Any Logic 7 Reviews? Options

[lando64]

Hi, I'm Luca from Italy .
This is my simple review to help those who, like me before, want to buy and use Logic Pro 7 without discussing about problems of upgrade and prices.
I'm not a professional user, I wish ... : I own ProTools LE on Digi002 and Cubase SX 3 using on a G5 Dual 2GHz.
I've just bought Logic Pro 7 : I've found in L7 the best integration with Apple hardware ever !
It's a complete system that gives you the power of making music user and Mac friendly with a real arsenal of plug-ins, effects and loops right out of the box: I dont know If that was on L6: if it was, I understand the "incazzatura" of users.
All the plug-ins works well: not only Logic plug-ins: Atmoshere, Stylus, Sampletank, NI Complete too. It works with Digi 002 via Core Audio : Pro Tools LE 6.4 use more CPU to do the same thing with the same plug-ins.
I consider it a good but not cheap software.
Yes, Digidesign support remains the better butwe have to remember that Logic works only on Mac: is it good or is it bad for us ?
With this provocative answer I say ciao to all mac music maker, professional and not .

This post has been edited by lando64: Wed 10 Nov 2004, 16:15

[sonicrabbit]

I believe that the $2799 support that some of you are looking at is meant for corporations to buy for their own technical support people to get direct accesses and not a user support package. There is a users support page for Logic on the Apple site.
http://www.apple.com/support/logic/
Either way, good luck. I'm sorry to say, Apple support sucks. I've met people that work for their tech support phone lines that have never owned a mac and know hardly anything about computers at all. They contract out their regular phone support to temp agencies so they don't have to pay benefits. At the end of a year they review them and can then choose to sign the person on as an apple employee who they have to offer benefits too, or let them go and ask the temp agency to send over more warm bodies. Most of the people I met got let go at the end of the year. These are people I've met at parties and while they may be nice to hang out with, I wouldn't ask them how to fix my mac, they would probably ask me.

I think Logic will eventually turn out to be a good app under apples care but the old Logic users are understandably upset. I can sympathize because I've been using and upgrading Cubase since it was an Atari program and now find it, after all these years, to be utterly unusable bloatware. Cubase.....more like Crashbase. It comes down to the indignation any loyal user of a program feels when forced to come to terms with the fact that loyalty is a human emotion and your feeling it for a product made by a corporation which itself is a money making entity incapable of returning that emotional.
For a long time I've been rooting for Apple to do well and I believe they make quality stuff, at least so far, but they are a company and they have a cold hard bottom line just like microsoft. Those who believe that this is the nature order of things expressing itself in all of its Darwinian glory are probably rich enough to afford a top of the line pro-tools set up and don't care to hear any of your petty whining. The rest of us will have to use something like Abelton (at least its stable), wait for apple to get Logic up and running right and put our hopes in the future of the open source movement to restore a sense of loyalty in something with farther reaching ambitions then how much money can be squeezed out of loyal customers.