New Equipment - Starting Out, Wanting some advice on how to start out Options

[Freestyle Rapper]

Hey all watz going on , I have recently brought some new quipment to start doing some recording. I wanted a little advise. I brought a base model emac with 1.25ghz and upgraded the ram to 1g a tascam us-122 usb interface and logic express. I am getting a mic and already have a synth. I was wondering what is the best way of getting to use the program and starting out as I have heard that Logic Express comes with the Logic Pro 6 manual so isnt very helpfull and suggestions on how to go about startiing things. Keeping in mind this is the first time I have brought recording equipment and I do synth lessons using Logic Pro 6
Thanks

[editbrain]

yo. wassabi.

i think that you have made a very wise choice in the machine, software, and hardware for starting off doing demo of you work.
i would recomend getting a firewire drive that runs at 7200 rpm and uses the oscar 911 fireware. my suggestion here is to get a western digital 80gb(about 100 dollars). it has 8mb cache buffer. then get a decent firewire enclosure about 35-40 dollars that has the oscar 911 firmware, or you could just buy a drive.

check here for some help on logic:

http://www.apple.com/software/pro/logic/quicktour/

this will get you up and running. don't mind that it is for the logic pro edition. they work the exact same. pro just has more add-ons.

happy recording,

editbrain