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so I've decided to buy a software (DAW), but I don't know which. I don't know the differences between Cubase, Reaper, Logic etc
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Apr 3 2010, 01:34 AM
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Good Question! I LOVE Logic. It's just amazing. But the software interface is not that simple and it takes some time. The newest version of Garage Band is quite good and does amp modeling etc. and will let you use your own plugins like POD FARM or my personal Fav AMPLITUDE METAL which is IMHO one of the best guitar modeling plugins ever created. As I'm not a cubase guy I can't help you there but I used to use pro tools which is also very good but also complicated like logic.
So if you've outgrown Garage Band, maybe get Logic Express which is cheaper than Logic Pro but will do everything you need. It's $200 which is amazing considering all the power it has. Here is a link. http://store.apple.com/us/product/MB788Z/A?mco=MTY3ODQ5OTY Todd |
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Apr 3 2010, 12:05 PM
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To decide which is best for you, to me, I think needs an idea of what end you are aiming at - pro/pr-sumer/consumer and what your needs are (number and type of ins and outs). Generally though there are three main music apps specifically for apple: Logic, PT and DP.
Logic has the advantage of being quite tightly integrated with the Mac OS, not least because it's now owned and developed by Apple. The downside is that since Apple took it over no-one is quite sure what Apple intends to do with it it - to keep it as a pro orientated recording/mixing daw or aim for a more consumer orientated and wider market. Logic can be married up well with Apogee and that would give a good consumer-low/mid end 'prosumer' daw. PT - particularly if you go with the full ProTools software (ie PTHD) rather than the cut down version has an advantage of being an 'industry standard' in the US (much less so in Europe). The disadvantages of PTHD though are the cost - a full PTHD rig is something like 30KUSD (albeit that you don't need a lot of that to get up and running); that the HD hardware is no longer cutting edge, and; although you don't have to use PT hardware it's quite difficult not to. The LE/Lite version of PT is much cheaper and can do pretty much everything a home studio/project studio needs but again it tends to marry you to M-Audio sound cards/interfaces which whilst good are not arguably cutting edge. PTHD will give high-end 'pro-sumer' and up into professional: LE is consumer/low end 'prosumer'. PTHD can also run as a full industry standard professional video dubbing suite (as can Nuendo and Pyramix). DP - like Logic and PT can run as a full prosumer daw. DP tends to be forgotten about but is as good as the other two and price wise sits between them. AFAIK DP integrates very well with MOTU hardware which then seems to aim it squarely at the lo-mid end 'pro-sumer' market. What MOTU and DP are very good at is location/laptop recording, partly because MOTU make some very good portable audio interfaces. The main differences between professional and pr-sumer/consumer here are: stability: professional end apps need to be very stable and recoverable. So a lot of pro end is very tightly integrated to avoid hardware mis-matches and the rig will have only one function - audio. Pro-sumer/consumer hardware is usually more cost conscious and less likely to be matched to, and solely focused on, audio. number of inputs/outputs: pro end tracking/mixing upwards from 64 i/o types of ins and outs: Pro will be based on balanced analogue and clocked low jitter digital, often using specialised cables and interfaces like AES2/3 etc. Consumer/pro-sumer is more likely to be unbalanced and using consumer grade interfacing like spdif etc. and quality of the AD/DA: high quality, low jitter pro end AD/DA costs a lot of money (we use Prism and Lavry here - an 8/8 i/o Prism costs about 5000USD alone). Beyond those three there are also apps like Soundblade - a mastering DAW for Apple. Plus most of the pc orientated daws will either run under bootcamp and/or have a Mac version such as Cubase/Nuendo/Samplitude/Reaper. -------------------- Get your music professionally mastered by anl AES registered Mastering Engineer. Contact me for Audio Mastering Services and Advice and visit our website www.miromastering.com
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