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[hahaworld]

I am so impressed with this forum. Thanks to everyone who contributes, and thanks to everyone who has helped me get over some major humps. In the Logic vs. Pro Tools debate, it really does boil down to trying both over a long period of time and settling into a workflow that accomplishes what is unique to you and your situation. This is a hard question to answer because of that. I dearly love working in LOGIC, but I would like to add a couple more minuses if I may, just so you guys don't think I love LOGIC so much that I wanna marry it:

LOGIC (and general Apple) minuses:
I've read the manual cover-to-cover several times, and I still find myself dropping in here or going to Google for answers that the manual just doesn't provide. This program isn't for the faint-of-heart, and neither is the literal logic of the documentation. Sometimes you just want someone to say, "Plug this here, click this here, and play this here," instead of lots of three-dollar technical explanations. I usually skip Apple's website altogether because I rarely find anything of value or practical help there. Apple has become such a huge company that their support system is (in my opinion) beginning to spin out of control. Case in point:

Our friend lepetitmartien has been coaching me on some Logic latency issues lately, and long-story-short, I bought a SATA internal drive to hold my samples. I went to Apple's website to find some installation instructions and downloaded the G5 PDF document for this process. I looked and looked for an hour for the power cable that the document stated was below the "B" bay to no avail. Finally, I Googled it and found a random page written by a saint who said, "The late-model G5 pre-intel Quads combined both power connectors onto one cable above the 'A' bay."

I coudn't find this tiny, important piece of information anywhere on Apple's site. Sure enough, I looked under the hood again, and there tucked flat against the top of the "A" bay was another power connector.

Okay. I'm gonna go have some cheese with all this whine I'm pouring out. See you guys and gals here in the forum!

HaHaWorld

[hanuman]

As in regard to the Logic VS PT topic. It looks quite like commertainment. A few days ago there was also a blatant spam of the EU clown of East West so I'd say. MacMusic moderate!

[lepetitmartien]

Save gdoubleyou is not working for apple/emagic…

Can you PM me the URL of the EW thread, but note the guys from any editor are welcome as long as they keep on the informative side, if it's to boast "we are the best, the most luscious, and we even save you from the plague and there's no bug inside", it's no way.

[theyesman]

Once again, thankyou for all of your replies.

I called up a few stores and they all recommended the Focusrite Saffire for my requirements. Has anyone used this? Is it any good?

Also, with the RAM situation, presumably as much as possible is the best way?