i wanted to buy cubase many years ago, but it was out of my price range back then and still is , also i couldn’t justify spending that amount for the small number of recordings that i do. So i bought logic pro years ago as that was more affordable. Logic pro is far better than garage band – more bells and whistles ie things you can do in logic pro that you cant do in garage band.

However if you seriously get a lot of kicks out of tinkering with music software connected to audio interfaces it’s a tinkerers paradise. But if you only want to travel from A to B there’s no point buying a Rolls Royce when a Mini will do the same job, just give you a bumpier ride. lol

Finale or Dorito is a must if you have music sheets that need transposing. I have hundreds of pages of music in Eb for the Alto Sax, But i also have a Bb Clarinet, and it’s cheaper to transpose them in Finale or Dorito than buying all the same sheets again in Bb just so i can play them on the Clarinet.

to transpose an Alto sheet to play the exact same Concert notes on Tenor and Bb
Clarinet you can only use the range starting from Low B on the Alto sheet up
to High C#. any other notes out of range you would have to play an octave higher or lower on a Bb instrument. So i only transpose Alto sheets in the same range as the Bb instrument i want to play on, as it doesn’t sound quite right if you play the odd note an octave higher or lower – when using the Alto Backing Track.

Transposing raises another interesting point – looking at all of my Alto sheets, the highest they go is altissimo G, so it’s worthwhile at least mastering Altissimo G on the Alto but going higher up does improve how altissimo G is played.

Like it or not, a stronger reed makes altissimo easier to play. Also a wider mouthpiece on the Alto makes it more easier to play altissimo – imho the setup on a sax does make a difference combined with the strength of lung control gained from lots of practice