Logic Express, Has anyone tried out this new software Options

[TKNO1]

Has anyone got their hands on Logic Express since the announcment at Namm? Would like to know how it works on a PowerBook. Thanks

[torsion]

Go to http://www.logicuser.net/phpapps/phpBB2/index.php for a lot of helpful support from Logic users. I'm a new Logic Express user and have found this resource very useful.

Here's a summary of some of my posts there:

I can highly recommend "Apple Pro Training Series: Logic 6" by Martin Sitter & Robert Brock. As a new Logic user I would not have been able to survive without this book. The writing style is easy to understand and the information is very well organised. Although each chapter builds on knowledge gained previously in the book, passages can be read in random order if guidance on a given topic is needed. As a general reference source this book is very good.

I think one or two of the other books available are now quite old and would probably be of more benefit to people using older versions of the software. Although the above book was also written before the latest incarnations of the software ('Express' and 'Pro') were released, they are a lot newer than some of the others, and my copy of Logic Express doesn't appear to differ much from what they are describing in Apple Pro Training book.

Some tutorial files can be found here: http://www.emagicusa.com/supportfiles and I believe the one referred to in the manuals is on the Xtreme Digital Samples CD included in the Logic Express package. I haven't tried any of them, as they all appear to be for previous versions of Logic.

The Emagic Infoweb at http://atlas.emagic.de/emagic_infoweb_e/index.html , which the company likes to herald as a definitive online resource, is somewhat less than comprehensive in my opinion. There is also a lack of resources anywhere else on the web, with the exception of this site and the one mentioned above.

As an Express user, I find the way the missing "Pro" modules are constantly shoved in our faces under the plug-in menus a little insulting too. It's like they're saying "Here's what you could have if you weren't such a cheapskate!"

I still believe Logic Express is excellent software for the money, but we have been hard done by in terms of manuals and support. I've paid far less money for software in the past and been given a much better overall package.

I use Express on an ancient 400mhz G4 and thanks to the "freeze" function it is perfectly useable, if a little slow at times.

This post has been edited by torsion: Fri 2 Apr 2004, 13:14