Hey all,
I am not sure where to ask this but I am really fed up with the idea of being stuck on MAC OS X and paying 3 times more then I should have to for hardware. So many people complain about Windows but I have just as few issues on a PC running Windows as I do on a Mac running OS X. Especially when it is setup to only do one thing, audio. And more importantly, I can build a machine as powerful as a Mac Pro for a 3rd of the cost and upgrade at will.
With that said, I own Logic 8 pro and Sibelius 5 (but it sits collecting dust). If all my work involves orchestrating samples, what would I lose by using Sibelius over Logic? Or maybe easier for someone to tell me what I gain by using Logic. Is Logic more stable? I seem to remember back in the days about 3-4 years ago, Sibelius wouldn't always catch all my controller commands live. Almost as if it was not responsive enough to get them all in time. Logic's never failed me here once. An example would be sometimes Sibelius would miss a pedal down command on my live piano recording and it would be HELL to try to write in a natural pedal command. I think that was about it though. Everything else was smooth. Maybe that's fixed by now.
I think Sibelius doesn't have a "freeze" type system does it? I use that function in Logic all the time.
I perform my initial parts in live. Then I borrow notes from the corresponding notes to paste them into other instrument tracks.
Sibelius would instantly give me dual platform access but am I losing a tremendous amount of things to do that? I pretty much only use VSL products and will be getting Vienna Suite for plugs so I won't even need Logics reverb, or plugs anymore soon.
What do you all think? Any input would be so helpful.
Maestro2be