New Equipment - Starting Out, Wanting some advice on how to start out Options

[Freestyle Rapper]

Hey all watz going on , I have recently brought some new quipment to start doing some recording. I wanted a little advise. I brought a base model emac with 1.25ghz and upgraded the ram to 1g a tascam us-122 usb interface and logic express. I am getting a mic and already have a synth. I was wondering what is the best way of getting to use the program and starting out as I have heard that Logic Express comes with the Logic Pro 6 manual so isnt very helpfull and suggestions on how to go about startiing things. Keeping in mind this is the first time I have brought recording equipment and I do synth lessons using Logic Pro 6
Thanks

[editbrain]

yo. wassabi.

i think that you have made a very wise choice in the machine, software, and hardware for starting off doing demo of you work.
i would recomend getting a firewire drive that runs at 7200 rpm and uses the oscar 911 fireware. my suggestion here is to get a western digital 80gb(about 100 dollars). it has 8mb cache buffer. then get a decent firewire enclosure about 35-40 dollars that has the oscar 911 firmware, or you could just buy a drive.

check here for some help on logic:

http://www.apple.com/software/pro/logic/quicktour/

this will get you up and running. don't mind that it is for the logic pro edition. they work the exact same. pro just has more add-ons.

happy recording,

editbrain

[Freestyle Rapper]

Cool thanks man but what exactly is a firewire drive and what does it do and what can i use it for thanks bro and also I cant really buy it for now beacuse I'm broke and I have to buy a mic , can I cope with out it and is it really nececery

This post has been edited by Freestyle Rapper: Thu 22 Apr 2004, 11:10

[xingu]

It's just an external hard drive that runs via the firewire connection (marked by the triangular shaped symbol with the circle in the middle) - similar to the USB connection you use to hook up your US-122, but it allows for much faster data transfer. The reason to get one is to separte the workload between your emac's CPU - which has to deal with running Logic and other processes, and the firewire drive, which would handle the reading and writing of audio files during playback and recording.

Using a second hard drive in this manner is recommended for efficiency, and will become more important as you start using more and more tracks in your songs. You should be fine just starting out using the drive that comes with your emac. I used the internal drive on my imac, which has less power than your emac (700mhz, 384RAM), with no problems for 6 months before I bought a firewire drive. It's not absolutely necessary, just highly recommended, so save for your mic and then worry about the drive later on.

And editbrain was referring to the "Oxford" 911 chipset, which is recommended for audio - I'm pretty sure most drives have that or better these days, but it's always best to make sure.

[Freestyle Rapper]

Fanx man well apreciated bro, Im picking up everything tomorow so Ill let you know what happens and see if you guys can give me any help

This post has been edited by Freestyle Rapper: Thu 22 Apr 2004, 12:56