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Logic Pro and MainStage Headed to Mac App Store, Boxed Software Discontinued [Updated]

It's in the App Atore Already.

It's already in the app store listed price is $199....along with Mainstage 2 for $29 and perhaps the other apps as well.


In-App download for the extra content. Extra content is listed off as being 19GB, at least for Logic Pro only.
 
slithers1 said:
Logic X is going indie. It will feature 4-track cassette style recording with a brilliant sound emulation of your favorite cassette multitracks and you can even choose what brand of tape.

If users sell more than 10,000 copies of a track on iTunes, via iCloud, Logic will automatically upgrade you to the Adat pack. 48 tracks with harsh high end and 8 tracks dropping out of sync randomly throughout your session.

if you sell 100,000 copies you get upgraded to the, "I got a record deal" pack, which includes 96 tracks of 2" tape (that's 4 studer's!) the "virtual producer" pack that replays all the parts exactly how you didn't want them played and the "virtual A&R guy" who tells you your song sucks and it needs a stronger chorus and then takes 99% of your profits from iTunes and gives to some guy you'll never meet to spend it on a hookers and blow.
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that's 4 studer's!

I'm laughing so hard I'm coughing
 
I was literally on the verge of buying the Logic Studio from Amazon this week, because I just couldn't wait any longer for an update. (I did notice that the Amazon product title said [Old Version] the past couple days, so I knew something was up.)

Glad I waited...I think. Now on to the Mac App Store.
 
Logic now sells for $199 on App Store.

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Logic Pro 9 is a complete set of creative tools for any musician who wants to write, record, edit, and mix music. It comes with a massive collection of instruments, effects, and Apple Loops, making it easy to get amazing sounds and create amazing-sounding songs.

Made for musicians
• Get up and rolling fast with production-ready templates and one-step track setup
• Work fast with easy access to all tools and editing areas using a single-window interface
• Enhance your songs with over 15,000 Apple Loops in a wide range of instruments and genres

Plug-ins & sounds
• 40 built-in instruments including synths, vintage keyboards, a drum machine, sampler, and more
• 80 effects including reverbs, delays, EQs, dynamics, amps, stompboxes, and more
• Over 1700 sampled instruments for a rich variety of acoustic and electronic sounds
• 4500 professionally crafted settings to fuel your creativity

The ideal writing studio
• Always find the audio files and sounds you need using integrated content browsers
• Create your own sampler instruments instantly from any audio in your project
• Produce lead sheets or fully ornamented scores using a comprehensive set of notation tools
• Make composing a movie score easier than ever with advanced music-for-picture features

The ultimate way to record
• Record and seamlessly punch in and out of one or multiple tracks
• Keep takes and overdubs organized and easy to manage with take folders
• Document important details from musicians to microphones with Project and Track notes
• Use Beat Mapping to record without a click track and then conform to bars and beats later

Powerful tools for creative editing
• Manipulate the timing and tempo of any recording with ease using Flex Time features
• Build comps by selecting the best parts of each take using Quick Swipe Comping
• Correct the timing of audio recordings as easily as you do with MIDI using Audio Quantize
• Quickly render effects for a single region or an entire track using Bounce-in-Place
• Replace or double less-than-perfect drum tracks with just a few clicks using Drum Replacer
• Easily transfer setups and track content between projects using Selective Track Import
• Quickly apply fades and crossfades using region-based Click Zones
• Varispeed makes it simple to slow down or speed up an entire multitrack project

Pro mixing
• Create huge projects using up to 255 audio, software instrument, and auxiliary channels
• Get creative with up to 15 plug-in inserts and 8 sends per channel
• Record automation for any channel strip or plug-in parameter on the fly
• Graphically view and edit automation for one or multiple parameters simultaneously
• Record, edit, and mix your projects in full surround, with up to 7.1 channels
• Use up to 32 Track Groups to more easily control multiple drum, vocal, or other related tracks

Seamless compatibility
• Open GarageBand projects directly in Logic Pro
• Expand your instrument and effects library with any Audio Units compatible plug-in
• Use ReWire enabled applications like Reason and Live with Logic Pro
• Choose the audio interface that’s best for you, using any OS X Core Audio device
• Integrated third-party control surface support provides many options for hands-on control

Incredible performance
• 64-bit support facilitates more RAM access for big projects and massive sampler instruments
• Multicore audio engine automatically distributes processing across all cores in your Mac
• Freeze Tracks temporarily renders tracks to free processing power for more new tracks

System Requirements: 2GB of RAM (4GB recommended), display with 1280-by-768 resolution or higher, minimum 3.6GB of disk space. 19GB of optional content available via in-app download.

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Logic Pro 9 is a complete set of creative tools for any musician who wants to write, record, edit, and mix music. It comes with a massive collection of instruments, effects, and Apple Loops, making it easy to get amazing sounds and create amazing-sounding songs.

Made for musicians
• Get up and rolling fast with production-ready templates and one-step track setup
• Work fast with easy access to all tools and editing areas using a single-window interface
• Enhance your songs with over 15,000 Apple Loops in a wide range of instruments and genres

Plug-ins & sounds
• 40 built-in instruments including synths, vintage keyboards, a drum machine, sampler, and more
• 80 effects including reverbs, delays, EQs, dynamics, amps, stompboxes, and more
• Over 1700 sampled instruments for a rich variety of acoustic and electronic sounds
• 4500 professionally crafted settings to fuel your creativity

The ideal writing studio
• Always find the audio files and sounds you need using integrated content browsers
• Create your own sampler instruments instantly from any audio in your project
• Produce lead sheets or fully ornamented scores using a comprehensive set of notation tools
• Make composing a movie score easier than ever with advanced music-for-picture features

The ultimate way to record
• Record and seamlessly punch in and out of one or multiple tracks
• Keep takes and overdubs organized and easy to manage with take folders
• Document important details from musicians to microphones with Project and Track notes
• Use Beat Mapping to record without a click track and then conform to bars and beats later

Powerful tools for creative editing
• Manipulate the timing and tempo of any recording with ease using Flex Time features
• Build comps by selecting the best parts of each take using Quick Swipe Comping
• Correct the timing of audio recordings as easily as you do with MIDI using Audio Quantize
• Quickly render effects for a single region or an entire track using Bounce-in-Place
• Replace or double less-than-perfect drum tracks with just a few clicks using Drum Replacer
• Easily transfer setups and track content between projects using Selective Track Import
• Quickly apply fades and crossfades using region-based Click Zones
• Varispeed makes it simple to slow down or speed up an entire multitrack project

Pro mixing
• Create huge projects using up to 255 audio, software instrument, and auxiliary channels
• Get creative with up to 15 plug-in inserts and 8 sends per channel
• Record automation for any channel strip or plug-in parameter on the fly
• Graphically view and edit automation for one or multiple parameters simultaneously
• Record, edit, and mix your projects in full surround, with up to 7.1 channels
• Use up to 32 Track Groups to more easily control multiple drum, vocal, or other related tracks

Seamless compatibility
• Open GarageBand projects directly in Logic Pro
• Expand your instrument and effects library with any Audio Units compatible plug-in
• Use ReWire enabled applications like Reason and Live with Logic Pro
• Choose the audio interface that’s best for you, using any OS X Core Audio device
• Integrated third-party control surface support provides many options for hands-on control

Incredible performance
• 64-bit support facilitates more RAM access for big projects and massive sampler instruments
• Multicore audio engine automatically distributes processing across all cores in your Mac
• Freeze Tracks temporarily renders tracks to free processing power for more new tracks

System Requirements: 2GB of RAM (4GB recommended), display with 1280-by-768 resolution or higher, minimum 3.6GB of disk space. 19GB of optional content available via in-app download.
 
This makes me wonder if Logic X is further off than I had hoped.

And what happens when Logic X releases? Is there any precedence yet for software having an upgrade path through the app store, as opposed to just buying the full version every time?
 
I knew this was going to happen... Out of sheer foresight I bought Logic Studio 9 boxed about a mont ago, which ended up just £124 with the education pricing. Apple aren't converting me to a ridiculous download.

Especially considering these DVD's mount up to 55GB.... My guess in this particular field is that the program will obviously be available on the Mac App Store (because its just half a GB), but the additional Jam Packs/Content will be available to purchase from the Apple Store website. This way, they can still discontinue the software in their retail stores, but make it available to those who really want them off the web.

There may even be a message suggesting that this extra content is available from the online store.
 
yadmonkey said:
This makes me wonder if Logic X is further off than I had hoped.

And what happens when Logic X releases? Is there any precedence yet for software having an upgrade path through the app store, as opposed to just buying the full version every time?
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Seriously, I want to buy pro (Credit card in hand)

But does that mean ill pay ANOTHER 200 for logic 10?!
 
I'm away from my Mac at the moment. Can anyone tell me if the Jam Packs are included for this price? Or are they separate purchases?
 
dacapo said:
I'm away from my Mac at the moment. Can anyone tell me if the Jam Packs are included for this price? Or are they separate purchases?
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19GB of additional in-app download so there is no way all of the Jampacks are included.
 
So basically they've just got Logic Pro to **** up and then Apple has totally removed themselves from the pro market. I know a lot of people who will be pissed off if Apple mess up Logic Pro.
 
I wouldn't have posted that if I didn't think so!!!!!

Lumeswell said:
lol - you really think that?

Pros start by looking at the specs first, and what they can do with it, and the shape and colour of the box last.
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Just like pros read for content, especially about improved performance. To be perfectly honest I actually do think some pros look at the box to determine if it is a pro level machine. For the most part I don't think pros have a grasp of the underlying technology to even evaluate a machine. The mentality is bigger must be better.
The truth is Apple is pulling out of the Pro software market. I understand it from a business perspective - I just wish they would not keep stringing everyone along and cashing in on the 'Pro' name they invested so heavily in.
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You have nothing to base that statement on. Apples till sells its profitable pro hardware and software. Just because a few FCP users grossly over reacted doesn't mean the app is any less of a Pro app. I'm not sure what these clowns where even expecting, Apple had to completely rewrite the app and eventually had to ship something. Now the have a new code base to build upon.
Logic users - I wish you the best of luck with the next update, and I really hope for your sake it isn't Garage Band Pro.
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You know I really tire of this ignorance. Just because an app borrows features from another does not imply that it is suddenly less of a pro app. The only proper way to evaluate any changes that might happen to Logic is to use it. Not for one day either but rather for several weeks to overcome muscle memory related to the old app.

I've seen this again an again with all sorts of users when an upgrade comes in. Something changes and the blame the app. That makes no sense at all in the first hour of the first day of use. A classic example is scrolling in Lion, break the muscle memory and adapt to the new method and find out that it does indeed work well.

This doesn't mean all design alterations are right for everybody. What it does mean is that knee jerk reactions are not always the right answer and in fact seldom are.
 
Pro - Plug-in

I noticed that they've added a new plugin.

The "Pro" mix buss plug-in that turns your track into a mushy pop-rock ballad that a lot of people seem to like, you just don't know any of them.

There's the Mutt preset which makes the song too slow and adds 12 part harmonies and the Cavallo preset which adds a Mandolin and shame.
 
How did they remove themselves from the "pro" market.

roadbloc said:
So basically they've just got Logic Pro to **** up and then Apple has totally removed themselves from the pro market. I know a lot of people who will be pissed off if Apple mess up Logic Pro.
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This is exactly what I was talking about earlier. Same app yet you come up with this asinine idea that it is no longer a pro app because it is available via app store. Do you really believe that most pros are using the jam packs?
 
djrod said:
"Apple doesn't care about pros" post in 3,2,1...
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If these people who post these things say Apple does not care about Pros with these apps. This proves they can see how these Apps are for Pro users. THis means these Apps are not for them (cause they can't see how they are for pro users). And they are better off sticking with the basic versions like Garageband.
 
Who's got the time to download 19 gigs of additional content???

Poor showing, Apple. Really poor.
 
Geez guys... Pro people do not use those sample packs.. they are crap compared to the real hi quality packs out there..

People who are saying this is making Logic less of a pro product than it was, have no idea or whatsoever...


This is great news.. !
 
wizard said:
This is exactly what I was talking about earlier. Same app yet you come up with this asinine idea that it is no longer a pro app because it is available via app store. Do you really believe that most pros are using the jam packs?
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I was on about when they release the next version. Version 10. Or X. App Store or no App Store, Logic Pro 9 is fine. What made you think I meant that just because it was going to the App Store it was no longer professional?
 
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