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On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 9:23 PM, mark francombe <mark@markfrancombe.com> wrote: > Logic (awaiting Perīs recomendation already) Ok, since you brought it up ;-) But get the Pro Studio 8 version so you won't be disappointed later on. ReWire syncing Reason channels directly into Logics mixer is now very simple with L8. This is a great combo that many use. Logic is easy to get around for "composer type" of guys that want to start the music at the left margin and write their way to the right margin and being able to see it all as a time line on the screen and maybe cycle a certain part to work on the musical details in a microscope way. I think Logic Pro 8 Studio is the most all round package among these three because you don't need anything more. It comes with the biggest sample/canned loops library too (if you are so inclined). Oh, one thing that really hooks me to Logic is its global micro tonal tuning: as long as you use the built-in instruments you can chose any micro tonal tuning and key and all those wonderful instruments will instantly retune to play back your piece in the new tuning. I can spend hours just playing back synth music I have made just for the fun of exploring how it sounds in Juste Tuning, 12-tone Pythagorean, in Bulgarian Bag Pipe Tuning or in Chinese Lu scale by Huai Nan Zi, Han era (P. Amiot 1780, Kurt Reinhart). There's also different kinds of Hermode Tuning available, which is what a choire or string quartet may use since each note is performed with a slightly different intonation by each player depending on what note the other players are playing at that particular moment in time - the goal being to create as full sounding chords as possible in every part of the piece (which is not possible with tempered or fixed tuning). For those looking for a great arpeggiator Logic is not good alternative. Better ARP in both Live and Pro Tools (the Transfuser add-on plug-in) > ProTools (have used a bit before - industry standard, so I would learn a > useful package) Pro Tools 8 is coming out soon, december/january. Digidesign is now pulling the same trick Apple did with Logic 8; offering lots of, formerly expensive add-on, effect and virtual instrument plug-ins bundled with the application. So if you're going for PT now, make sure you can upgrade to PT 8 on the ticket. With ProTools, you need to get an audio interface that is passed by Digidesign. The M-Audio boxes work great with ProTools but users have had problems with them in other applications (especially the less expensive interfaces). Pro Tools and Logic are very similar. In the past I have found Logic easier to use but this may change when PT 8 comes out, as the rumors have it. > Live (Is this a "proper" multi-track recorder - mainly drawn to it cos it > seems very er... cool, and possible to do some ker-razy stuff too) I agree. Live is fun and creative. It draws on the MPC concept, where you cycle looped chunks of audiio or MIDI "in pattern mode" and then chain it together into the final composition "in song mode". Many users are very happy with the combo Reason ReWired into Live. But although I have used Live a lot I have never been able to make a mix sound as good in Live as is possible in Logic (or ProTools if you invest in additional plug-ins). All the best Per (staying in this friday night listening to "Doomed: Dark music for tortured souls [SomaFM]")