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I think the soundforge equivalent for a mac would be one of the Logic packages. They have Express, Studio, and Pro. I think Express is like $200, but I have heard nothing but good things about Logic.

Hi, New to these forums, just have a question about Recording, I'm thinking of buying a Mac mini & Motu828 2nd hand for Recording, I used to go out of my desk into a shit soundcard on my PC and record into soundforge 6 but the computer is f*cked and peice of crap anyway, basicly I just want to go xlr main out of my mixer to souncard connected to mac mini, whats the equivalent of ...

Logic has a steep learning curve Read: Logic is hard

Are you buying a new or used Mac Mini? Because you can only run Windows on the newest ones that use the Intel chips. No way on the older ones. And some of the used ones might be using the old G4 chips; you'll get sluggish performance trying to run modern software on them.

Quote: Originally Posted by jrkirkish Logic has a steep learning curve Read: Logic is hard Not any more, logic is no easier/harder than any other DAW, very little setup required. connect any midi and audio hardware, the setup assistant will detect it and configure your default enviornment.

The "Logic" book that is out makes Logic pretty easy to use (at least I found it to be so, and I'd never used a DAW before). I've had a Mac Mini and a new iMac version (the $1100 edition plus $100 spent to get it to 4GB RAM). iMac is a much more capable machine, and upgrades are much easier on it (they require some pretty annoying surgery on the Mini). I'd suggest looking into it.

There is rumored to be a new Mini in a few months.