Emu XL-7 & MP-7 User's Group

paolovalladolid wrote:

> I have Logic Audio Big Box, which I bought last year and still
> haven't opened (shortly after, I joined my first orchestra and was
> busily practicing to get up to speed).  I'm debating the relative
> merits of staying on the Logic platform or switching over to MOTU.  I
> don't have a real mixer yet to organize the audio outputs of the XL-7
> and my 2 Nord synths and am trying to decide between a "traditional"
> Mackie type mixer or a MOTU 828MkII which could do double duty as a
> Firewire audio interface and mixer.  If I choose the latter, I hear
> Digital Performer integrates especially well with the 828MkII.

i use DP4 and it is swell indeed. it has useful things like an actual Drum
Editor and the ability to timestretch/compress all audio bits at the same
time to match MIDI tempo and vice versa, which i still wonder why other apps
don't have such a function. i've used DP since 2.72 so i'm a bit biased
against Logic.

Logic shines with virtual instruments, though. if i were going to be working
on just a laptop with a little controller keyboard, the combination of Logic
Platinum, Reason, and a few choice softsynths.

working with hardware, though, DP is hard to beat, as both FreeMIDI (Mac OS
9) and CoreMIDI (Mac OS X) do a better job of patchlist management than
Logic's environment does. in Mac OS 9 i have both DP 3.11 and Unisyn 2.0.2,
which has an excellent editor/librarian for the Command Station synths. i am
planning on upgrading Unisyn to version 2.1 which purportedly brings the
same patchlist/editor/librarian integration into the Mac OS X arena.

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Bruddah Max
Lord of the Dance