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![]() Newbie Group: Members Posts: 18 Joined: 15-Mar 03 From: London - UK Member No.: 14,405 ![]() |
Hi,
I'm just about to get an iMac g4 800mhz for making music. Up until now I"ve been using an atari 1040ST and Cubase for pure sequencing and syncing vox etc from multitrack. It's looking to me like Cubase / Logic are the main choices and although my instinct is to go with Cubase, as I've used it for years on the ST, I'm put off by a lot of the comments I've been reading about running it on OSX. Logic sounds really good, however I'm reading a lot about how difficult it can be to use. A lot of people are saying Cubase is a lot more intuitive and "fun". I think I read somewhere that Logic started life as "notator" on the ST and I could not get my head around that at all - so I opted for Cubase. So I'm really not sure what to do. I want something that works well on the Mac platform - but something that's easy to use. This is for a bedroom set up. Few hardware synths, sampler, bunch of outboard. I need decent audio and midi abilities. Any help would be greatly appreciated - thanks! |
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![]() Senior Member ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 235 Joined: 25-Jul 02 From: Strongsville - US Member No.: 6,217 ![]() |
I have an iMac G4 700 and run Logic Audio (bought the Big Box) under 10.2.4 with no problems at all. My main reason for choosing it was the price versus Cubase SX - or even SL (still half the price). However, I primarily do relatively simple audio work at home (generally no more than 12 tracks) and haven't even dug into the MIDI capabilities of Logic yet (which, from what I've read are where the true power of the application are). I do most of my MIDI work in Reason and just export it to Logic.
I can say that the audio side of Logic is simple enough, as this is my first DAW. Not sure of your exact needs, but at the moment, I didn't need the extra features in Logic Gold or Platinum, especially when considering the price. To weigh your options, check out the feature comparison chart of the three versions of Logic here. But be cautious - while the basic capabilities should be accurate, I'm pretty sure this chart is for the 3 versions of Logic 6 (because there's features listed for Audio and Gold that don't exist yet) and Platinum is the only version of 6 that has been released so far. Aside from seeing a lot of heartache on the cubase.net Mac forum over the current OSX releases, there have been a number of people that really dig it and don't have that many problems. It's a tough decision, because both programs essentially do the same thing. In the long haul, another plus for Logic is Apple's purchase of emagic - so you can be assured that the program is going to work well with the OS (and it does). And I don't know how simple the atari setup is, but Logic does come with a good help function (which has the entire manual plus some), which I tend to reference for specific stuff as I go along and get deeper into the program. And then there's these great forums with tons of experienced people who can answer your questions. Which brings up another point - do a search of this and other forums around the newbie threads and you should get tons more insight/answers/arguments/questions/what have you. Good luck! |
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