BillyMMM
New Member
So I've finally got to the stage where I'm ready to try my hand at recording some music at home - Got my guitars, HD500, and now finally, a nice little Macbook Pro with Logic Pro X and Ableton Live 9 Suite. I've never used any sort of recording software, in any way, ever, at all. I'm guessing that's gonna take some serious Youtube tutorial video watching and SS.org thread browsing.
I'm happy with my entire setup as it stands. However, I went round to my frinds house the other night, who got himself a Line 6 UX2 with Podfarm, and played around on that for a bit. The only reason I bought the HD500 was so that once I got a computer decent enough to handle the software, I could start recording some sweet tunes. I haven't used it that much at all in the 6 or so months that I've had it, except for occasionally plugging my head phones in and jamming out for a bit. It seems a bit of a waste of money to have it sat their not being used to its full potential.
I've been pondering on a couple of things -
1. Would it be worth selling the HD500 and downgrading (if thats the correct term) to a UX2/Podfarm setup? Podfarm seems to do everything I'd need, and I'm not planning on doing anything incredible with it all, I just wanna have a bit of fun making music on my own. I can always upgrade things if/when needs be.
2. Is Logic X gonna be a good program to start off using? I'm pretty handy with computers and whatnot. Is it pretty user friendly, and easy to pick up the basics?
tl;dr - HD500 vs. UX2 + Podfarm. Is there anything better/more suited to what I wanna do than Logic?
I'm happy with my entire setup as it stands. However, I went round to my frinds house the other night, who got himself a Line 6 UX2 with Podfarm, and played around on that for a bit. The only reason I bought the HD500 was so that once I got a computer decent enough to handle the software, I could start recording some sweet tunes. I haven't used it that much at all in the 6 or so months that I've had it, except for occasionally plugging my head phones in and jamming out for a bit. It seems a bit of a waste of money to have it sat their not being used to its full potential.
I've been pondering on a couple of things -
1. Would it be worth selling the HD500 and downgrading (if thats the correct term) to a UX2/Podfarm setup? Podfarm seems to do everything I'd need, and I'm not planning on doing anything incredible with it all, I just wanna have a bit of fun making music on my own. I can always upgrade things if/when needs be.
2. Is Logic X gonna be a good program to start off using? I'm pretty handy with computers and whatnot. Is it pretty user friendly, and easy to pick up the basics?
tl;dr - HD500 vs. UX2 + Podfarm. Is there anything better/more suited to what I wanna do than Logic?