking at all the software first. I did notice as you mentioned that the digi software, other then the free version, is tied into their hardware. Does this mean if I purchased any other digi software it will not recognize our mixing board when we plug it into our sound in jack? If so this tends to make me feel like waiting to see if an OS X version of Logic's MicroLogic av is released soon.

http://www.emagic.de/english/products/logic/mlav.html


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