cry, cry cry...some of the post made on this recent thread are very valid, but, i have another perspective. In march of this year, I, a newbie to DAW systems, purchased the almighty Cubase VST/24. according to legend, it would supposedly turn my computer into a studio. All I needed was a P 233 w/32MB RAM (yeah, right...) but in my Newbie-ness, I purchased it and a gina card. When I got it home and loaded it, I thought it was beautiful. And since it was beatiful, it must be REALLY good, right? I read all the accompanying info and proceeded to try to record. lo and behold, the screen wouldn't redraw. a not-so-quick call (45 minutes on hold) revealed that I need more memory (i had an AMD k6-2 366 w/64MB RAM). I had been lied to. so rather than flip out, I went to the store and upgraded to 160MB ram. Once installed, I embarked on a 6 month journey of audio buffer to track number settings, horrible midi syncronization, noisy audio tracks, etc. I even went thru the Cubase windows users site list of system optimizations. this system was as stable as it was going to get. The reason i kept Cubase for so long was beacause (a)it was really pretty (yes, i admit it), (b)it has all of those cool "theoretical(at least on PC) features, (c) the other viable alternative(Logic) had a reputation for being hard to learn. I even purchased a p300 laptop w/ 128MB RAM specifically to use with it live. the result: worse than the desktop. Over the course of the year up to late september, I had managed to waste an entire year and had not been able to write ONE song for the entirety of that time. then in lat September, I had a few hundred extra dollars and decided to at least try Logic. I installed the software, skimed the manual, and attempted to record some audio into my laptop with it . "CPU too slow". I figured I had made another purchase mistake, but I came to this mailing list and searched for a cure, which i found. After reseting my virtual audio drivers in the registry, Logic worked like a dream. It screams on my laptop. I am able to play back about 26 audio tracks with no sync problems, and a few effects thrown in. the waveplayer is a godsend because it WORKS!! no latency, no crackling. yeah it could use some work, but it works...NOW! Midi is rock solid. I don't have to setup audio buffers every time I want to record. it is customizable to an extreme. All I'm trying to say is that Logic is software that works with a minimum of fuss. I think that a some people on this list are suffering from "feature-itis". Would you rather trust your creations and livelihood to a 10th generation beta with a feature list that will be real cool "someday", or a DAW that works well NOW. Since september, I've written a new album (on my laptop) and am completing a Christmas collection. to me, that says it all. Onyx Ashanti ----- Original Message ----- From: Wolfe Bowers To: logic-users@onelist.com Sent: Sunday, November 21, 1999 7:26 AM Subject: Re: [LUG] Wish list: NTFS, Rewire, PIII Optimization,Multi processor support From: "Wolfe Bowers" <wolfe@...> > 1 * Cubase already works under Win2000, Win NT, Win98. > 3 * Cubase supports Rewire, > 4 * Cubase Supports VST Plugins > 5 * Cubase uses SSE instructions of PIII Processors. > 6 * Cubase will support multi processors very soon. Nuendo already does. > 7 * Cubase has a very nice support for soundfonts (Which I believe is a very > importamt standard for next gen. soft synths and samplers) oh, i agree.. logic is the only sequencer (out of cubase, cakewalk) that handles my video needs without crashing, so I'm forced to use it at the studio, otherwise I'd probably use CubaseVST24. C'mon Emagic!