Please Help. Logic Or Protools? Options

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Do you mean I will need a piece of hardware between the computer and mixer or will Digital Performer solve this issue?

Does your G4 "sawtooth" has a real audio input (you wrote "We used the Mac's little microphone to get the sound in")? Is it the jack 3.5mm input?... If not, you'll obviously need some kind of audio interface, and as your mixer only has 2 aux sends, a stereo interface will do (have a look to the M-Box for a use with Pro Tools LE in 24/32 tracks.

Bye.

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Hey are are you guys getting those quotes to work? I tried that quote button a number of ways but no go.

Just click on the button "quote", in the top right corner of the message you want to quote.

For multiple quotes, just click on the "quote" button (only visible in edit mode), then cut/paste the text in the "quoted message" field, right at the bottom of the main edit field. Then click on the "Close Current Tag" red cross button. Seems complicated, but it's only tags as in html, after all.

Just have a try ;-)

Bye.

[JustEloy]

The first thing you should do in my opinion is look at what you really want to do....

Because the beautifull thing about harddisk recording nowadays is that you can edit the separate channels as much as you'd like. This would not be very handy if every instrument was recorded on one channel, because you'd probably wouldn't want to use the same EQ settings on all the instruments....

So that (almost) leaves 2 simple ways of working:

Do you want to have everybody play at the same time while recording????
In this case you'll want to have a Audio interface that has multiple inputs, one for the bass, one for the singer etc. etc. (maybe even multiple mics for the drummer??)

The other way is to start recording for example the drums, then you have one audio track containing the drums. After that you play the drums (over headphones...) while recording the bass. Then you have another track containing the bass..... You just keep following this process until you have recorded all the individual instruments, now you can apply different EQ setting, different Plug-ins (reverb....) to all the individual audio tracks (with individual audio tracks i refer to the individual instruments..)
In this case you can use a simple audio interface, 2 in 2 out.....

Now you have total control over you mix....!

Just for clearing things out, a computer works with digital information (10011100011100, just to make it easy...). When you play a instrument it will make an analog sound (except for off course some digital synthesizers....).
This analog sound has to be coverted to digital information (this is also where the bits and the kilohertzes of a audio interface come in). The device that does the conversion from analog to digital (and reversed) is the audio interface..... After it has been digitized the computer can work with it, so programs like Digital Performer, Pro Tools, Logic, Cubase etc.

I hope i helped you out on some points....


If you need some more info or somethings are unclear, just let me know, i'll be happy to help you out....

Greetings Eloy.