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Hello from Greece everyone. Excellent website Pete (Cheers!)

My name is Raoul. I am a pianist, I study Composition and I have been doing a lot of composing since ... forever.

I switched to being a Mac user about a year ago. Up until now I was a Cubase SX and Sibelius fan and user, that is until I was exposed to Logic by a friend. Needless to say, I was really excited with it.

My main objective at the moment is to use sounds as close to the real thing as possible (especially orchestral sounds). Can you please inform me of any libraries of virtual instruments for Logic that can serve to this purpose? Will Edirol's Orchestral do the job like in Cubase? Do you propose another software?

In addition, my hardware ranges from a Yamaha Clavinova CVP-105 as a keyboard, to the m-audio firewire 410 soundcard, the sennheiser eh2270 monitor headset (no speakers yet!) and a 1.67 Ghz PowerPC G4 with 2 GB memmory. But it is very probable that I will be able to replace the later with a MacBook Pro. Do you think that I really need anything else in terms of hardware?

Thank you for your time.
 
Greetings Raoul, and welcome to the site.
Take a few moments to look over Pete's excellent series of articles on Jazz and Composition. I've been at this for over 30 years and I gleamed a plethora of information there myself. Excellent stuff.
Cheers.
 
Hi Raoul

Welcome to the breakfast Room.

happy to see you like Logic pro.

Ihave tried Garritan Personal Orchestra, it's OK but not brilliant. I also used EW?QL Symphonic Orchestra (Gold) which is a bit better. I think the best is Vienna Symphonic Library, but is incerdible expensive.

Sounds to me like you have all the equipment you need, these days very little extra outboard is required with Logic, just what you have and maybe a decent mic if you do recording.
 
At 10:53:39 AM 03/07/06, Saxismyaxe wrote:
Greetings Raoul, and welcome to the site.
Take a few moments to look over Pete's excellent series of articles on Jazz and Composition. I've been at this for over 30 years and I gleamed a plethora of information there myself. Excellent stuff.
Cheers.

Thanks a lot Michael. I'll check it out.

Cheers!
 
At 11:12:11 AM 03/07/06, Pete Thomas wrote:
Hi Raoul

Welcome to the breakfast Room.

happy to see you like Logic pro.

Ihave tried Garritan Personal Orchestra, it's OK but not brilliant. I also used EW?QL Symphonic Orchestra (Gold) which is a bit better. I think the best is Vienna Symphonic Library, but is incerdible expensive.

Sounds to me like you have all the equipment you need, these days very little extra outboard is required with Logic, just what you have and maybe a decent mic if you do recording.

Many thanks Pete. I'll see what I can do about Vienna. The good part is that I have found a great pair of monitor speakers at a fairly decent price.

Cheers!
 

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