@Bloodline:
I would look into both.
You may know this stuff already but one of my mates, who is a sound engineer, emailed me earlier today about the difference between Pro and Express.
Here's what he said:
Alright Robert
Express has 5 intruments (ES1,ESE,ESP,EFM1,EXS24P). I don't have EFM1, so I
assume it is one of the ones added to Logic 7 and is also given away with
the new express. The biggest problem is that the sampler is only for
playback i.e. you can't fil it with your own samlples. Peter[anothe sound engineer mate] and I were
always wondering whether, if i created the samples he would be able to play
them back, never found out. It also comes with all the garage band
instruments which you will know more about than me. The other synths are
fairly basic but still very useful especially when used with the automation.
The plug ins are 40 on express and 53 on Pro, so I assume it will be Space
Desinger, Multi-band compressor and the like that will be left out.
Still plenty to be getting stuck into and I am sure that you would have nae
complaints.
It's just finding the time.
Lack of a sampler is a bit of a pain but not 400 quids worth of pain. :-D
