What's the best software for Mac and NI?

I have a Mac with OS 10.6.8 - 4GB of ram a Akai MPK49 Keyboard and planning on getting a ATA Firewire RAID with 2 7500 or better hard drives. I have Damage already and will be getting Komplete 8 in a couple of days. I'm using both Garage Band (which seems way to limited and doesn't work fully with my MPK49) and Ableton Live Lite (only lets me use 6 tracks).

So my question is what software should I get? I'm looking at Cubase 6 Artist and Apple's Logic Pro, both are affordable for me but I worry about how easy they are to use and how well they work with NI plugins and my Akai MPK49. Oh I'm doing both live recording and MIDI instruments.

Emily

 

Hello Emily and welcome to the forum.

Try Reaper too:
http://www.cockos.com/reaper/index.php
http://www.cockos.com/reaper/download.php

-- 30 day evaluation period, very affordable, many, many features, good forum support
-- several people here use the NI products in it successfully.

 

I downloaded and worked with Reaper all day and it didn't fair well. I was very excited on the cost and the amazing forums and how much help there is for it but when I tried to use DAMAGE with Kontakt, Reaktor and Guitar Rig I ran into problem after problem. First just changing which sets I wanted caused it to fail and each time I had to restart Reaper then I kept losing sound and alternatively it would stack sounds even though I changed them. If this is how it works with the first try I don't want to use it even if it's free. I'm a big Midi Instrument user and only use recorded audio for finishes like guitar, vocals and maybe some others but the majority is all midi.

Thanks for your suggestion though.

Emily