Originally Posted by Fdemetrio
it just SEEMS to me all this software from many companies are all groove oriented. And they are REALLY designed to make you write your song TO the stuff they provide, and not as much to make their parts TO your song.

Its like im not buying this stuff to help me write songs, im buying it to help me arrange them


Bingo!... I purchased the $99 version of BIAB back in November, used it once for a piano track and gave it back. BIAB gave me no control over phrasing, and limited what samples I could use by "style/genre". Ultimately, I was dissatisfied with the sound... I found myself re-arranging my mix to accommodate the "character" of the piano.

GB/LogicX on Mac are very MIDI intensive, if you can at least play chords on a keyboard then you're all set. If you play an E-kit it gets even better, but you can also program drum parts with a keyboard. Or, use the pre-programmed patterns to "block out" your arrangement, then edit. I like GB/LogicX because it an easy to use, all in one program. It already has every "effect/plugin" you can possibly imagine, and allows you to create and store your own. It has arpeggiators that you can program and play any way you can imagine, you can even double them up, but....lol, no... Mac will not play your instruments for you.