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

[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.