This could be because the program was originally a windows program? Logic has been around a long time:
http://logic-users.org/
Indeed - I started on Logic 4 in Windows.
For the people saying that Pro Tools is more Mac like- I couldn't disagree more. Pro Tools looks like a crappy Windows 95 sort of interface. Even the latest version. And the 'open' and 'save' etc. boxes with Logic are EXACTLY the same ones as Final Cut Pro. The 'pro Mac' sort of look. Among other things.
When I say Pro Tools is more Mac-like, I'm talking about so much more than just buttons and boxes. It's the whole ethos; the whole experience. Think about what Apple are famous for. While other people keep adding features, thinking that "more features = more value", Apple tread a different path: they think about the actual experience of using the program. Logic is the opposite of the normal Apple philosophy: bulging with features, but bloated and often unnecessarily complex. Pro Tools feels like people have sat down and beaten their brains out to find the simplest way of doing something. Logic feels like they've sat down and gone "let's add more stuff!".
Not that it's what I was talking about, but I do also think that the basic look and feel of PT is more mac-like too (er... menus in the window title-bars?). I love Logic, I use it every day but as I said before, I also curse it every day. Had it been designed from scratch by Apple there is simply no way it would work anything like it does - for better or worse.
Pro Tools' main focus is hard drive recording. And it is perhaps the best at this. Logic's focus has been and is music creation and midi sequencing. Though midi is getting better on the Pro Tools side, and of course Logic can do all things audio.
I respectfully disagree that Logic can do all things audio. I am typing this reply in between loading up Melodyne and Pro Tools so that I can import audio and do stuff that Logic can't. If Logic did all things audio, it would save me so much time! Also, what it does do in audio, it generally does in a slower less intuitive way - all those little details that Apple would have worked at had it been their own app.
So there is an overlap today on what these programs can do. But hasn't always been this way (Logic vs. Pro Tools). Who here remembers when Pro Tools was considering dropping midi altogether? That wasn't so long ago.
Actually, it's the other way round - there was no MIDI at all in Pro Tools until about 5 years ago. Since they added it, they have only kept increasing its' capability. It is still nowhere near Logic, but it is probably closer to Logic on MIDI than Logic is on audio.
It's clear that Pro Tools has been feeling the heat from Logic. They are bragging about a new sampler to be included. (Which Logic already has). And same for Digital Performer: they were feeling the heat, and recently released all sorts of new synths and such with their latest version, to compare with Logic's included stuff.
Fair point - PT does feel the heat from Logic's huge wealth of included stuff. But I believe Logic feels the heat from Pro Tools' user experience.
Logic is bigger in the audio world that most of you think.
I don't think anyone's doubting how big it is. The audio world is full of people using Logic. But most of them enjoy a good bitch about it.
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