TubaSolo
April 1st, 2008, 01:48 PM
Like any fool in a new relationship I was all starry-eyed and enthralled by the promising features as I fell for Logic and thought my old daw-friend (DP) and I were through.
I happily started threading Logic waters, confident I'd soon find a smooth workflow and that my marriage to DP was definitely a thing of the past.
I watched the videos, went through the tutorials, checked the forums and the manuals, gathering useful tricks as I went and hoped for the best.
Last week I did my first serious project entirely in Logic. After a lot of cursing and bafflement trying to find out how to do simple things that were a breeze to do in DP, here's a few of my ponderings hoping most of them are due to newbie shortsightedness and y'all soon bring me a few slightly humiliating but greatly relieving "duh moments":
1- There seems to be no way to hear the selection I'm making with the marquee tool in the arrange window, inside of an audio region. That's insane, how do I know that I'm selecting, say a certain vowel or syllable in a word, if I can't hear what I'm doing?
2- All sophisticated comping features set aside, the whole track/take system seems cumbersome to use. How can I create a new take just to plop some stuff on it, or duplicate an existing take on any given track? I'll get more adventurous and will try all sorts of weird shit on "take 3 - copy" if I know "take 3" is still only a click away.
3- Now let's say I want to lower one single word on a vox track by 2 db.
In DP, I can very conveniently choose between:
a)-- processing the region with a "Trim" plugin, non-realtime style,
b)-- or reach for the audio menu and lower the level of just that "soundbite", as Motu calls it.
But here, the only choice (outside of volume automation) is to go to the sample editor and, god forbid you'd even dream of applying that change on several non-contiguous regions at the same time, apply the level change region by region.
Destructively.
On the audio file itself!!??
Are they kidding?!?!?
4-Is there any way you can process audio thru a plugin in non realtime?
I know you can freeze tracks to save up cpu cycles, but let's say I just want to filter or compress or eq a certain region once & for all, how can I do that without leaving a devoted plug on that track needlessly forever?
5- Logic wont let your mouse wheel automatically see it should scroll horizontally or vertically according to the scroll bar it's on. I know it seems like minor stuff but it impedes on the workflow quite a bit.
Now say it ain't so, Joe....
I happily started threading Logic waters, confident I'd soon find a smooth workflow and that my marriage to DP was definitely a thing of the past.
I watched the videos, went through the tutorials, checked the forums and the manuals, gathering useful tricks as I went and hoped for the best.
Last week I did my first serious project entirely in Logic. After a lot of cursing and bafflement trying to find out how to do simple things that were a breeze to do in DP, here's a few of my ponderings hoping most of them are due to newbie shortsightedness and y'all soon bring me a few slightly humiliating but greatly relieving "duh moments":
1- There seems to be no way to hear the selection I'm making with the marquee tool in the arrange window, inside of an audio region. That's insane, how do I know that I'm selecting, say a certain vowel or syllable in a word, if I can't hear what I'm doing?
2- All sophisticated comping features set aside, the whole track/take system seems cumbersome to use. How can I create a new take just to plop some stuff on it, or duplicate an existing take on any given track? I'll get more adventurous and will try all sorts of weird shit on "take 3 - copy" if I know "take 3" is still only a click away.
3- Now let's say I want to lower one single word on a vox track by 2 db.
In DP, I can very conveniently choose between:
a)-- processing the region with a "Trim" plugin, non-realtime style,
b)-- or reach for the audio menu and lower the level of just that "soundbite", as Motu calls it.
But here, the only choice (outside of volume automation) is to go to the sample editor and, god forbid you'd even dream of applying that change on several non-contiguous regions at the same time, apply the level change region by region.
Destructively.
On the audio file itself!!??
Are they kidding?!?!?
4-Is there any way you can process audio thru a plugin in non realtime?
I know you can freeze tracks to save up cpu cycles, but let's say I just want to filter or compress or eq a certain region once & for all, how can I do that without leaving a devoted plug on that track needlessly forever?
5- Logic wont let your mouse wheel automatically see it should scroll horizontally or vertically according to the scroll bar it's on. I know it seems like minor stuff but it impedes on the workflow quite a bit.
Now say it ain't so, Joe....