So I fired up Logic..

I did a similar thing a couple years ago and haven't looked back.
Logic is the best bang for the buck in my opinion.

The compressor and EQ are great.

I've done the subscription thing with macprovideos. They have lots of logic specific content.

Logic does everything I can think of, and some seriously complicated things I don't even want to begin to learn. I don't quite see where it's "illogical" though John. It seems fairly straightforward to me. The only tricky thing is that sometimes the thing you want to do is done with a very small icon that takes a minute to find. Once you know where it is, it's easy though. Just take one aspect at a time lcr. If you try to put it all together simultaneously, it'll be frustrating
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I really made an attempt to use Logic for a new tune I started today. Started recording a stereo acoustic part. Tried to overdub and I could hear the previous part while I was playing even when I hit record. Spent about 15 minutes tying to figure out what I had set wrong and then just gave up.

Hmm. unless you recorded in two places. When you mute the track you recorded on (a single stereo track, no?) do you still hear it?

Just regular hit the record button to record over a trouble spot. Still hear the old take and it records the new track to a different lane. Just wanted to record over the bad part and then drag the old take up to the fix. It's stuff like this that has led me to say logic is the least logical.

Let me see if I can follow your path John. I'm an average user though, not an expert.

* you record a track
* you want to record a new part where you didn't like the original part
* You have two basic choices, if you just hit record, Logic will record a new take on the same track, enabling you to comp from any of the takes easily later on.
* the second choice is to record on an entirely new track. In that case, of course you'd hear the original track.

Now, if you've recorded a take, and hit record, you should no longer hear the original take, just what you're playing now. The proper thing to do would be to set up the new take using autopunch. You click on the auto punch icon on top, it creates a red line that marks where you punch in, you grab the end of the red line, move it to where you want, you start a little before the red, and it punches in for you.

If you haven't changed anything and just hit record, you should only hear what you're playing, no other takes.

The only time I've ever heard another take was when I have other tracks of the same instrument muted, but leave the reverb sends on.

Johnkenn

I would have just highlighted in the time line (yellow bar at top), the section you want to replace, say bars 4-5 of 8 bars, if you click on the record drop down , you can then select the lead in 1,2 bar etc, and as said above just arm the track and when your hit record on the transport, Logic will start at the position you selected (1,2 bars ahead) and start recording at the beginning of the timeline.

On the channel you 're recording on, if you also clicked on the little i, you would see and hear the input signal, if you have input monitoring on, but with your apollo not needed.

With my symphony, I mute the input channel as I am monitoring in the new controller app gui for lowest latency, as we discussed in the other thread.

I tend to keep the main edit window open with the mixer imbedded ( do this by just clicking on the little mixer image in tool bar top left) and just drag the mixer down so I can both see the mixer and the channel lane that is being recorded, just to visually confirm the recording.

I don't even use auto-punch - Logic records a new lane on the same track for me automagically. Maybe something in prefs is wrong?

^Yes, but I'm talking about creating a new lane on the same track.. Auto-punch has nothing to do with that. ..and that is what John seemed to be having a problem with - though he never said if he was able to create another lane. I doubt he could if he was hearing the first take. Something very basic is amiss here.