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> yes but lots of big studios actually buy their software - and they do > run macs :) actually, the biggest studios have pro tools so they'll have to use mac and invest on hardware and software anyway... and a bit smaller (but still big compared to your run-in-the-mill home studios) project studios use mostly pcs & macs with logic/cubase/sonar running on them. a producer friend of mine told me that at least in the states most ad music / production house studios actually use warezed versions of the apps. so i guess it's more about the conscience of the people involved than the platform. :) but this is getting a bit sidetracked and i haven't had any first-hand experiences of this (except at my ex-schools studio which had a full pro tools system with control board/mixer and a smaller midi edit room with pc running logic :) so it's just my five cents here. > having a tracker background i found it way too complex and too slow to > make anything serious quickly, like in tracker or in fruityloops (which > has gotten quite far since i started using it back in 1.2 or so). i'm originally a ft2 user so learning logic was a bit tricky... but now that i know the basics, i got to admit it's the fastest, easiest AND most powerful of the serious audio sequencers (cubase, logic, sonar). buzz was somewhat a compromise between useability & speed (tracker interface, only a bit clumsy one) and power (modular design, audio effects) and i was happy with it then. right now i'm mostly using renoise which is awesome for me - ft2 style interface and keys meet vsti & vst effect support - but i kinda miss the "freedom" in logic: tracker way of thinking is a lot faster for me but the logic way gives much more control over the stuff you do. > actually i haven't even installed logic audio in few years.. perhaps > they have gotten their usability to some reasonable level. well, v5 was a huge improvement what with the clever automation and all that jazz. the first version i tried was 4.7 so i can't really say what it was like a few years ago. > also, as i don't have any hardware (well i do own roland r-8 mk2) so i > really don't have any need for midi sequencer either. fruity could > handle midi if needed, but then i couldn't record hardware sounds > anywhere (running fruity with few softsynths and few tens of fx usually > takes up so much cpu time that i can't afford to run sound forge on the > background and record with it) i'm working mainly with software also - i just use midi keyboard for controlling & playing softsynths and mixer+amp+nearfield monitors for listening. i do record other things to my tunes - my beloved electric bass for example - but that's just loops and any audio-capable soft like logic, buzz, ft2 or renoise can play them. so i don't need an actual midi sequencer either, just a softsynth host. one thing i like about logic is that you can just start it, slap some softsynths in and start playing... everything gets recorded just like i play it and i can do the quantization / correction stuff afterwards. with trackers you always see the "big picture" so it's easier to do whole tunes but with something like logic you get more involved in the process and get more control. that's what it is to me - two completely different worlds. in the end you can do killer tracks with just about anything but the work process behind two similar-sounding tunes might be completely different. :) --- v. ala-h�rk�nen [EMAIL PROTECTED] ................................. To find out, what address you were using, when joining MP3-Commie, hyper to http://commie.oy.com/whocommie.html
