How Good Are Logic's Virtual Instruments? Options

[Scottspain]

I've been told by many that they are better than Pro Tools, but are they good compared to Reason and such?

[pjhk]

I've been told by many that they are better than Pro Tools, but are they good compared to Reason and such?

It's up to the choices and algorithms the developers have made.. I really like Reason for its integration and the beats/rex tools. Fast, intuitive, great fun, no complaints soundwise. However, the sound character of the synths rub me the wrong way often, high-quality interpolation etc on or off. A certain anemic smallness comes around, flat and anonymous. A way around, with Reason or any other source is to layer of course.

Logic's *synths* are a step up in my opinion, there's more colour and integrity in them to my ears. Sculpture is always fun and musically very responsive. Huge range of musically relevant sounds. The old ES1 has a few 'analog' sweet spots I use.. The ES2 is cool, the drum synth/sampler ultrabeat is fantastic, but they both suffer a bit from a cluttered interface. Be prepared for some precision-mousing around there. I like the EFM fm synth because it's simple and sounds c-l-e-a-n in a very good way. So thumbs up for the synths. (I also own a moog voyager, oberheim 2-voice, virus ti, reaktor etc)

Logic comes with a lot of good content, samples and (apple) loops. While the sample library for the exs-24 varies over the categories there are many nice, full sounds. If you'll be composing with something specific in mind as ckb does you'll have to work a bit more. Otherwise layer, substitute, shift things around and then build up a library as you go.

best of luck