[yongfook]

Garageband is great. I absolutely love it with all my cold, black heart.

However, Logic Express is looking very tempting. Garageband has introduced me to the world of recording my own music and I love my new hobby so much that I would be more than prepared to pay a little more for some new software - if I knew it was really worth my while.

So my basic question is:

What will logic express do for me that garageband won't?

In garageband I do a lot of midi and acoustic recording - lots of tracks, effects (hardly any loops) and playing with levels etc. If I could improve garageband in any way I would just want a lot more software instruments to play with and perhaps a little less processor hogging. Will Logic Express give me this?

I guess I can take it for granted that Logic will be more fully featured...so actually I suppose my question should be more like:

Is there anything that Logic WON'T let me do that Garageband WILL?

cheers
YF

[OB1]

Previous versions of Logic have been less processor-hungry than Garageband. I'm sure you're aware Logic has just been updated to version 7. It's quite a major upgrade and I haven't personally seen it yet, but early reports seem to suggest that it's still less hungry than Garageband. So yeah, you *should* be able to use more Instruments, AU, effects... and you can use Apple loops too.

It will do everything Garageband does and more, although perhaps not in exactly the same way - Logic isn't known for being the easiest software to get into. Although version 7 brings a new Apple-ized, cleaned-up interface which is apparently more, er... logical.

[synthfiend]

Logic Xpress is a nice app.
I am having a difficult time learning the multi-instrument environment to get it to talk to my 2 synths, but it does a lot of great stuff.
I'd check out the demo for cubase befre you buy, as it has a lot of features that xpress doesn't have yet.

You get 3 really good plugs with xpress, but platinum is the whole enchilada. If you plan on using logic professionally, I'd seriously consider saving for that and skipping xpress altogether.