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Learning Curve

2006-06-25 by havevoicewillbabble

I know this question would be relative to the time one puts in, and
the comprehension of working with a non linear format. As I am both
willing to devote the time, have had my own facility and have been in
business for 30 years now, (the last 16 working with DAW's), I am now
contemplating going with Logic. 

So the question I would like to put forward is... what in your
opinion(s) would be an average time to be comfortable in executing
Logic Pro. I have heard that 30 days of profanity should do it.


Thanks,

r

Re: [Logic_Cafe] Learning Curve

2006-06-25 by GAmoore@aol.com

I have been using Logic 10 years, and its fairly comfortable, but I did find it annoying for quite a while. I am not sure why. Perhaps it was the early manuals without indexes and various german words. i think there is some stuff that is just not polished or explained or perfected as much as it should be. at least now there are additional logic books too which were not around then. the thing that helped a lot was seeing people use it in action at demos too.

Re: [Logic_Cafe] Learning Curve

2006-06-25 by Paul Najar

On 25/06/2006, at 12:05 PM, havevoicewillbabble wrote:

I know this question would be relative to the time one puts in, and
the comprehension of working with a non linear format. As I am both
willing to devote the time, have had my own facility and have been in
business for 30 years now, (the last 16 working with DAW's), I am now
contemplating going with Logic.

So the question I would like to put forward is... what in your
opinion(s) would be an average time to be comfortable in executing
Logic Pro. I have heard that 30 days of profanity should do it.

When I first started Logic it was 1993/4 and version 1.1 There was no audio. I was coming from being an expert Roland MC 500 user.

I read the manual from cover to cover before I managed to purchase a Macintosh computer. It was EASY to get going. IMO the biggest problems happen when people try to move forward into it without understanding fundamental concepts about architecture and signal flow.

A year later when I added a Yamaha CBXD5 and went "audio" I did the same. Read the manual before trying to start. Once again it was not too hard.

My advice is to read the manual cover to cover and then start. Do this and you should be OK.

As for putting a time frame on it - too hard. That will mostly depend on your personality and self discipline.

Finally, you don't have to have used most features to achieve certain tasks but it is really important to know that the features exist for when you need their help. Figuring out how to use those features at that point is easy.

Good luck

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Paul Najar

Jaminajar Music Production

www.jaminajar.com

Re: [Logic_Cafe] Learning Curve

2006-06-25 by GAmoore@aol.com

I think the problem with reading the manual cover to cover (1000 page?), is that there is a huge amount to learn, and a certain amount of it does not make sense just reading it on a piece of paper - it needs to be experienced. Perhaps choose one topic at a time, read, then experiment, then go on. Even in the new manual, there were some things well written, some given short shrift, then some things which I don't anyone uses given prominence. There's really gotta be a back and forth with reading and using. At leasts thats my 2 cents. Its like a math class, you don't just read the book then start the exercises. Doing the exercises are part and parcel of learning.

But these days there are a number of good books available. The Apple training manual in particular looks like a good way to come up to speed. I also like Stephen Bennet's books. I didn't get that much out of Orren Merton's book because it seemed like a different version of the manual. I did like Len Sasso's book - succinct and to the point, but more a book of tips rather than a starting place.

My advice is to read the manual cover to cover and then start. Do this and you should be OK.

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