Logic Pro 9 Tutorial Video

Research Thus Far

 Writing and recording music has gotten increasingly more reliant on technology in recent years. Artists are taking the act of recording out of the conventional recording studio and into their homes with programs such as Pro Tools, Logic and Reason. This has proved to be a cheaper and easier way to record music than going into a studio and paying a producer by the hour. It also allows the artist to write music in whatever environment he or she pleases because of the increased mobility of the recording technology. Music is becoming more technologically based and this is a good thing for artists and producers for many reasons.

The most popular recording software is currently the program Pro Tools version 9.6. Pro Tools is a digital audio interface program that can be used on both Windows and Mac operating systems. It is used in most professional studios as well as in many peoples' home studios as a primary recording platform. Producers and musicians are capable of achieving very high quality recordings using Pro Tools.

Logic Pro: Advantages and Disadvantages

Logic Pro is a digital audio workstation program created by Apple. It allows music producers to record multiple audio tracks separately or at the same time. It also provides software instruments and effects to be used in songwriting.

Advantages:

• User friendly layout.
• Includes a large amount of instruments and effects
• Capable of very high quality recordings
• Allows for multi-track recording separately and simultaneously 
• Allows for MIDI control of synthesized instruments

Disadvantages:

• Can only be installed on Apple computers
• Relatively expensive
• Few downloadable plug-ins
• Difficult to learn without prior knowledge of other high level recording interfaces
• Takes up quite a bit of computer memory