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Re: Logic Pro X

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Post by mitchty »

widdershins wrote: post #187
mitchty wrote: post #177

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I don't even know what an Arpeggiator is, sounds cool though.

If you play a chord into an arpeggiator, it... well, it arpeggiates it. In other words, it plays each note of the chord individually in a particular rhythm (e.g. 16th notes) in a particular pattern (e.g. up/down, up, random). Very, very common in electronic music.

Cool I had no idea, I'm about as musical as... umm, yeah i've got no analogue.

Does it get scaled in specific patterns or is random ok?

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Post by splicer »

adamnemecek wrote: post #210
splicer wrote: post #209

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It's by Emagic, not Apple. It used to be available as a separate product: http://www.zzounds.com/item--EMAESC

It's a part of an Apple product. Apple does not make their laptops either yet you consider elements of the computer design to be from Apple.

I was referring to the fact that ES2 was designed before Apple acquired Emagic.

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Post by ascendant2323 »

retrogradeorbit wrote: post #51
marknutter wrote: post #2

Can any musicians in the know about music software comment on how this compares to say, Ableton Live?

I've used a lot of DAWs. Namely Logic, Sonar, Nuendo, Protools, Reason, Ableton, FLStudio and Reaper. And my conclusion is that Reaper is by far the best. Your opinion may be different, but give it a try. It has a free trial period and the full version is very cost effective. Add in the SWS extensions and the scripting support (I'm using python) and it becomes very powerful. Put the House of White Tie skin on it, add…

As a Cubase user who generally likes Cubase, but is considering switching to Ableton for the primary purpose of using Macro controls... would Reaper be likely to meet me needs?

Specifically, I'm talking about having one "knob" or control that controls multiple parameters across multiple VSTs, with varying ranges. Can Reaper do that? The fact that Ableton can, and Cubase can't, is pretty much the only reason I'm thinking of switching.

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Post by malkomalko »

IanChiles wrote: post #107
wavesounds wrote: post #92

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I was also thinking about how cool open source albums would be! Your 'band' could now be 100 different people all spread out around the world. Then perhaps instead of an album being 'done' we'll just release v1.0.

And then if you had an idea on how to improve the music, it would just be a nice fork-edit-pull request away from improving the album. Truly collaborative music could be really cool.

This is what my partner and I are trying to do with instajams.com. We've just soft launched and are in the process of getting feedback from some friends, but the jamming portion of it is rock solid.

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Post by swift »

laumars wrote: post #100
S_A_P wrote: post #49

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Well Pro Apps are kind of an exception as you usually are trying to emulate the exact properties of very specific hardware. Amp and synthesizer simulators seem more real if you have an accurate UI analog to the real hardware.

Not exactly. Sadly this is one of those instances where a concise point isn't an accurate one. Sequencers (Logic Pro, Cubase, etc) were originally built to work along side classic studio hardware. And while more and more studios these days go all software, the sequencer paradigm has stuck because it largely works. You're also right that many soft-synths / virtual instruments are there to emulate real hardware, but th…

I'm not sure what you mean when you mention DAWs based around programming. Are you referring to things like Reaktor, Max, and PD?

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Post by coldtea »

Griever wrote: post #69
wavesounds wrote: post #57

Has anyone tried using Github to manage and share a Logic Pro project? I work on music with someone 300 miles away and I'd love to have the power of git. Right now were both using different DAWs and export audio to dropbox. This release of Logic looks great and my partner is already using Logic so if I switch over and implemented git we could ideally be working off the same files all the time with version tracking, b…

I've actually been storing my Logic projects on GitHub for a while. It works pretty well for the most part, but I do run into some issues when dealing with the size of the files. Perhaps Logic X shrinks them down in size a bit in comparison to Logic 9, but I doubt it. Here's the repo if you are interested: https://github.com/jpsullivan/LogicProjects One day I'd really like to make an open source album that people cou…

>It works pretty well for the most part, but I do run into some issues when dealing with the size of the files. Perhaps Logic X shrinks them down in size a bit in comparison to Logic 9, but I doubt it.

How would it "shrink" them? You record uncompressed audio in high resolution and bitrate. At the very best it could half them if it could use some loseless algorithm, but DAWs record and use AIFF and WAV.

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Post by coldtea »

IanChiles wrote: post #107
wavesounds wrote: post #92

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I was also thinking about how cool open source albums would be! Your 'band' could now be 100 different people all spread out around the world. Then perhaps instead of an album being 'done' we'll just release v1.0.

And then if you had an idea on how to improve the music, it would just be a nice fork-edit-pull request away from improving the album. Truly collaborative music could be really cool.

>And then if you had an idea on how to improve the music, it would just be a nice fork-edit-pull request away from improving the album. Truly collaborative music could be really cool.

Only artists don't usually like it when somebody else "improves" their music -- that's a recipy for havoc. They have what is called a "vision" for their piece, so that any improvement would have to play within that vision.

Not to mention that what's an "improvement" to one, is an abomination for another.

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Post by coldtea »

ssharp wrote: post #138
jolohaga wrote: post #121

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It seems Apple could in part address this by including iCloud support in Logic.

I'm surprised this hasn't been addressed yet, given: 1) How many professionals use Logic 2) How common it is for said professionals to pass tracks back and forth over email, im, Dropbox and other filesharing services Maybe advertising such as service gives artists an unwarranted assumption of privacy and security vs. using something like email where there is less expectation and more assumed risk.

Uploading/Downloading project files of a few GB, where a 300-400 MB can be added in just one additional session, doesn't work very well with iCloud and current BS connections.

So for a lot of people the experience would be subpar (with their 2-20MBps assymetric DSL etc). Not, Apple could only enabled for speedy connections (symmetric, fiber etc), but then tons of users would cry for being excluded.

That's not how Apple usually rolls.

I'd say than when the speeds are mature enough, in 4-5 years, there would be a version of Logic with iCloud support.

For now, they can leave it to third party providers, like Dropbox, so they get all the blame (and/or praise, for those that are content with that).

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