Help Needed Over Whether To Get Cubase/logic, logic illogical? Cubase badly written? Options

[Drainland]

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!

[xingu]

One of the admins over at the Tascam forum just posted this in reply to somebody asking about partitioning:

"Partitioning a drive is not the same as using a separate device. While partitioning a drive is a great way to keep the styluses (the lasers that read the multiple platters in your hard drive) in a more confined area and thus faster at accessing data in that partition...reading off of two partitions at once slows down the entire drive, as the styluses can not be in two places at the same time.
Even though you may have the audio set to record and playback from a different partition than the applications, the apps still have to communicate with the rest of the system, meaning that you are essentailly reading and writing from both partitions as once............think about it like having the needle on a record player reading track 11 and track 1 at the same time, and doing it so that you can't hear any gaps in playback. It would have to be really fast eh? That's why God invented buffers...

A separate drive is one way to increase your performance..."

Take it for what it's worth... Like I said, I used the internal drive on my iMac (albeit in a limited capacity) for about 6 months without any problems. My advice would be to go with what you have and save up to get an external drive as soon as you can.