Upgrading to a clone on an external drive

I want to try out Mavericks. I am currently running Snow Leopard. I was thinking about cloning my internal drive to an exteral firewire drive. Can I use the clone to install Mavericks and test it? How exactly would that work? Do I boot on the cloned drive, then go to the App Store and get the Mavericks update?
My biggest concern is making sure my versions of Logic Express, Final Cut Pro X, etc., still work. Also, I have a lot of Apple loops installed and the original DVDs that came with the loops uses Rosetta, so I know I can't install again in Mavericks.
Anyway, if anyone knows if this will work, let me know.
Thanks

Niel wrote:
You install Mavericks on the external drive; this can be done with or without cloning your existing system to it. If you choose not to clone Snow Leopard, specify the external drive when setting up the Mavericks installation.
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Are you saying I just need to setup an external drive, go to App Store, click on the Mavericks update and then what? I don't want it to overwite my Snow Leopard. Does it give you an option of where to install? Will it mess with my Snow Leopard internal drive? The reason I wnated to clone it was that my Apple loops are on my internal and I thought having them on the clone would let me just see that (if I boot to it). Can you point me to any KBs on doing this?
Thank you

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