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professorpious
post Sat 14 Aug 2004, 06:43
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I Just got my powerbook, yay! its the 1.33ghz 512mb ram, with the fast harddrive (7800rpm i think). I've got the Edirol fa-101 for my audio interface.
Right now I'm using reason 2.5, I'm lookng to add audio to my tracks. Should I go with Cubase or Logic for this? they both support rewire as far as I know. I have no experience with either program so will be learning which ever I choose. Seems like most people talk about using logic in this forum and a friend said "logic hands down". Just wondering what some others think before I go dropping a grand.
thanks in advance,
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post Sun 5 Sep 2004, 20:50
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I recorded audio on my G3 ibook before getting an external fw drive. I didn't go over 16 tracks (often just 8) in protools LE on OS9, used few plugins and parcimoniously. The problems I encountered were: learning how to get things done, my slowness, getting lost due to not giving names to all the bits and bats, and particularly accepting how far I was from being a musical genius. If there were any problems due to using the internal drive, I didn't notice.

Alot of people on here try for technical perfection, but I don't think it's worth getting worried about that too much until I'm satisfied with some of the music I try to compose. I did listen to advice here when I started out and knew, when I got a usb interface, that the single FW would be available for the external drive. I discovered MacMusic just in time.

When you start doing good stuff, then you should get an external drive. If you want to use 32 tracks and bulldoze with plugins right from the start, you'll probably need it very soon and will have to either change the PB or get a usb sound interface. But if you don't demand too much of your set-up while you're learning and you're as slow as me, the problem shouldn't worry you for quite a while.


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- professorpious   New To Mac What's Better?   Sat 14 Aug 2004, 06:43
- - Presto   Try using the search button. If you're not ver...   Sat 14 Aug 2004, 14:31
- - professorpious   Thanks, for some reason I didn't see that butt...   Sun 15 Aug 2004, 04:28
- - gdoubleyou   I don't suggest SX for single cpu machines. Fr...   Tue 17 Aug 2004, 19:03
- - jklimeck   Used DP for years, DP4 is the first incarnation of...   Tue 17 Aug 2004, 22:13
- - pdgood   Here's the opinions I have gathered from years...   Tue 17 Aug 2004, 23:39
- - Riverdog   I agree with the your opinion of Opcode... I was a...   Sun 29 Aug 2004, 21:54
- - swilder   Just my 2 cents. I do use Cubase on both mac anc ...   Mon 30 Aug 2004, 07:28
- - guitar   Cubase SX is an excellent program but the plugins ...   Mon 30 Aug 2004, 08:00
- - arnolfo   Try the Ableton Live 4 demo. You might like it.   Tue 31 Aug 2004, 17:32
- - swilder   Stress test update. Started the stress test today...   Wed 1 Sep 2004, 01:23
- - swilder   I'll add more tracks tomorrow to try to max ou...   Wed 1 Sep 2004, 01:42
- - gdoubleyou   1GHz 12inch Powerbook Logic Audio 32 audio tracks...   Fri 3 Sep 2004, 20:31
- - swilder   gdoubleyou, Are you using an external drive or th...   Sat 4 Sep 2004, 03:28
- - professorpious   hey thanks for all the opinions much appreciated. ...   Sun 5 Sep 2004, 06:16
- - swilder   Having the audio card and hard drive on the same f...   Mon 6 Sep 2004, 05:10
- - gdoubleyou   QUOTE (swilder @ Sep 3 2004, 18:28)gdoubleyou...   Wed 8 Sep 2004, 18:17
- - landlox   I have read this thread with interest - I am a MID...   Fri 17 Sep 2004, 02:49
- - xingu   Landlox - no need to post the same question(s) twi...   Fri 17 Sep 2004, 05:17
- - landlox   My apologies again for the repetition. I'm BRA...   Fri 17 Sep 2004, 21:50


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