f*ck me!! i do not beleive it! Buggo! lol
How the hell are you man? long tiiiiiiime (only ten dollah!)
dude, you have a mac, so get logic pro!... It does full rewire-2, you'll love the ultrabeat drums etc, and no stupid ferkin dongle.
also logic has the fantastic LOOP feature no other sequencer has which for me is THE super function for pattern-based music creation at ultra fast speed...
high-light a midi part/region, hit LOOP and it just copies across the arrangement until it meets a new midi part... so you take the basic midi pattern, say a drum pattern part/region, hit LOOP and it automaticaly ghost-copies itself across until the song END position. Then copy the original midi part/region and paste it at the bar position you want the beat to change... go into the copied part, alter it, hit LOOP and that new part/region then copies itself until the next region appears, repeat and rinse!
no cumbersome actual copying and pasting etc, just hit LOOP and it does it automaticaly.
Logic also has all the folder stuff cubase has and it's easy to pack & unpack folders making complexed arrangements SO easy to keep in order
the take/comp feature when recording is superb as well, and the included synths, drums, sampler, and the fx are so good... as is the included content (synth patches, drums, loops, samples, Final-Cut-Studio sound-fx etc) .. all excellent, I tell you seriously the included free content is awesomely good and the EXS sampler reads/loads akai sample disks afaik and ALL sampler sound companies usualy release their sample libraries in EXS format as well as stuff like Kontakt
for drum editing you can use the hyperedit screen which allows you to even place controller lanes in between drum lanes adjacently if required. - each drum note/lane has dedicated length, velocity, quantise, etc... very good, but... The ULTRABEAT drum synth also includes a traditional TRXOX style grid complete with flashing led llights and patterns created in Ultrabeat can be dumped to MIDI tracks as patterns
Ultrabeat plays loaded samples or synthesises drums using analog synth modelling, or it does both (sample/synth) and has a grid matrix for sequencing as well as the TRxox style sequencer - it can be used with it's internal sequencer, sync'd to host OR triggered from midi patterns
actualy I'm about to get a mac pro myself (the funds arrived today in fact ) with Logic Pro of course... I've been trying it on a G5 and man, f*ck me it is deep! (and runs great on the G5)... Definately the included FX are better than cubase fx imo, and you'll LOVE the new Delay Designer (stereo or 5:1 surround delay sequencer), the vocoder, and more
another hit point with logic is when you select a track in arrange, the right-hand channel strip display shows not only the selected track's mixer-channel, but also next to it, the assigned OUTPUT channel strip... either master or Bus.. so you can work on both mixer strips at the same time.. brilliant! Allows you to do stuff like Bus sidechaining without even entering the mixer page
also of course it has all the automated 'apple loop' biz built in so you can create 'apple loops' out of your own loops and then they auto-fit to the song tempo and/or pitch and will audition on the fly in tempo/pitch, so as time goes by you will be building a library of auto-play loops you can re-use anytime with ease
Anyways, i mean... mac & logic? they just go together, same company, Logic and OS s/w updates all happen from within the mac s/w update section of the OS... it's a winner combi
Good to hear from you man.
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