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Has anyone done that and does it work fairly seamlessly?
Are there any better alternatives I should be looking at without spending an arm and a leg? The audio interface is a Steinberg UR44 which is iPad-friendly.
As for "when am I ready?" You'll never be ready. It works in reverse, you become ready by doing it. - pmbomb
If you've got a Mac then Logic s an awful lot of DAW for its one-off cost.
Logic is very user friendly if you aren't coming from another DAW.
A lot of people don't like Logic because they are already used to how another DAW works and switching is harder than learning it for the first time.
As Big Dipper says, some people just don't like Apple.
Well, they didn't originally develop Logic, it was developed from the 80's until 2002 by Emagic.
Apple bought it in 2002 and developed it after that.
Many of the Emagic team went over and are still working there- I know this because I was part of the beta testing team until Apple bought them and when I worked for an audio manufacturer I was still chatting to several of the now-Apple employees who were part of the team at Emagic.
I think Logic is £199, but you get a lot of content, plugins and instruments for your money.
Logic updates are free- it has been years since they charged for an update, because largely the investment in Apple computer tech pays for the development.
If you are already own an Apple computer then it is IMHO a bit of a no-brainer.
'find it’s not what I need' - pretty unlikely, because there are very few things that one DAW can do that another cannot.
It is sometimes HOW that thing is achieved that is different.
For instance, auxes in Pro Tools work differently to in Logic.
In Logic when you create a sent it automatically creates a return.
In Pro Tools you have to create a send AND a return.
Playlists, Bussing, Groups all work slightly differently but you can largely achieve the same effect.
The problem for most people is once they learn one DAW it is comfortable to them.
Learning a new way in a new DAW butts up against their current knowledge and frustrates them.
This is where people get quite pissy complaining about the shortcomings of one DAW against another, but it is largely because they just don't have the knowledge in the new DAW to do it.
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The benefits of not being tied to an OS, or piece of hardware make the effort it takes to understand it easy to swallow.
A license covers me for installations on 3 different machines, and in an emergency I can still work on any computer with the unlicensed version, takes seconds to DL and install.
The large community of users, makes problem solving easy, Kenny Gioia has probably done a short video explaining exactly how to achieve whatever it is you are trying to do.
A few times I accidentally open up a project in PT, and immediately remember what made me look for an alternative, and many times I have got to a point in Logic, with something like the newish sampler update, where I hit a problem, and after searching around for a bit, find that it is a known 'bug' or unwanted feature. Such a frustrating experience.
Not being able to change the order of channel strips in the mixer seems a bit of an intentional thing to make you work the way Apple wants you to work, which seems a bit odd sometimes.
I have tried a few others, Ableton, Mixbus, Sonar, etc etc, all with their own quirks, and have found Reaper the easiest to get to grips with, and have yet to find anything I cannot do with it.
I have been doing some fairly massive projects with it, and with a bit of careful housekeeping it is running flawlessly on an older MBP.
No hesitation in making it my DAW of choice.
Since they released the rack as a VST, the standalone version hasn't received any attention.
Just updated Reaper tonight, so will give that theme a try for a change.
However I have recently purchased a Presonus interface which came with Studio 1 and I really like it so will be driving that for the foreseeable future.