Usually you can't return software, but you can exchange it for the same.
Try this route. Maybe you can exchange Logic Express with the new Logic Pro.
Especially when your purchase was close to the release of the new software.
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Logic Pro 9 ($199.99) and MainStage 2 ($29.99) Debut in Mac App Store
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Usually you can't return software, but you can exchange it for the same.
Try this route. Maybe you can exchange Logic Express with the new Logic Pro.
Especially when your purchase was close to the release of the new software.
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Fantastic deal for an excellent program. $200 is peanuts for a full featured music program like this.
Fantastic deal for an excellent program. $200 is peanuts for a full featured music program like this.
OMG it's too easy to use and not expensive, so it's not professional enough!
- professional troll would say
And yeah I am winking at you.
returning the winkWaveburner
This is my only concern. I just bought an upgrade box about a month ago, and I'm glad I did. Waveburner is an amazing product that is worth 200 by itself (or more) for anyone who does mastering. I hope they either make this available in the app store, or add more mastering/burning capabilities directly into Logic (multiple track burning, fades and transitions between tracks, DDP export, etc.).
I was hoping for Logic X, but this is an amazing deal. Any pro audio person should have no reason not to buy Logic now. And the app store is the best way to get software. Don't know why people are crying about that. You loose no capabilities (save waveburner and soundtrack pro) and all your samples are already backed up on Apples servers (shouldn't we all be backing up our drives anyway?). And on a decent internet connection, it will probably install as quickly as 7 DVDs would.
This is my only concern. I just bought an upgrade box about a month ago, and I'm glad I did. Waveburner is an amazing product that is worth 200 by itself (or more) for anyone who does mastering. I hope they either make this available in the app store, or add more mastering/burning capabilities directly into Logic (multiple track burning, fades and transitions between tracks, DDP export, etc.).
I was hoping for Logic X, but this is an amazing deal. Any pro audio person should have no reason not to buy Logic now. And the app store is the best way to get software. Don't know why people are crying about that. You loose no capabilities (save waveburner and soundtrack pro) and all your samples are already backed up on Apples servers (shouldn't we all be backing up our drives anyway?). And on a decent internet connection, it will probably install as quickly as 7 DVDs would.
I remember paying the same for a 40 MB hard drive. of course back then my OS' and most of my apps were calculated in KB of space used...
Exactly. The point about the app store is that there are no more "upgrade" prices. You pay each time a new version comes out. So it will balance out in time... In fact, it may very well become more expensive over the duration that you retain a license to run the software.
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I'm not mad at the price and I've been using logic longer than forever! The more people that start using it means more development $$$ and guaranteed future releases. Btw... I don't believe for one second that the logic team will ever pull a finalcutprox when logic x is finally released.
I'm not mad at the price and I've been using logic longer than forever! The more people that start using it means more development $$$ and guaranteed future releases. Btw... I don't believe for one second that the logic team will ever pull a finalcutprox when logic x is finally released.
ok now that logic 9 is on the app store, when apple releases logic X will it be an upgrade on the mac app store or will they take down 9 and then put up 10 making you have to pay again if you bought logic 9. if its the first and you get the upgrade free then this is a great price and it would be great getting it now. the latter is whats causing me to hold off until logic x is out to see.
So you don't like the idea of paying $200 now and $200 again when the next version comes out? Before today it was $500 now and $200 again when the next version comes out. Seems like a good deal to me.
So you don't like the idea of paying $200 now and $200 again when the next version comes out? Before today it was $500 now and $200 again when the next version comes out. Seems like a good deal to me.
only I'm a college student starting audio production and recording and will use it for my classes and such. i have been saving for it but i would prefer not to pay twice. it is still is a good deal though.
my school has an iMac music lab which all have logic pro on them so i can wait
This move seems to indicate so..
Dunno... It may, of course, mean they're not going to release Logic 10 any time soon. But it could also possibly... maybe... at a stretch... mean that they learned from all the FCPX madness and want to release Logic X as a separate app, rather than an "upgrade." Mind you, it's hard to imagine somehow that they'll come up with as dramatic a departure/innovation for Logic X as they did for FCPX. But honestly, I'd kind of welcome it if they did. After all, other than Live (maybe), there hasn't been a truly innovative piece of music composition software released for ages (at least not on the big, bad, ugly commercial market). Everybody has basically stuck with the tried and true DAW approach (zzzzzz). It would be nice to see a new version of Logic, but if it's a dramatic departure from Logic 9, then it stands to reason that they'd keep Logic 9 available as well, and at a cheap price, so people can afford both.
Just asking - does the app store have a download manager so that you'll get optimum throughput and if there's a network error it will continue at the last good part of the download?
Restarting a multi-GB download every time there's a network hiccup is so '80s.
Does anyone know if this includes all the extra content from Logic Studio? Apple says 19 GB of extra content but it seems like Logic Studio had a good deal more.
From Wikipedia:
9GB to install all applications and required content
Additional 38GB to install all optional content (large content packages can be installed on separate disk):
- 10GB for Jam Pack collections
- 16GB for sound effects
- 6GB for surround music beds
- 6GB for other optional content
I believe so.
From Wikipedia:
9GB to install all applications and required content
Additional 38GB to install all optional content (large content packages can be installed on separate disk):
- 10GB for Jam Pack collections
- 16GB for sound effects
- 6GB for surround music beds
- 6GB for other optional content
I believe so.
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Digital downloads is the future, or frankly it's the now. Yes, you might have to wait awhile for the bigger apps to download. Compared to traveling to a store this is hardly a nuisance though. It's also friendlier on the environment as the moving of goods around the world has a huge carbon footprint.
The software also appears to get cheaper. No need to burn backups either as you can redownload the app when-, and wherever you want to.
ScottishCaptain said:
Digital downloads is the future, or frankly it's the now. Yes, you might have to wait awhile for the bigger apps to download. Compared to traveling to a store this is hardly a nuisance though. It's also friendlier on the environment as the moving of goods around the world has a huge carbon footprint.
The software also appears to get cheaper. No need to burn backups either as you can redownload the app when-, and wherever you want to.
So I'm guessing you no longer get the other software that was bundled together when you got the discs. Like Compressor, Soundtrack Pro, and Wave burner (and all of the extra content for those programs).
I was this close to buying Logic Pro a couple months ago for a future app project but held off since it was a significant chunk of change; I'm primarily an illustrator/art guy but ended up being the music/sfx guy, too. Seeing it now for $199 comparatively is a complete impulse buy for me, which I'll be doing as soon as I hit "Submit Reply"
But as others have mentioned.... I wonder how close Logic Pro 10 is, now... and what *that* upgrade price will be.
But as others have mentioned.... I wonder how close Logic Pro 10 is, now... and what *that* upgrade price will be.
I have no idea when we'll see Logic Pro X, but I can pretty much guarantee the "upgrade" price will be $199.
I have no idea when we'll see Logic Pro X, but I can pretty much guarantee the "upgrade" price will be $199.
You know... I can live with that, too
I was this close to buying Logic Pro a couple months ago for a future app project but held off since it was a significant chunk of change; I'm primarily an illustrator/art guy but ended up being the music/sfx guy, too. Seeing it now for $199 comparatively is a complete impulse buy for me, which I'll be doing as soon as I hit "Submit Reply"
Wasn't it always $199? I think Studio was the $500 version