Help Needed Over Whether To Get Cubase/logic, logic illogical? Cubase badly written? Options

[Drainland]

Hi,

I'm just about to get an iMac g4 800mhz for making music. Up until now I"ve been using an atari 1040ST and Cubase for pure sequencing and syncing vox etc from multitrack.

It's looking to me like Cubase / Logic are the main choices and although my instinct is to go with Cubase, as I've used it for years on the ST, I'm put off by a lot of the comments I've been reading about running it on OSX. Logic sounds really good, however I'm reading a lot about how difficult it can be to use. A lot of people are saying Cubase is a lot more intuitive and "fun". I think I read somewhere that Logic started life as "notator" on the ST and I could not get my head around that at all - so I opted for Cubase.

So I'm really not sure what to do. I want something that works well on the Mac platform - but something that's easy to use.

This is for a bedroom set up. Few hardware synths, sampler, bunch of outboard. I need decent audio and midi abilities.

Any help would be greatly appreciated - thanks!

[rickenbacker]

If you can wait until April for the interface, M-Audio will be releasing their new budget-priced but pro-specced Firewire device. Lots of audio I/O options, plus it has Midi, too.

I'm really hoping it'll be half decent, because at £349 for a Firewire device it's an all-in-one answer to my interfacing prayers. M-Audio have a distinctly dodgy rep for their drivers round here, but fingers crossed they've ironed those problems out and the 410 will be a winner. On paper, it's fantastic. Might be worth a look for you - www.m-audio.com, I think.