Taking the Plunge!

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KineticSound

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After much love producing music in a standalone box (even making some posts on this board about how much I love it), I'm finally making the plunge to a software+interface setup for my main rig - and have some questions before I start assembling my new rig:

1. The decision go software is mainly due to a change in the direction of my project studio. Up until now, it's been all about demo & album production (some for my own projects; a lot for others), but the market for that is getting tough. I'm intending to move toward ad and voiceover production, so the software route is a must. I'm a mac user, and have been looking at Logic Express 8 as a starting point for software. I know there is a Logic forum on this BBS, but I'm more interested ensuring I have the computing power... I would plan on using a dedicated mac: 1.83GHz Intel Core2 Duo chipset, 2GB RAM, 80GB ATA HD (plus backup drives, of course), running OSX Leopard 10.5.4. I would continue producing full band production with this new rig, so it would need to be able to handle 16-24 tracks of simultaneous audio playback, plus eq, dynamics, & some effect plugins. How close am I to the appropriate processing power?

2. I am clueless when it comes to audio interfacing. Something with a tactile control surface is a must for me, and I've been looking at the TASCAM FW-1082 http://www.tascam.com/products/fw-1082.html as an option. Does anyone here have experience with this control surface? Anyone used it with Logic? Tascam states that the 1082 marries well with Logic Pro; I'm assuming Logic Express would interface the same way?

Your input is greatly appreciated!!!
 
How many inputs would you need at once? I would say go with something to do with pro tools because it is the audio standard. But the next thing down from it is Nuendo. and you can interface almost anything with nuendo. Just have to decide how many ins at once are u gonna need and then go from there.
 
 
Pipeline,
I read some of your blog - funny stuff.

I think to your point, I looked at a bunch of different software (including ProTools, Sonar, Cubase, etc.) and it just seemed that Logic / Logic Express was a pretty good fit for what I want to do. My real concern is computing power needed to track and/or mix plenty of tracks at a time.

The Tascam 1082 essentially gives me 10 inputs at a time (eight mic/line + stereo s/pdif that will be fed from a preamp with a digital out), which is perfect. Well... it's perfect assuming that I can actually record ten channels at a time with 2GB of 667MHz DDR2 SDRAM on my dedicated Mac. Maybe I won't know until I try it, but I was hoping to get someone's opinion as to whether I'm asking far too much of my machine...
 
pipelineaudio said:
Which standards body is this covered by?

From my new blog

"An extremely parasitic parallel to this is when you hear "industry standard" used to describe a product that no standards organization exists to bestow such a title upon it. When a sales weasel is fast and loose with the term "industry standard" you may be a mark for someone thinking you an easy target to play fast and loose with your wallet."
Click to expand...

What I meant by audio standard is that almost all studio's use protools so it would be easy to take your sessions to and from another studio. And a lot of the artists that I have worked with that have deals with major labels won't record on anything but protools.
 
You should be happy with either Logic (or its little brother, Logic Express) or Digital Performer (or its little brother, AudioDesk) on the Mac. Those are the only two DAWs I will say that about. I definitely would NOT recommend ANY of the Cubase/Nuendo products. I've read too many people complaining about poor reliability and poor performance. They're apparently okay on Windows, but the only reason you should even consider them on the Mac is if you already own them on Windows and have a deep desire not to switch tools. Otherwise, I'd stick with one of the big two.
 
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