Apple today introduced Logic Pro 7 and Logic Express 7, the next major releases of its award-winning professional music creation and audio production software applications used by more than 200,000 musicians and audio engineers worldwide. At $999, Logic Pro 7 includes breakthrough new software instruments such as Sculpture, a component-modeling based synthesizer; UltraBeat, an innovative and powerful drum machine; and new plug-ins including Guitar Amp Pro, a full-featured guitar amplifier simulator. Along with over 100 workflow enhancements, new mastering plug-ins and support for Apple Loops, Logic Pro 7 debuts distributed audio processing, a revolutionary technology which allows audio pros to tap into a virtually unlimited number of Macs to expand available Digital Signal Processing (DSP) power.
Logic Express 7, a streamlined version of Logic, provides a basic set of professional tools for students, educators and advanced hobbyists at an affordable price of $299. Logic Express 7 and Logic Pro 7 both come with support for projects from GarageBand, Apple
Apple really Rocks in the Creative World.
Gee, Jack A,, how many degenerate brain cells did you waste on that bit of wisdom?
Lennon jr., that was a pretty harsh & uncalled for!! obviously we all know what apple is. but just because he states the obvious he sholdn’t be condemned for it.
Gee, Fred, someone pee in your Corn Flakes this morning?
What’s the difference between Logic, Reason, Protools, and Digital Performer?
These are the main music apps available for os x, correct?
Logic and Digital Performer were originally created as MIDI only apps, and have added audio support. Pro Tools was built from the ground up as an audio app, but later added MIDI support. While the MIDI features and flexibility in PT were originally a lot less than in Logic or DP, they are now enough for a lot of people. I’ve used all the apps (my old favourite MIDI app was Opcode’s Studio Vision Pro, but Opcode went out of business a while ago – the last OS they supported was 8.6).
I’ve found PT to meet my MIDI needs so far, but this new Logic Pro 7 bundle has a lot of new features, so manu in fact that it’s probably worth picking up. It also makes full use of Digidesign’s PT hardware (which I use daily).
Reason is a remarkable compositional app, combining samplers, drum machines, softsynths, and many other features, all for a great price!
And what’s the difference between GarageBand and Soundtrack? That’s never made much sense to me either…
Garageband is the App..
Soundtrack is kinda like.. Clipart.. for music.. it’s a whole bunch of tracks and samples that Apple offers you to use however you like…in addition to the hundreds and hundreds present in G-band
Soundtrack is a soundtrack tool for video editors with no music skill. Garage Band is more of a song editor for lone musicians (or bands who don’t mind recording one track at a time).
Garage Band has MIDI support; Soundtrack doesn’t. Soundtrack has Final Cut Pro/Express integration; Garage Band doesn’t.
Really, almost only thing they have in common is that they both support Apple Loops.
In Apple’s comparison chart of Logic Pro and Logic Express, it shows only Pro supporting “External Instruments” under the heading Select Software Instruments. Does anyone know what that is referring to?
Hey auslander, I’m still using Studio Vision Pro on an OS 9.2.2 partition. Still works as well as it ever did!
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auslander-
I’m quite surprised that you didn’t make more of an issue of Pro Tools being designed around a hardware interface (a potentially expensive one) versus Logic being built around a software interface (ie. software instruments). To me that would seem to be one of the main differences between Logic and Pro Tools.
Soundtrack…
Sum Yung Gai: said that Soundtrack (v1.2) cannot accept MIDI is dead wrong, upgrade your version.
Logic 7…
Support of Apple Loops is huge for people with large libraries of samples for Soundtrack or GarageBand. I can’t wait to pick this up.
i’m interested in creating my own digital music- is pro tools the app that i want? thanks-
paul
hi paul,
if you are doing a lot of drum loops and midid stuff, get logic. nothing beats it.
but if you are gonna do a lot of acoustic recording of voice and acoustic instruments, get protools, which comes with it’s own hardware interface. whereas if you want to record voice or acoustic stuff with logic, you will have to buy an extra hardware interface.
hello…
Wouldn’t the “hardware interface” for Logic be a *lot* cheaper than one for ProTools? I know you can get an audio input interface for Logic for only a couple hundred at the most. What would you be looking at all told for a ProTools setup?
Boo. Apple really screwed the consumer here. 9 months after anouncing Logic 6 Pro, a $999 product or $299 upgrade, they offer Logic 7 Pro and are forcing the adopters of 6 pro to pay the full upgrade. Sure 7 has new features, but the product was certainly in the works when 6 pro was annnounced. 6 pro in retrospect was a marketing ploy to squeeze more money out of Pro users.
I baught logic 6 Platnum last december, upgraded to logic 6 pro two months ago ($299) and here is logic 7 pro for another $299. That is $1600 of software in less than a year.
I’ve made my complaints to Apple Customer Relations already. They point out that its my option to upgrade… sure, but in a professional audio studio clients expect you to have the latest software installed. I’ve used other Pro software packages, including protools, and have never been subjected to two pay upgrades in less than a year.
Really shamefull. Boo.
Here’s a question. Did they fix the interface? Logic has one of the least intuitive interfaces I’ve ever seen. Period.
pissed logic user-
i would be pleased as punch to find out a software i used was upgraded that much
shtiner
Dennis:
The simplified explanation for the “External Instruments” feature: It allows you to use your external hardware synths as plugins within Logic.
Pissed Logic User:
For $999 (or whatever you would pay for the upgrade), not only do you get all the f**kin INCREDIBLE new Logic 7 goddies, you also get the all new version of WaveBurner OSX ! FYI. Also, if you have multiple Macs, the new distributed processing functionality is very cool indeed.
Twilightmoon: Yes you are absolutely correct. That is a huge difference cost-wise. My PT HD system cost me in the region of $18k (but it’s my line of business so it’s necessary for me to have it). Logic does use an internal buss system, but can also use high quality external interfaces (maybe a 002 perhaps..which supports up to 96k/24bit audio). I know Logic supports the Digi 192 and 96 interfaces of course.
I think this new version is a complete no-brainer for me. Just having an OSX version of Waveburner is amazing in itself.
You’re all aankers who couldn’t get their pathetic music heard if their lives depended on it.
Why you should be concerned about Apple and the future of Logic.
1.) Apple’s changing of the AU spec and implementation in Logic has caused problems for thousands of users. It has also, as in the case of Waves plugins, cost Logic users hundreds of dollars to update third party plugins so they will function in Logic Pro 7.
2.) Apple has ended free tech support for Logic. Tech support will now cost Logic Users $799 a year or $199 per issue.
3.) Apple’s upgrade policy is unfair. A user who is still on Logic 5.x or Logic 6 Platinum pays the same to update to Logic Pro 7 as a user who has paid for two updates to Logic Pro 6. Compounding the issue is Apple’s policy of not announcing a product in development or a estimated release date of said product. Professionals are smart not to purchase the first update of a software product because in every instance, regardless of the developer, that initial release has bugs and professionals cannot afford downtime. Taking these things into consideration, the professional user to left only a “window” in which he must guess when the product is sufficiently usable (ie no or little downtime) and when the next paid update of the product is so that he doesn’t waste hundreds of dollars
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