Logic Pro Live out tomorrow?

theque · Post by **theque** » Wed Sep 05, 2007 1:27 am

apple have bought a lot of software companies, made the program better, bundled it and made it cheaper in many cases. like final cut pro and motion. so it might be good.

Sales Dude McBoob · Post by **Sales Dude McBoob** » Wed Sep 05, 2007 3:31 am

They're going to release a shiny new Logic Pro that all the little 14 year olds are going to want for Christmas.

Machinesworking · Post by **Machinesworking** » Wed Sep 05, 2007 4:51 am

theque wrote:apple have bought a lot of software companies, made the program better, bundled it and made it cheaper in many cases. like final cut pro and motion. so it might be good.

Honestly I don't see Apple as doing much good with Logic so far. The first Apple branded version, Logic Pro 7 was buggy as hell for about 9 months before they put out updates that fixed 95% of the ones I had at least.

They made it cheaper all told, every plug in included, etc. but not allowing Emagic/Logic programmers to release a newer version last year put Logic as the oldest DAW point release wise out there.

I hope they learned their lesson from the 7 release and whenever they put it out it's dead stable, but at this rate Logic will be so far behind, that Live will have all the extensive MIDI editing and other neat tricks Logic does before Logic does anything as intuitively or as live instrument like as Live does. We'll see, it's definitly about time for a new version, before they end up like Studio Vision.

Oscar F · Post by **Oscar F** » Wed Sep 05, 2007 9:26 am

I swear if I read one more friggin Logic Pro speculation thread in any forum on the net I am going to go fucking insane ................................
It's like a rash of Logic Bots have swamped every music forum I go to at the moment

Oscar F · Post by **Oscar F** » Wed Sep 05, 2007 9:28 am

ilia wrote:just think about it: a combination of Live's extensive MIDI editing features and Logic's intuitive interface and instant-gratification-learning-curve! The best of both worlds!

Bwahahahahahahah - thanks for the laugh I think I needed to read that one.
Still giggling too myself as I type

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dango · Post by **dango** » Wed Sep 05, 2007 9:29 am

i did read a post on this forum where someone mentioned they have a contact at apples logic dept. and they said they were gearing up for an official release of the new logic in October.

Pasha · Post by **Pasha** » Wed Sep 05, 2007 12:01 pm

I'll stay aLive

rbro · Post by **rbro** » Wed Sep 05, 2007 4:15 pm

Looks like Sir Paul is going to announce some kind of Apple/Beatles/iTunes deal as well:

http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/07 ... ement.html

ghosttrax · Post by **ghosttrax** » Wed Sep 05, 2007 4:24 pm

This evening's event is too public to launch Logic at.
Half an hour to go until we see the official new nano.

ghosttrax · Post by **ghosttrax** » Wed Sep 05, 2007 4:28 pm

rbro wrote:Looks like Sir Paul is going to announce some kind of Apple/Beatles/iTunes deal as well:

http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/07 ... ement.html

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6980397.stm

inmazevo · Post by **inmazevo** » Wed Sep 05, 2007 5:13 pm

Machinesworking wrote:Honestly I don't see Apple as doing much good with Logic so far. The first Apple branded version, Logic Pro 7 was buggy as hell for about 9 months before they put out updates that fixed 95% of the ones I had at least.

They made it cheaper all told, every plug in included, etc. but not allowing Emagic/Logic programmers to release a newer version last year put Logic as the oldest DAW point release wise out there.

Indeed. LP is actually having a hard time keeping up with even the Apple hardware releases, for some at least. And, even when they do, they charge you for it.

Core Audio Overload problems galore. Wheeh... fun, fun, fun. Didn't used to happen this much.
MIDI drift when controlling external equipment. Wheeh... fun, fun, fun. Used to be spot-on for me, but useless now (I actually use Cakewalk Sonar for this stuff now).

Between those two, and the dongle (archaic, and prevents me from taking LP mobile, since I'm quite paranoid about it), and what I perceive as the app being all but abandoned... I'm pretty much done with the app.

Interestingly, I actually bought Ableton Live specifically for use on my Macbook. I didn't want to take LP's dongle around with me, so I got Live hoping to use it as my mobile scratch-pad.

Now, for me, it's all but eclipsed Logic Pro. I definitely miss the bundled effects/instruments, but I'm alright with 3rd party ones.

We'll see. Maybe they'll eventually get around to releasing an update, but the rumors of LP8 have been going on for well over 2 years. Doesn't make me think they actually care about the app, or the userbase.

- zevo