Project length limitation in Logic Express?

I'm considering Logic Express. Playing with it on a machine at the store though, it appears that it has a 15 minute limit when recording audio? Is this a setting that can be changed somewhere, or is this really all it will record? I'm interested in using it to record my band live, and we play about 1 hour sets.
Anyone have any ideas how this could be lengthened, or is 15 minutes really it?

I Was reading about this on a blog and you should be able to up the recording time if you slow down your bpm.
15min = 120bpm
30min = 60bpm
60min = 30bpm......so on
check this guy uses logic pro, indieguitarist.com
hope this helps.

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I've posted this on the logic pro forum but thought should post it here too:
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Anyway, with all my projects carefully prepared (without space designers or any non- Express 8 plug-ins) I copied my workshop projects onto the students computers only to find that the .logic file was missing. Eek! The iMacs we were using had Logic express 8 (not pro) on them but for some reason the .logic file was now replaced by a folder - which we figured out was actually the opened package of the logic pro file:
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Is there a way to re-pack a file whose contents are being shown?
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Ok thanks, so I shouldn't have any problem I guess finish the project with logic9. Do u know by any chance if I can have both 8 and 9 running on my Mac?

Project length limitations?

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I tried with both, I thought I heard awhile ago, that
iDVD limits your videos to an hour, is that true?
iDVD is supposed to fit up to 2 hours of video to a DVD. After about 90 minutes the quality starts looking worse, though. Toast 7 uses AC-3 audio which provides more room for either better video quality on longer DVDs or the ability to fit more video to the DVD. Also, Toast 7 doesn't need to reserve much space as does iDVD for the menus. My opinion is that IDVD is awesome for DVDs up to 90 minutes on single-layer discs or 180 minutes on DL media.
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my songwriting partner just moved to Hawaii. He has Garageband and I'm thinking of upgrading to Logic Express 8. If I create a LE8 project and send it to him, will he be able to open it in Garageband? Will he be able to see all the individual tracks, or will it be combined as just one track.
I know the two applications are compatible going from GB to LE8. But I can't find any information on whether they are compatible in the other direction too.
Don't want to spend $200 on something that only I can use.
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Amazon has it even cheaper:
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I am recording a band in a few weeks, who have already laid down their (live) drum tracks in a proper studio that uses Emagic Logic. I don't know which version, but he runs it on a G4.
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Cheers - it's good news that they're compatible.
I'll have plenty of time to practice with Logic beforehand. Sure it'll be a challenge, but I'm not going to let that put me off.
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You don't specify but have you updated LE to v.9.1.7?
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When I open projects I have made with Garage Band in Logic Express, it takes 4-6 hours to load the song. Thats obviously not the way it is supposed to be.
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So, this takes care of the issue for me.
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Pancenter wrote:
If you can open it in v8.xx, Save it under a different name from 8v and send him the file. See if that works.
pancenter-
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Master volume adjustments aren't translating when i bounce projects from Logic Express, any tips?

hi folks!
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