Logic for me. Logic has better built in instruments and effects, and the environment was particularly interesting for me. Moving to Logic was part of the reason I switched from PC to Mac. Also, I cannot discount the influence of so many other "big name" artists who were on Logic. I'm continually amazed at how diverse and high quality the built in effects and instruments are on Logic.

Cubase 3 had pretty sub-standard instruments and effects when I was using it, although they made some major improvements to both when Cubase 4 was released. The only thing I miss these days on Logic is that Cubase has superior audio editing facilities. Its not on par with Ableton, but the audio editing in Cubase is noticeably better than it is on Logic. This is an area where Logic has traditionally lagged behind other major DAW packages, although they seemed to have addressed the deficiency somewhat in Logic 9 (which I haven't gone to yet).

Logic also has very tight integration with Mac OS X, which makes for a bit more high performance and stable platform on the Mac. Core Audio is built right into the operating system as opposed to ASIO which is 3rd party. This is part of the appeal of Mac in general, as having the same company produce both the hardware and software makes it much easier for Apple to quality control the user experience.

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Objectively: It's a 60 Logic / 40 Cubase for me.

Logic lacks offline editing inside the app, you have to use sountrack, aso rewire slave compatibility. Cubase has audio editing facilities that I like a lot, but also lacks rewire slave comp, a lot of essential effect devices and built-in instruments were missing back in the time of SX3, and the elastic audio engine wasn't that accurate. Now with 5 you've got tha Melodynesque edit feature, and so many more, and of course the glitches got fixed!

Why Logic over Cubase?

More or less the same reasons mentioned by Eric J, also because I got to work in Logic for the first time in 1998 and totally fell in love with it. Back then I was switching from Cakewalk Express or Pro . I kept having trouble with my pc soundcard in cubase, and midi timing was "glitchy". But I made 69 ways in Cubase VST for example and I quite like cubase the way it is now. Nuendo also deserves a mention.

SX3 was a very very nice one, but I had to add a lot of extra plugins and instruments. I'm sure that has changed a lot though...

Logic 9 is now my main sequencer. But I like getting back to Live and Reason every now and then, just to get trained enough and keep the shortcuts and nice routings in mind. It's so important for my workflow.

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Unfortunately I can't really comment in this thread, but I will certainly be watching it closely, as I'm considering both .

Oh, and Eric, nice remix of 'Foursii - Be Here Now' .

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Originally posted by Acton Oh, and Eric, nice remix of 'Foursii - Be Here Now' .

Thanks! I really appreciate that!