After a few weeks of playing around with Logic Studio I'm floored. Where the hell have I been while the "home studio" evolved in such a dramatic way? Last time I did any substantial research into digital recording software was a few years back and oh.. my... God.., if you haven't had a look at what can be done today you're going to be in for a treat.
The biggest difference is that the DAW (digital audio workstation) isn't designed for you to use just to track your songs; it's meant to be the place in which you work on ideas, compose, tweak and experiment. It's incredibly easy to lay down a beat, add a chord progression and then just jam.
On top of that, using Logic Studio is a bit like owning every instrument, every amp, every stomp box, a mixing board with infinite channel strips, every effect, every drum set and every synthesizer that you could ever want. The puritan might scoff at me saying so, but the quality and sheer volume of finely modeled equipment is stunning. I have always hated recording a guitar dry with the intent of post processing the sound, but now I am now a convert. I've also never had so much control over my guitar tone. After many, many hours of playing around with this thing I've got what I need to use sorted out, and there are entire universes of toys that are still wrapped and waiting to be played with.
All this for less than I paid for my Fostex back in the 1980s. Logic Studio 9 rocks.
The biggest difference is that the DAW (digital audio workstation) isn't designed for you to use just to track your songs; it's meant to be the place in which you work on ideas, compose, tweak and experiment. It's incredibly easy to lay down a beat, add a chord progression and then just jam.
On top of that, using Logic Studio is a bit like owning every instrument, every amp, every stomp box, a mixing board with infinite channel strips, every effect, every drum set and every synthesizer that you could ever want. The puritan might scoff at me saying so, but the quality and sheer volume of finely modeled equipment is stunning. I have always hated recording a guitar dry with the intent of post processing the sound, but now I am now a convert. I've also never had so much control over my guitar tone. After many, many hours of playing around with this thing I've got what I need to use sorted out, and there are entire universes of toys that are still wrapped and waiting to be played with.
All this for less than I paid for my Fostex back in the 1980s. Logic Studio 9 rocks.
