Mac / Logic

[Kinetic]

Re: Mac / Logic

hehe, 3 years into it .. and uhm 15 tracks finished (well sorta, they never really are finished) and then uhm .... 150 + unfinished loops

thats what you get when trying different plugins and sequencers each time, or when trying to find the right sample for that track

Totally...it took me so long to settle down and finally invest in something...

I remember I had another finished one, which I based around a recorded angry phone call from one of our clients, but I can?t find it anywhere. And right now I have a half-finished in Ableton, which has been like that for months.

This shit requires dedication man, and with 2 kids, a wife and a full time job, it?s just real difficult...but I have fun, which is what I look for in this anyway.

[Kamal]

Re: Mac / Logic

thought I'd share the track we "sorta" put together

http://www.mercuryserver.com/shares/Harold_&_the_Kumars-Black_&_White.mp3

did that in about 2.5 hours. No where near complete and I'd defo edit out a few parts but a treo put it together so thats how it sounds now..... had a blast making it

[neoee]

Re: Mac / Logic

K, what did you guys use to put that together? Thats unbelievable that you got that far in just 2.5 hours.

[groffhibbitz]

Re: Mac / Logic

I have to chime in here. It does take some dedication!! At least I think that's what it is. I'm in the same boat having tons of 'just started' songs or just loops, with different plugins, different drum kits, different soudns tempos, reverbs compressors ideas every single track is different and not finished. Ahh!!!

Now I bought some new equipment... but hopefully I can find a few things that I like using, and use them effectively and easily. that's my goal. To work better...

[Kamal]

Re: Mac / Logic

Hey Sunny, thanks for that.... as far as I remember, just Logic

Though we did fool with the M-Audio keyboard a bit to get a few of the rolling basslines too

[Jenks]

Re: Mac / Logic

FWIW...

pick one program and get good at it. it doesn't matter if it's logic, cubase, reason, whatever. you don't need a 3 thousand dollar mac to produce bombs tho. i know some big producers that use mid range dell laptops and fruityloops and record labels are eating up their tracks, and record stores are selling out of them. It's a matter of picking a program and getting good at it. Once you can run all over that program like it's your living room, and you're exhausted, then add bells and whistles and start upgrading.

I'd love to have a mac. Certainly can't justify the price tho when i've seen what half the money can do.

[ShawnD64]

Re: Mac / Logic

i was able to get my mac on a major discount (it was a floor model) and got logic used for very cheap.... so i lucked out

here is a song i just did....bear in mind i am learning

http://www.scdmusic.com/skimming.mp3

[Kinetic]

Re: Mac / Logic

Ok Kamal here´s the track. With my usual modesty, I called it "Genius at Work"...

http://download.yousendit.com/16BB39B946B76C58

Btw, I know it´s cheesy as hell, no need reminding me. I thought about remastering before posting it here, since I now a bit more and have better plugins, but that would be cheating, so it´s just the same as 2 years ago...

All I remember is that I did it in about one week, I used Ableton Live 4, a synth called Vanguard, and the rest I don´t remember.

The only thing I´m proud about it is that it´s 100% me, no loops and I actually wrote and played the melody that comes in at 3:41.

Everything else...well, let´s say that I would never do a track like this today...it would still be crap, but at least it wouldn´t be cheesy...

[Kamal]

Re: Mac / Logic

I know now is a good time to enable "attachments" in the production forum. I'm gonna download both those tracks and give you $0.02

[Mark Santangelo]

Re: Mac / Logic

i've also just moved to mac's just for logic to produce got to say i now love them and dont want to touch a pc ever again windows is just plain shit to the osx.

mac's are not faster they are just smoother.

i didnt even know how to install things on the mac when i got it everything is diff to pc but i got this http://www.macprovideo.com/browse/logic which helps alot for a new to logic user

[Kamal]

Re: Mac / Logic

here is a song i just did....bear in mind i am learning

http://www.scdmusic.com/skimming.mp3

Not bad, though I assume this track is still in the works.... the bassline flows well through the song bit it seems to overpower the most of the track i.e. its the dominating element of the song making it.... kinda monotonous....

Ok Kamal here?s the track. With my usual modesty, I called it "Genius at Work"...

http://download.yousendit.com/16BB39B946B76C58

Btw, I know it?s cheesy as hell, no need reminding me.

ok I wont remind you it is Anthemish... I'd add some reverb to the synth and tone the "highs" of the synth to muffle the sound. I like your use off effects sudden halts in the track and it resumes just as well. Pretty good

[Kobe]

Re: Mac / Logic

I wonder where all this will stand once apple abandons it's OS and runs on Windows? Does this mean there will once again be a Windows version of Logic?

[Kinetic]

Re: Mac / Logic

ok I wont remind you it is Anthemish... I'd add some reverb to the synth and tone the "highs" of the synth to muffle the sound. I like your use off effects sudden halts in the track and it resumes just as well. Pretty good

Pretty much spot on! the reverb thing...well, I didn?t use any on the whole track! That?s great if you?re doing techno, but light-trance? No way...as for the synth, that?s just crappy EQ?ing.

But to me the worse thing is the kick...it?s doubled...I used 2 different kicks and tried to EQ them so as they would seem like a massive one, but I did a crappy job of it.

Back to topic, here?s my current "kit-list", just to reinforce the point that you should try to limit yourself to a few tools and learn them well...and sometimes limitations stimulate creativity :

Ableton Live 5 + Operator - Sequencer (and main soft-synth)
Acon Acoustica - Audio Editor
Arts Acoustic Reverb - well...reverb
Dubstation - Delay
CamelPhat3 - mlti-FX (mainly compression, distortion, warming and filtering....)
Blockfish - Compressor (free)
Floorfish - Gate (free)
Spitfish - vocal de-esser (free)
Dominion - transient shaper, saturation (free)
Endorphin - multi purpose compression (free)
Liveslice - beat slicer/arranger
Lucifer - fuck shit up/multi-fx/glitch
Colortone Pro - "flavour" plugin
Posihfopit - EQ (free)
MicroTonic - Drum machine/bass synth
Spectralive - exciter/mastering plugin
Vanilla compressor - sidechain compressor (free)
W1 Limiter - well...limiter (free)
WiderBoy pro - Stereo widening plugin.

then I use 2 Behringer MIDI controllers, the BCR2000 and the BCN44...and I?m gonna be checking out a few MIDI keyboards this weekend, actually!

[jeffrey collins]

Re: Mac / Logic

I would actually stick with an older g5 Imac as they are still pretty freaking awesome. you can get one now for about 8-900$ with 2 gigs of ram, which is enough to run anything. Logic is the most insane music program this side of protools. I'd say start with Ableton Live 5, as it's an awesome program, very easy interface and quite easy to get some awesome stuff out of.

[miketpoto]

Re: Mac / Logic

Easier than me?