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Emagic Logic Pro (Macintosh)

Record audio and MIDI. Includes comprehensive collection of software instruments.

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"Logic is a great program for beginners and pros alike." submitted July 30, 2004

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Music Style: Electro-Industrial and Techno or electronic or whatever they call it these days. My wife works with Acoustic, Pop and Alternati
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Sound: I've been using logic for years and the software synths that are bundled with the current version are much easier to use than many stand alone products I have tried to use in the past. I haven't had any trouble with creating arrangements of wholly software based music on my Dual 1GHz G4 with 768MB Ram. I haven't really noticed a defined sound that Logic has. I've worked with everything from Industrial to Acoustic and I've always been able to flesh out the overall sound however I wanted. Feature: For me, the built in effects plug-ins have virtually put my hardware processors out to pasture. In the past I used to run a few plug-ins and add effects track by track with my hardware processors, but now I'm using the software plug-ins almost all the time. You really can't compete with simultaneous processing on every channel via hardware with a smaller budget like mine. Quality: I remember back in the day of Logic 3.5 thru 4.7. When the program crashed, you were presented with a save dialog box, which didn't always work. But it saved hours of work on occasion. Logic in it's fully OSX-ish glory runs as solid as I could imagine. Looking back on OS9. It's time to move on. The sheer stability of OSX has completely erased the hours of hair pulling (and re-booting) that I've done in the past. Using Logic on tour used to be a big problem for me. My Wife's iBook G3 333MHz with it's little 5400rpm HD could never run my files unless I stripped OS9 down to it's bare bones and offered the gods of data a goat or two. With Logic Pro 6, my new PowerBook can handle everything I throw at it and more. That sure beats dragging aournd the Beast (UMAX S900 w/ G3 300MHz, 200MB RAM, 3 Hard Drives and the old reliable AudioWerk8 Card). Value: $2500 worth of goodies in a $1000 package. You can't beat that. Unless of course you think that all software should be free. Manufacturer Support: I'll rate this 10 out of 10. I used emagic's tech support once in 1998. I haven't had a problem since then. I had emailed their tech support and got a response withing 24 hours and which included a detailed solution to my problem and some other tips to related problems I have yet to experience. The Wow Factor: It's been getting better every year. Except for that um, year or two it wouldn't run in OSX. The fully automated features are great. Overall: I'll be satisfied with Logic for as long as emagic keeps making it. I've shopped around for other products in the past, but I keep coming back to Logic. It works equally well for the intermediate level as it does for the pro level and the $1000 package has enough goodies in it to keep you knob twiddling needs under control. Speaking of plug-ins such as the ES2. Many software synths try to emulate hardware to the point of utter frustration for your mouse. Emagic's plug-ins are designed from the ground up to be easy to use in a virtual environment and doesn't have button b next to knob a just because it was easier to use physically.
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"OSX+hardware audio yes, OS9+PODxt NO" submitted May 8, 2004

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Sound: The sound is really fantastic, if it were stable on my computer I would love it forever! Feature: Again, the plug-ins sound really great to me, rich warm and very flexible while still being quite easy for the recording student to sound very good. Quality: Here I give a 3 because I cannot possible get Logic to run on either of my systems in OS9. I've tried it on my G3/900/640mb ibook that has NEVER frozen before and even when using a 7200rpm drive for audio, Logic freezes OS9 every time. I tried my G4/800/1GB exactly the same. This is for me dissappointing as I use a PODxt to record, (no osx drivers.) On the up side, Logic works Perfectly! in OSX, even on my ibook, and is fantastic for midi sequencing and sync with no hardware beyond a midi interface! Value: I bought logic half for advanced midi sequencing, half for audio multitracking. I knew it might not run well on my g3, but I certainly expected it to run on my G4, which had been running Logic 4.7 until last week when I upgraded to 6.0. Sadly I was mistaken, and it has cost me much of my patiience and really interrupted my ability to just play music! Manufacturer Support: I don't plan to waste much more time trying so solve LA/OS9's issues, I'll probably either keep it for midi+B3 ect. plugins/return it/sell it and go for Cubase SX/Acid/Reason for my audio needs on PC, which would be a pity as I love LA's filters and plugins. The Wow Factor: Everyone else seems to want it, Eminem, Autuchre, NIN, if I was rich too I would use it, but right now I just need something that works without buying a whole bunch of gear or a brand new expensive (g5) computer just to run it! Also, I am saddened that it is only Apple now, and cannot but think this may just further polarize the already unfortunately great divide between the machines. Personally I like and use both and wish there was more overlap, ala Reason, Reaktor, ect. Overall: I love the midi editing, the plugins, the clean sleek look, but have spent way too many hours just trying to get the basics to work in OS9. I would probably be much happier if I had a G5 to run it on as Jobs advertized.
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