Logic Express 7 And Midi, Sounds? Options

[mortalengines]

Sorry, I didn't realize the audiophile was RCA only - The 410 would probably be fine - the USB models....well, I don't know - you really want to check at their website (m-audio's) & see if their USB units offer "latency free monitoring" as well as the aforementioned 1/4" inputs-
Have you tried 1/4" to RCA adapters for recording your synth? You might get pretty good results for what amounts to a 5 dollar investment from Radio Shack. If you hate it, what the hell, you blew 5 bucks.

[MoonDark]

I don't quite recommend you a Firewire 410 , the drivers show only problems to me and many other ppl ( I had to sell mine )

Just look here

http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/13634

[hushhurt]

thanks for the help - i bought some quater to rca cables and I am going to see how that works. All I want to do is lay down some drum tracks; this has been an trying experience. I thought when I bought the software and keyboard - it would be all of a matter of me hooking it up and banging out beats with the keyboard. It seems like there are little to no softsythns that come with logic, and the garageband instuments sound a little weak to me. Should I just go back to the drumset and leave the keyboard alone?

[mortalengines]

Well, I would guess that your Karma probably sounds pretty big... any kind of hardware synth generally sounds really good right off the bat - Don't be put off by the facory bundle synths. I generally have to work pretty hard to get a good sound sometimes with Reason even. It takes alot of combining effects (especially compression) to get them going. Go to samplepoolz.com & I think they have links for virtual synths that work pretty well for free. I hear good things about Crystal as well (crystal.com or krystal.com I'm not sure, but its easy enough to find) & the downloads are generally small. Native Instruments' Reaktor is not cheap, but it is an AU bundle of synths, drum machines, tone generators, samplers, etc that sound incredible right out of the box (a bit of a CPU hog though) and is worth every penny.