logic studio ate my jazz post

i should be posting about the second set of lessons in the awesome jazz guitar book i mentioned below but i’m not. tonight i was distracted by logic studio and the coolness that it brings to the table. i upgraded (after teaching the dudes at the apple store about how the pricing works…sigh) and have been having a little too much fun messing around with it. the deal is, quite simply put, that the difference between logic express and studio is vast.

if all i got out of it was the space designer plugin interface, i would be quite content. in fact, that’s why the upgrade was planned. the presets and less than adequate access to specific parameters left me feeling like there was too much missing when defining the sound of acoustic instruments. my studio is a very dead, very small spare bedroom that lacks anything that resembles character. the living room/dining room of the house has hard floors and sounds great but there’s that whole “little boy and dog running all over the place” hurdle to clear. so i need to have a little something extra. space designer brings the love.

also of note, the sculpture synth. it does some funky modeling and produces some really lush pads. i’m a huge fan of camel audio’s cameleon 5000 soft synth and sculpture gives it a real run for its money. most of my studio time tonight was burned just moving sliders and messing around with weird pads. it’s really exciting to have access to this.

i still haven’t touched main stage or wave burner or soundtrack pro. wave burner will likely be that app that i can’t live without, but we’ll see.

also of note is the presence of all of apple’s jam packs in the logic studio suite. there are some that i could live without and a pile that really do provide that certain something. a point of departure or an enhancement. a lot of the loops to my mind are the equivalent of dumping some onion soup mix into a meatloaf because although you know you could measure out each and every spice you really have other, more important things you could be doing. yeah, the apple loops are like that.

i’m very pleased with the upgrade. this week’s sketch will probably be some more silly electronica with wild, overdone pads and drum loops processed through whatever i can dig up. this is seriously fun stuff.

and next week it’s back to the jazz studies! seriously! come back thursday for tunes.

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