hexfix93

i know that the amt8 on the g4 and g5 was super tight with less than a millescond of drift. how does this work on the intel macs? i'm really picky about midi, how well it records, and how tight it plays back with external gear... i have many important remix projects comming up, and i tire of the pc apps with their sloppy midi...

with logic, i hate the whole hold down button pull down menu system, there is no scroll or click through presets like on cubase which saves tons of time... and on logic, that is a major no no for me...

Ok i'm done with my current projects... What happened this time. i battled with poor midi timing, poor midi recording, and finally got it sorta usable, just to find that its still not so great with cubase sx 2.2.. Working on todd's project on his dual cpu machine we edited every bass note, and ever drum track slicing up like 20 to 40 thousand notes make that many events. the system slows to a crawl, the detect silence is a joke, the delete over laps option is buggy and kills events over 600 or something, if you try to bounce down multple tracks at once, it takes a million years, the interface becomes sluggish and un responsive, there is no iterative quantising for audio so you have to manually make a midi track and insert a midi note at every slice to create a custom groove track, then you can quantise that midi track iteratively before you make the groove, then you can quantise the audio to that custom groove track. but it made what should of taken about two weeks of editing is taking almost 4 months thanks to good ol steinberg, their bugs, slow interface and lack of features... So what i want to know. is what other programs have tight midi, iterative quantising for audio, and a good fast interface ? The only ones i can think to try is Pro tools, Samplitude(lacking many features), Digital Performer. Logic has the crappiest interface of all so i'm avoiding it like the plague... Cubase has the best, but read above... I want to know about pro tools, and digital performer. I hated the interface on cakewalk as well. stupid... The biggest problem of all is that i am in love with the algorithmix which is direct x and vst only.....

how does it stack up, did they add anyting that made the audio engine sound any better?

So what multichannel samplers and drum sample playback vsts work as a multi channel vst in logic 5.5.1? if i can get this to work, i will stay pc and 551..

is there a way to export omf files from this version of logic? i'd like to do all my midi and recording in logic 5, but then export to nuendo to do final mixing andtrack freezing.. i prefer nudeno for that, plus all the vsts that i cannot get on the mac. so i'd love if i could do basic tracking and midi recoprding and song writting on logic and then expot it to a file nudeno could load, braodcast wavs or whatever..

so you cannot use multitimberal instruments on this version of logic?

what key commands? they cripple key commands in express?

i think 1000 is a bit steep for pro, what do i not get with express. and am i crippled by using express in a way that i would regret. i dont care for soft synths...... and i prefer kontakt 2 to everything...

yeah, i figured as much, but what sucks is the minimac wotn take my pci card that i really need for my intput output. unless there is some super low latency fire wire options that will give me adat, and sdif and i mixer liek the rme has...

i'd still like to know if a g4 or single processor g5 can handle what i want out of logic..

I have been using sx since it came out, and i was from the atari st with cubase before that. cubase on the atari was tight. cubase on the pc is a joke, it never records what i play into it correctly.. many different controllers, midi interfaces, sound cards, pcs, still it never records what i paly in correctly and it looses all the soul in my performances. i'm an outboard guy, i'm into vintage synths and outboard midi. i bought an amt8 already... i want super tight midi that records what i play exactly... i tested a mac out, and yeah it works. problem is, i don't know where to start with macs... i have a 2.4 ghz pc now. and an rme hdsp9652 sound card that i need for my ksp8 adat connection, and eventide spdif... the ksp8 is amy adc.. so i need adat and a good digital mixer that the rme card has, cannot loose the rme card.. new macs are pcix... not compat with my card... so that leaves me with power macs... older ones.. my current projects are like 6 to 10 neodyniums, 6 to 10 sonalksis eqs, up to 5 ohmboys plugs, kontakt 2 firing off sample libs, and battery doing drums... sometimes the waves l2... so. how fast of a mac do i need to get like up to 80 tracks of audio with that many plugs going? g5 2.0 ghz? or do i need a dual? i have no clue where to start.. i would of prefered the mac mini or hte imac, but no pci card support, and i need my rme hds9652... i need tight midi. and cubase has studdered my music career for the last 7 years. i'm sick of it.. please help....