Are You Ready for Logic Pro X?

[Terry VerHaar]

A lot of people are either going to love this or hate this:

http://www.appleinsider.com/articles...gic_pro_x.html

[Noah Kadner]

Hehe- not the best researched article as the image of "FCP X" they show is actually Motion 5. But who's counting....

[Jake Bastian]

As long as they incorporate some of the NR features that are going to be lost with soundtrack it seems like this will be a solid release. I really don't see the reason to make this a love/hate/FCPX thing as the change isn't really as drastic.

[Mark Allen]

I don't understand why they would have a logic and soundtrack pro when they could clearly be the same application... I guess they let logic develop on it's own more than other apps or so I've heard... but as a user of both - I always wish for a combination of the two as they both have some nice features the other lacks.

[Bruce Allen]

Don't see any problem with this update...

As long as Logic Pro X can read old Logic projects.

...and they don't decide to kill half their features, go back to their Garageband codebase and extend that instead.
Though Garageband would be a better starting point than iMovie anyway IMHO (I think it is kinda based on Logic anyway?).

If they decided to get rid of tracks and have a Magnetic Timeline, I could see a few people being pissed off though :P

That said, Pro Tools is currently kicking their ass :)

Bruce Allen
www.boacinema.com

[Mark Allen]

I was a very heavy power protools users from version 1 to 4 and I still think it had the best audio FX editing of anything I've tried... some features that I've not seen much in anything else (except nuendo which in my experience never worked so hot on a mac or without special audio cards). But I stopped using ProTools because I was just so tired of constantly upgrading the hardware. It was endless. And i the meantime people with Logic were doing just about the same stuff but with no additional hardware required. And, amazingly, apples first real update of logic was pretty darned good and made it better and didn't piss off it's core base too much - so... there is hope. :-)

I'm still hopeful for FCPX though... I think it's just missing some real-world interfacing features, but i sort of like the concept behind it.

[Bruce Allen]

I was a very heavy power protools users from version 1 to 4 and I still think it had the best audio FX editing of anything I've tried... some features that I've not seen much in anything else (except nuendo which in my experience never worked so hot on a mac or without special audio cards). But I stopped using ProTools because I was just so tired of constantly upgrading the hardware. It was endless. And i the meantime people with Logic were doing just about the same stuff but with no additional hardware required.

You know that's the fun of Pro Tools 9, right? It now works great with any audio hardware - even your internal Mac laptop audio output.

Of course, they should have done that years ago. I think the Avid's management team that was pro-"locking you into expensive hardware upgrades" was fired a few years ago though.

Bruce Allen
www.boacinema.com

[Luc Bouvrette]

As a power user myself, I'm loving the current version of Logic Studio although a tad afraid of Apple going FCPX on its (and my) ass.

On the plus side, I like the fact it'll be released on the App Store. Hopefully this will mean a price drop.