Nicholas, thanks for your email. As the lead for our music creation apps, I always want to hear what our users are thinking. I want to assure you the team is still in place and hard at work on the next version of Logic Pro.
-xander
Who cares if they get the team together and build something again how great it may be. Its so freakin late. Once it gets out who knows how long its going to take to see an update etc. In the meantime we're still stuck with overpriced Mac Pro's and other macs which get harder and harder to upgrade and/or repair.
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Last week, a rumor surfaced claiming that Apple had "decimated" its pro audio group...
I second that. That issue (which there is a 36 page thread about at Logic Pro Forums) really makes the program unusable for me for now.
I see Logic is now $199. When did that happen? I paid $500 a few years ago. Wasn't it $1000 at one point?
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For starters, when I hit record there is a delay of a few seconds. Something I never had before Mountain Lion.
Even if Logic Pro X doesn't come until 2014 you still have more power than anyone had even just a decade ago. Stop letting your tools be the reason why you cannot make great things.
Bitter party of 1.
Relax guys..this negative attitude will seep into your music. Remember this little factoid. The tools you have today are unimaginably more powerful than Bach, Beethoven or Mozart had at their disposal. These tools allow you to create music despite not having as much talent (presumably) than the aforementioned composers.
Even if Logic Pro X doesn't come until 2014 you still have more power than anyone had even just a decade ago. Stop letting your tools be the reason why you cannot make great things.
Logic X will probably be a slightly enhanced version of Garageband targeted toward prosumers and sold on the App Store for $39.99.
Logic users tend to be pretty loyal. Plus if Apple didn't care about audio production they wouldn't have purchased Redmatica's software. Clearly they want to integrate better sample editing tools the the Logic arsenal.
as much as i'd like to see logic pro x -
what about aperture? Imo the much more pressing matter...
So were Final Cut Pro users... and Mac Pro users... and look how they were treated.
FCP X was updated and lacked several must-have features for pros, including multiple-camera support and the ability to open files from older versions of FCP. Oh, and you couldn't buy the old FCP anymore, so if you were a shop that needed to add a seat, that person could never open any projects anyone else was working on - you'd have to move everyone over to the new software, and then NO ONE could open any old projects.
Then the Mac Pro was updated to cutting-edge, top-of-the-line mid-2011 processors... in mid-2012.
It's pretty clear that Apple either has completely lost interest in the Pro market or has no idea what they need. Either way, if I were a pro user, I'd be seriously looking at Windows solutions now. Platform loyalty is all well and good, but pros have to take into account the bottom line both now and down the road.
I really hope Logic has a better fate and Apple gets their Pro act together, though.
iWorried.
So were Final Cut Pro users... and Mac Pro users... and look how they were treated.
FCP X was updated and lacked several must-have features for pros, including multiple-camera support and the ability to open files from older versions of FCP. Oh, and you couldn't buy the old FCP anymore, so if you were a shop that needed to add a seat, that person could never open any projects anyone else was working on - you'd have to move everyone over to the new software, and then NO ONE could open any old projects.
Then the Mac Pro was updated to cutting-edge, top-of-the-line mid-2011 processors... in mid-2012.
It's pretty clear that Apple either has completely lost interest in the Pro market or has no idea what they need. Either way, if I were a pro user, I'd be seriously looking at Windows solutions now. Platform loyalty is all well and good, but pros have to take into account the bottom line both now and down the road.
I really hope Logic has a better fate and Apple gets their Pro act together, though.
Logic X has been a long time coming. would like much improved audio editing and i hope they're implementing ipad integration for touch interface.
Maybe I just don't get it, but having recently finished my first album with Logic Pro (all solo), I'm hard pressed to think of anything Logic Pro 'needs' added to other than perhaps more default software synth patches and a better WAV editor and perhaps some mastering tools to make volume matching, etc. a bit easier for separate projects. I thought Logic was awesome, personally. I got professional results with total ease, really. And unlike the older Final Cut Pro, Logic actually used both my cores for processing on my MBP. Now I've got a quad-core Mini i7 I could use for editing and it would simply own for sheer processing DSP and more tracks at once.
Platform loyalty is all well and good, but pros have to take into account the bottom line both now and down the road.
I really hope Logic has a better fate and Apple gets their Pro act together, though.
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I doubt they care. Apple is probably busy counting money from iPhones and iPads.
How will this be handled if you purchased through the App Store? Just have to purchase the entire version as a new piece of software? They really need a paid upgrade mechanism for the App Store.