Someone tell me what's so f*cking great about Logic

I think it might depend on what you want to do with it - if you're primarily into recording things from outside the computer, maybe try something else?

Logic Studio has been installing for 30 min and it estimates it has 5 hours left. 46G of disk it says it needs. This is one whale of an app cluster. Hope it's worth it.

Logic Studio has singlehanddly forced me to upgrade my laptop's HD-so annoying. On the other hand, I love the program. I'm from the dum-dum school of Live/Reason/Reaktor, and Logic Studio's "everything-in-one-workspace" really works for me. I really like it now.

How was the install? 5 hrs seems long!

Took about 3.5-4 hours in total. I suppose I should crack open the 50lb of manuals soon.

We used it as insulation between our couch and the windowsill. Those things are monstrous. I'm fairly certain that I don't know 95% of Logic, but 5% gets you pretty far. If it weren't so processor-intensive, I'd do a lot more in it.

You can customize the install so that it doesn't use up so much drive
space. I opted not to install the sound effects (I don't really do sound
for picture) or Apple Loops (I don't use 'em other than ones I've made myself).

I've used Logic since Version 2.5 - I am LOVING Logic 8 on the Macbook.

I just got Logic 8,

I kind of don't know where to start since I'm new to audio...

CC, I'd start by:

1.) Recording some audio, try out some of the fx, like the reverb designer and the compressors, get familiar with cutting, pasting, and editing wav forms
2.) Try out one of the soft synths and get familiar with editing midi in Logic
3.) Try out the sampler--and Ultrabeat too--fun with sticking new sounds
4.) Automation! Expand the view on each of tracks and automate your reverb or chorus or distortion!
5.) Try adding other Audio Units or plug-ins or Reason into Logic
6.) Once you have a little something together, put some stuff into the master chain, like maximizer, ad-limiter, multi-part compression, stereo spread, exciter, etc

Have fun!

Do I sell my 2x1.8GHz G5 or turn it into a Logic node?

Both, set it up as a logic node, sell it, then send work to it over the internet.

suppose you mac cunce are all excited baout logic 9

I don't know. Is there anything new that's really good in this upcoming version?

does anyone know how to record continuous audio in logic while looping midi sequences? for example, i've got several tracks all running 8 bar midi loops, audio routed out of my soundcard then back in to be recorded on an audio track, and i want to be able to record a long stream of audio while maintaining that 8 bar loop and muting midi sequences in and out as it records

i've tried comping the audio within the loop so you end up with a thousand takes that can ultimately be sewn together into one but this is way too time consuming, plus there's this annoying jolt after the initial take that puts you out of the moment

simply looping the midi sequences for an indefinite number of bars just seems stupid, i know i could do this but it's a really unintuitive compared to what i've grown used to (mpc running all the synths into a mixer and tracking a single audio stream on logic), and am i just meant to guess how long i want to record for?

is there any way to set up the midi sequences to automatically loop across the arrange screen as the time bar scrolls by for instance?

i have to sell everything before the big move and it will be a while before i get my own place where i can set up a studio again so i need to be able to do everything in the box, but at the same time i don't wanna be restricted to this piecemeal way of working with midi, plus if i'm going to work with softsynths it would be nice to be able to route them out into some pedals or whatever and back in

i remember back in the day i used to run fruityloops on the pc with audacity in the background and just record continuous loops through the soundcard into audacity while tweaking everything on fruity but not having to fuck around with the stupid arrange view whatsoever, man i miss those days