@No3l
My interest is more in 'straight' recording, but also sometimes using software instruments. I'm in the traditional music game, so beats and loops don't really come into it.

That said, I have been known to muck around with other stuff in my own time. It's great fun. I used to use Vision, which was a great sequencer, but it was discontinued and I moved to Logic Pro. Logic's great but it's not exactly the most intuitive, although since Apple bought emagic its usability has improved markedly. The last two versions have seen it been "Apple-ised" into a standard Mac app. It's also really good value now, especially at educational prices.

However, programs like Reason and Live are far better tools for beat handling, rather than just recording and editing.
( K2k6 has a proper job these days, Wed 24 Sep 2008, 8:55, Reply)