'Aighty all, me again, I am not entirely sure if this is the right category to be posting this in, but no doubt it will get moved if need be.
I am after someone to chat to on the program Logic Audio as I am planning on going on a course eventually and would like to get a little bit of knowledge before I even book it, just basic stuff, nothing fancy, that can come through the course.
It is Logic Audio on the PC, not the Mac.

Thanks again.

Well i am sure there will be 10 people who disagree, but imo pro-tools is the way to go if you going to learn a sequencer.

Different people will advise on different packages but here is what i base mine on.

Pro-tools is pretty much industry standard in several areas. Yes it's more expensive, yes it may not be the most technical package, but the fact is it's used in more studios. Not just music production studios, but TV studios etc. It's HARD to get work in the music industry. Everybody wants to produce music, and in today's market nobody want to pay for it. Working on sound and video mixing etc opens up other areas to you.

If all you want to do is bedroom stuff then pro-tools could be overkill. But if you know pro-tools you have many more options available to you.

You can pick up the lite version of pro-tools fairly cheaply now. You can set-up a basic system for about 2k. I believe you can get a musician grant of £400 from the government, which will help.

Thanks for the opinion, one slight problem though, I do not have the right machine for Pro Tools, I need an Apple Mac for that kind of software, that is why I have chosen to use Logic Audio as up until version 5 they have released it for the PC, I agree that Pro Tools might be a better package, but as I am aware, Logic is the tool that is used in most studio's as this has been my view of things from what I have seen so far.

All I am really after is someone to speak to on the subject of Logic Audio, either in person or through yahoo messenger, so if anyone out there is proficient enough in Logic, get in touch please.

Not related to Sheffield, so moved.

I went on the Logic Audio course at Red Tape Studios last year. It was great for getting the basics and teaching you the layout of logic Pro (they have a PC suite and Mac suite. It was luck which one we ended up in). I didn't know my *rse from my elbow to start with hence going on the course. If thats the one you are doing or are doing anothre beginners course elsewhere dont worry about getting familiar with it first you will be just twiddling your thumbs for the first two weeks. Logic Audio is also industry standard by the way with many live performers swearing by it. A sub point though. A PC really struggles with logic as it was designed for Mac. I had a nightmare setting it up on a standard system and had to buy an M-Audio sound card before it would work (well worth it for the improvement in sound quality - oh yes, get some decent monitor speakers too). In short buy a Mac its LOADS better for all this stuff.

me just one of those 10 who will dissagree :hihi:

you dont need to spend anything to get pro-results or compatibility with video suites.

ardour (http://ardour.org) has just about everything you need to rival a pro-tools engineer, even compatability with video editing suites. *cough* only on linux or OSX

i would recomend the course anyway, simply because once you know the fundamentals, you can apply them to any brand of sequencer and have a pretty good idea of what you need to do to achieve the sound you want.