The Bass Geek

The Ouija Bass, courtesy of Thumbrella.
I’m also curious as to the new music offering from Apple, Logic Studio 8. According to the web store entry, it includes the program, Soundtrack Pro 2 (I use the previous version of this for the IMN Podcast), MainStage (a program design to help use Logic live) and a bunch of samples and virtual instruments. The inclusion of a couple new programs doesn’t surprise me. What DOES get me is that they cut the price in half from the previous version. $1000 was enough to keep me using the software I already have. $500 is now a stretch, but much more reasonable. It’s also more justifiable for me to have this package than the old Final Cut Pro software package I have now. I may have to look into that. I’m most curious about MainStage and how that will work live. Currently, I use Reason live for loops and synth patches, and I’ve got a light edition of Ableton I can use to trigger loops live and run the bass audio through the computer for recording on the fly.

BTW, that’s now $500 on my shopping list for the Logic package and probably about $150 (I’m hoping for a cheap upgrade) for Reason 4 when it comes out later this month. The Playboy Psychonauts better be getting a lot of gigs to justify that expense.

Or I could start doing solo cruise ship gigs. Band-in-a-box, anyone?

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