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Apple Releases Logic Studio
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The new Logic 8 is so stream line. I got it on Friday and can not stop playing around. Apple did good with this one.
I'm in!
Just got my Studio 8 upgrade (to Logic Express 7.2). Installed the core app and skipped on the logic content and jam packs. Once I verify the app is working I will re-run the installation to install the almost 40GB worth of Logic Content (3 dvds) and Jam Packs (another 3 dvds) on my external FW800 Lacie 500GB drive.
I'm using macbookpro 15" 2.2 C2D with 4GB RAM.
I was a cubase SX3 user for an year and decide to switch after Apples price drop. I was getting very comfortable with my logic express 7.2 and was able to find worthwhile work arounds to the issues I came across. The most important one being unable to record unable multiple midi instrument tracks to do instrument layering during live performance. I was able to overcome this by setting up a combi device/instrument in the global audio mixer window and routing this device through multiple instruments tracks and this worked like a charm.
Never thought I could afford Pro 7. Now the drastic price drop plus the 'main stage' addition convinced me to do the upgrade within 24 hrs! I didn't think twice. My only reason for thinking was if it was ahoax because it sounded too good to be true. It's almost like how apple were giving away free nano's becuase they needed to get rid of their stock before releasing the mew line! But in this case that theory doesn't apply either.
If apple is trying to drop their software price to make ppl buy their hardware, Apple really have their thinking caps on.
Interesting how Logic was second in price tag to Cubase. (Nuendo is a world of its own. I won't pay $3K for all that video stuff I'll never use) - And now Apple adds a whole bunch of stuff to Logic making it 3 times better than Cubase and slashes the price to almost a 3rd! What a move to make the competitors pull their hair off!
Just got my Studio 8 upgrade (to Logic Express 7.2). Installed the core app and skipped on the logic content and jam packs. Once I verify the app is working I will re-run the installation to install the almost 40GB worth of Logic Content (3 dvds) and Jam Packs (another 3 dvds) on my external FW800 Lacie 500GB drive.
I'm using macbookpro 15" 2.2 C2D with 4GB RAM.
I was a cubase SX3 user for an year and decide to switch after Apples price drop. I was getting very comfortable with my logic express 7.2 and was able to find worthwhile work arounds to the issues I came across. The most important one being unable to record unable multiple midi instrument tracks to do instrument layering during live performance. I was able to overcome this by setting up a combi device/instrument in the global audio mixer window and routing this device through multiple instruments tracks and this worked like a charm.
Never thought I could afford Pro 7. Now the drastic price drop plus the 'main stage' addition convinced me to do the upgrade within 24 hrs! I didn't think twice. My only reason for thinking was if it was ahoax because it sounded too good to be true. It's almost like how apple were giving away free nano's becuase they needed to get rid of their stock before releasing the mew line! But in this case that theory doesn't apply either.
If apple is trying to drop their software price to make ppl buy their hardware, Apple really have their thinking caps on.
Interesting how Logic was second in price tag to Cubase. (Nuendo is a world of its own. I won't pay $3K for all that video stuff I'll never use) - And now Apple adds a whole bunch of stuff to Logic making it 3 times better than Cubase and slashes the price to almost a 3rd! What a move to make the competitors pull their hair off!
I just got it. I did a one 2 one session this morning, and I was hooked. I'm installing now... it's a loooooong install process. Which is a good thing b/c there's so much stuff there. 
It's telling me that there's 2 hrs and 17 minutes left. And this is on a Mac Pro 8-core machine!
Not complaining. I can't wait until it's done.
It's telling me that there's 2 hrs and 17 minutes left
. And this is on a Mac Pro 8-core machine!Not complaining. I can't wait until it's done.
Has anyone who bought Logic after Aug 1 been able to get their free upgrade to Logic Studio yet? The page says "come back Sep 26" yet there's no information there.
Has anyone who bought Logic after Aug 1 been able to get their free upgrade to Logic Studio yet? The page says "come back Sep 26" yet there's no information there.
http://www.apple.com/logicstudio/uptodate/
This gets you to the form. I faxed mine in a couple days ago, but haven't heard anything yet.
Hmm looks like it's on the US site but not the Canadian site. I'm on the phone with em right now to see what the deal is. Seems ridiculous that you have to send in mail/fax instead of just doing it over the phone.
Or better yet, just let us do it online. You would think (hope) they could figure out how to do that one.
Yep, having to fill out a form is preposterous. Especially since I bought it from the Apple store. The service rep I spoke to confirmed that thee form is valid for Canadians and she also sent me a copy of my invoice, so I faxed everything off and have fingers crossed.
Wong, my friend
I am sitting here in my studio with Logic 8 running on OS X 10.4.8 JaS install on non 'apple' hardware.I could build myself a 'real' Mac Pro... dual Xeon motherboard, dual Xeon quad core cpu's, ECC Buffered RAM etc... it would probs cost more than a Mac Pro tho!
Moving to intel hardware, then scraping their seemingly unbreakable piracy protection would seem to be at best not on the defensive side and at the worst utter suicide....but...I'm sure apple know what they are doing I guess!
God what a nightmare. I called Apple yesterday because I had faxed the form a week ago, and they have no record of it. So I faxed it again yesterday morning and called today and they have no record of it. How useless can one department be? I'm particularly concerned because the offer expires tomorrow. Nevermind the poor Canadians who didn't think to look on the US site for the form, and are still waiting for instructions on what to do.
Dongles.....
Umm.... I am 99% sure they have managed to get around the dongle protection in the previous release of Logic Pro. (Someone was experimenting with substituting specific cracked files from an installation of Logic Express 7.2 into a Logic Pro 7.2 installation to bypass dongle checking, for one thing.)
There's no reason a dongle protection scheme is "unbreakable". Someone with enough knowledge simply has to go into the original app and rip out the code that talks to the dongle, or insert a line to bypass that part of the software, returning a false indicator that it passed the dongle-check.
Autodesk has done this for YEARS with AutoCAD on the PC - yet every time a new AutoCAD is released, a cracked, dongle-free version hits the net within weeks.
The whole dongle thing is just a "false sense of security", because the companies selling the dongles and licensing their protection scheme push the fact that their key itself is so tamper-resistant, etc. etc. It might be true it's nearly impossible to hack the dongle itself to reverse-engineer it on some generic flash memory stick or something -- but that's the wrong way of attacking the problem, if you're a hacker.
Umm.... I am 99% sure they have managed to get around the dongle protection in the previous release of Logic Pro. (Someone was experimenting with substituting specific cracked files from an installation of Logic Express 7.2 into a Logic Pro 7.2 installation to bypass dongle checking, for one thing.)
There's no reason a dongle protection scheme is "unbreakable". Someone with enough knowledge simply has to go into the original app and rip out the code that talks to the dongle, or insert a line to bypass that part of the software, returning a false indicator that it passed the dongle-check.
Autodesk has done this for YEARS with AutoCAD on the PC - yet every time a new AutoCAD is released, a cracked, dongle-free version hits the net within weeks.
The whole dongle thing is just a "false sense of security", because the companies selling the dongles and licensing their protection scheme push the fact that their key itself is so tamper-resistant, etc. etc. It might be true it's nearly impossible to hack the dongle itself to reverse-engineer it on some generic flash memory stick or something -- but that's the wrong way of attacking the problem, if you're a hacker.