Logic Users..., Are you using Express or Prol? Options

[Lord Pasty]

It looks like a lot of people out there are switching to Logic.

My question is this: Which version of Logic are you guys using?

While I intend to "buy up" to Pro shortly after purchasing Express, I was wondering how good the midi is with Express. I need midi. Lots of midi.

Anyhoo. Would love to just go out and buy Logic Pro, but I think the GF will kill me.

[arvidtp]

I'm with you Pasty- just bought Logic Pro last week (1/2 price student discount) - kick @$$!

I just did a semi-live, mostly composed performance with it last night, with live MIDI control over several key parameters, on the fly looping to time the music to the "plop painting" performance that the sound was for, a number of heavy soft synths (some of them frozen ), and lots of pre-composed audio tracks with lots of effects, including the CPU hogging Pluggo "Cosmo" from Gleetchplug (that on its own would bring Pro Tools to its knees) - in realtime on my powerbook through my Mbox. No problems - the whole time not one hiccup. This is something I would NEvER have even TRIED to do with Pro Tools LE, for many reasons including stability, CPU efficiency and live/realtime flexibilty (like looping the transport on the fly and assigning MIDI controllers to track levels/pans/mutes). And this is after playing around with lOgic for less than a week!

I still don't have audio editing completely down yet, as it is very different from Pro Tools - a little more effort it seems so far, but not all bad. And MIDI is crazy. I want to do something and I just do it - no more squinting at piano rolls on left side of the screen and counting half steps up and down and waiting for PT to update to display behind my mouse etc etc - it is like - press 6 to switch to notation view - change note - back to arrange - "did I just edit that? it was so painless!" And automation edit/viewing is fabulous in the arrange window. The environment could be more "logical" - more like MaxMSP, and rewire seems a bit cumbersome. But I cant complain, as I haven't completely learned those parts of logic yet.

And i can connect it to MaxMSP with Jack!!!!!!

finally I am no longer complaining about pro tools LE screwing up on OS X and being stupid, and I am just making music again, like when I had PT free on OS 9, but MUCH BETTER!

rock on logic!

[By the way, a plop painting is a painting done by my friend Mark Milloff, made of solid, heaping oil paint that slides off when it is put on a wall, goes down the wall and plops on the ground, making a crazy paint-mess. They have actually got him quite a bit of acclaim, though they began years ago as an accident.]