Logic, Leopard, and ProTools

Well well…I am now well into my tenth or eleventh session with my Mac and I still love it.  I picked up Logic Audio Pro not too long ago, and I gotta tell ya – I will be keeping up my chops in Pro Tools – but for songwriting I just can’t see why I would use anything but Logic.  Plugged into the Apogee Duet it smokes ProTools MBOX 2 Pro – hands down – for sonic depth and clarity.  It’s low latency monitoring coupled with Logic’s makes it too easy to record tracks real time without any artifacts.

There were some peculiarities installing it – it wants to load up your main HD with 40gb of stuff (usefull stuff, but hey I am runing WindowsXP and MacOS X on my MacBook and have limited disk space) – so you have to make sure you have plenty of room, then just move and alias all the big sound files later.  Once that’s done, works like a charm.

I have a couple of sessions this week with collaborators (Jon Mellen and Megan Fong) which may turn into something I post here – we’ll see.

If you haven’t tried Logic, one other VERY cool thing about it is it can import GarageBand sessions – which lets me work with singer / songwriters who don’t have much gear but at least have Macs.  VERY COOL.

Oh, one final thing.  I learned this the hard way.  Don’t upgrade to Leopard unless you don’t use ProTools – and unless you like doing lots of tweaking and patching.  It still doesn’t cut the mustard.