I've been using Cubase for so long switching makes my heart bleed. But i think the time is nearly upon me.

My main problem with switching is the ease of which I can make my drum patterns within cubase. I have been putting single hit samples straight onto the arrange page, so I can individually EQ and process each channel. Also the audio editing is fast and easy, pitching, and fading in/out.

How are you guys doing this within Logic? I've had a play and think it's all pretty clunky. Is it down to soft samplers? (exs24 etc..?)


Please post back with some tips, as I need excuses to leave my marriage with cubase !! : )



Thanks for your time,
mti

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Ah yes, i remember those days very well! It's a bit of a shock to change over but it is very worth it in the end.

Drum programming in Logic is easy, you can continue to do what you are doing in Cubase by just dropping the single hits onto different audio channels in Logic and processing them using the plugins etc on each channel.

The more professional and better managed way is to load you samples into the EXS24 sampler that comes with Logic.

Say you have a 4 hits in your drum groove, all you do it make a new instrument in the EXS24, load in your 4 samples and map them to different notes on the keyboard.

Once you have saved your instrument you can load up that program on 4 separate 'Audio Instrument' tracks. Then you can program all your 4 drum hits on separate channels using MIDI and it'll be triggering the audio samples in the EXS24.

This way you can very easily adjust your drum groove at any time by editing the MIDI date, plus you can change tempo at any time with no hiccups and the sounds are still going through and audio channel so you can treat them in the same way as all your other audio, plugins, routing to Bus' etc.

Hope that helps, you will pick up Logic pretty easily after the initial shock of the change, but I would guess it would take you about 3 - 6 months to properly feel comfortable with the new system. You'll be happier in the end though.

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Good luck and yes it is worth it!

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Or put your samples in Ultrabeat. You can still route them to individual audio channels if you want, plus you have the power of a per-sample synth engine for maximum and quick tweakage to envelopes and filters etc on the fly, unlike the EXS24 which is kinda icky in this respect.