I take pride in being the fourth wheel of the Secret Lab fun van. We’re doing some wonderful things, and finally, one of them I can blog about.

GarageBand is fun. Logic is even more fun—yummy inserts and EXS24, much <3—but only after you figure out how to use it. Essentially, GarageBand is a glossy, cut-down, consumerised redux of Logic. I am far from being a Logic expert (or a professional muso), but tonight, I show you where some of the “fun” in GarageBand has disappeared to in Logic, and some reasons why Logic is so much more powerful.

So yesterday Rowan was giving away piles of cruft—he’s moving to the big cheese quite soon—and I picked up this little handheld radio, antenna having been detached. Today I went and got some batteries on my way in to uni, and powered it up.