I can confirm that logic still has the environment when you want it, you just don't NEED to use it for a lot of things now... and that any iMac is more than good enough for recording and audio production. You can run a lot of plugins with a core 2 duo mac.

iMac running Logic Express 8 here.
Right now I use an ozonic, but that's currently for sale as I want an apogee duet or Presonus firebox (haven't decided which yet).

sustain wrote:fancy Mac?

JSRockit wrote:Are you going to be djing that often?

I'm certainly hoping so. I suppose if I get to the point of doing it enough to really get fed up with using an aggregate device, I'd just buy a dedicated DJ controller/interface, while still using the duet for my usual gigs and studio work.

hrm. Still doesn't quite have the form factor of the duet... http://www.apogeedigital.com/images/duet_gallery5_lg.jpg I think it's more or less decided then unless I'm missing something. The duet can fit in my front pocket even. I don't really need all those analog line inputs like on the ultralite,...

Basically I really like the idea of the apogee duet... The only problem is that it doesn't have a separate output channel for headphones and main outs... Which sucks for DJing (I know I can create a combined device on OSX and use the computer's headphone jack, but that's a bit of a workaround...) Ar...

Mitch - try to stay on topic, eh? Worrell was pretty specific in his question about clavinets - what have Rhodes got to do with anything? Umm... He asked why, in light of the rhodes' revival, the clavinet doesn't have something similar? I replied with my opinion, which is that the rhodes was revive...

Its actually based on the heavily chopped up BSD kernal. It has about as much in common with unix as windows XP has with VMS and RMX (on which it is "based"). Their claim is more marketing then computing. Anyway.. yeah, as i said, it's based on Unix. Actually, leopard is fully unix compliant to the...

I think a lot more people like the sound of a rhodes rather than the sound of a clav...

I know I personally can't stand the idea of clavinets in modern music.

logic is great. Also you might want to look at Digital Performer... That DAW doesn't seem to get that much love for some reason, but I think it looks great. Also mac only BTW. I've had zero problems with logic or my iMac, which if far more than I can say of the multitude of windows machines I've use...

Carbon, have you tried vember audio's surge yet? I've compared it extensively to massive and it wins hands down in every category IMO... If you like massive you'll love surge I think.

Ok, been using hardware for many years now...and used to use stuff like Fruity Loops and Reason when I did use software. I have used plug-in synths and samplers... however, I have never used a plug-in drum machine which has its own sequencer. I was wondering how those work. I mean, when you use a d...

17" Macbook pro with C2D and 2 gig ram: $2799 Receptor pro with a turion: $2899 no brainer to me h**l, get a refurbed 15.4" macbook pro with C2D and 2 gigs of ram for $1800... No brainer for me as well, I've never ran into any problems with my iMac, I'd be more than willing to trust a mac onstage.....

there are a couple different things you can do here, sometimes depending on the drum plugin itself. in all the plugins I've found for drums, they respond to the host's sequencer... They is, they start and stop when the host does and lock to the hosts tempo. where the differences come in is how you c...

you can probably score a used nord lead 2 in your price range, and that's what I'd recommend... As long as a lack of internal effects isn't a problem.