Considering Switching from Cubase (finally).  Some questions.

I've been a cubase user for the past 10 years and am a little tired of Steinberg's lack of support and the fact that they break more things than the fix in their updates. I've been to a friends studio (who just switched to a Mac)and am trying to get familiar with Logic before I plunk down the dollars. He has a 4 core mac pro with 4gb ram.
Here are my questions:
1. When you record arm the track, why does the audio engine "glitch"? The cubase engine wouldn't drop out sound because of arming a track.
2. Is there a way to have the program auto record arm a selected audio track the way cubase does?
3. When you "arm" a audio track, why are you limited to what functions you can perform on the mixer,etc? Is there a way around this.
I would really appreciate any help possible. The Logic 8 studio package is really tempting for a million reasons, but the above things seem to get in the way of my workflow.
SpiderMix

Paul Bienick wrote:
Initially, I missed my productivity. I was quite comfortable in Cubase and very quick at getting around. But after a while I was just as productive in Logic. I miss that Cubase's meters and song position locater are dead accurate: Logic's channel meters and play head are WAY ahead of where they should be once you start using a bunch of high-latency plug-ins. I've been told to accept this, but I think it's ridiculous.
Right, this is part of Logic's flawed PDC and buffering scheme, it makes it a pain to use for some of the commercials that I do. If I'm working on my own stuff it's not so bad but it's something that needs to be re-thought from the ground up.
I can tell you what I don't miss. I don't miss the mixer - I've heard that some people prefer it over Logic's but I just don't understand this. I find Logic's mixer to be much more efficient. I don't miss the way Cubase handles touch automation. I don't miss the crashing -
I'm using Cubase on PC with the same RME card that's in my Mac, (not the same card, but same make/model) and it's rock solid on the PC. I 've upgraded to the latest version of 4.xx and it's fixed most outstanding issues I've had. I was a long time Logic user on PC from the early MIDI only days and used it up through version 4 which was bad news. Trying over the past year to get back into Logic, there's a lot to like, I need something with a little more whoomph than the dual 1.8G5. OSX is certainly ummm. what did they use to call Windows, bloated. I can't believe how much overhead OSX has, Tiger is better, Panther flew, such is the price of progress.
Oh and I don't miss having to turn off my monitor manually when Cubase was running as it would interfere with the screen saver and energy settings. Although this was relatively minor, it was completely unacceptable and extremely annoying. I sincerely hope it's been fixed in recent versions of Cubase.
I never minded the monitor thing, nor the fact that the computer didn't sleep when Cubase was running. OSX and some audio interfaces lose connecton if/when the computer goes to sleep or a screensaver opens. Seems more professional, they could make it an option though. I think most users disable those OSX features when using their machines for Audio/MIDI.
As far as the colors go, you'll forget all about it once you start colorizing your regions.
Didn't you use the custom color setup?
When working on my own material I've often gone back and forth between the two as ideas develop differently on each platform.
Have fun!
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