Christian Henson at Crow Hill recently made a video critical of Logic Pro, pointing out ways that Logic is falling behind. He is a power-user, and most of us are not, but even so, I found his critique informative. I believe he's currently exploring Reaper as his new go-to DAW.
@Dr_J i guess there's no perfect DAW... I'm stuck on Logic Pro X (yes, 'that' old) ... and i probably will stay that way... the longer you work with the same tool(s), the better it feels !
Watched a bit of the video, but he, like a lot of folks, are in a waaaay different league than I am when it comes to Logic. Honestly, I probably don't use a good 95 percent of the features in Logic. It does what I need it to do and occassionally adds something new I add into my quiver - absolutely love Masterin Assistant. And. I paid for it a long time ago (quite a few times and many of those more than $199) so I'm going to keep on using it.
All I can say is, if it's falling behind, it's still way ahead of me.
@Dyl if I'm not mistaken, you took your time going from Garageband to Logic! @jgurner I mostly feel the same as you, although it was either this video or another one that said Apple only had about 10 active developers working on Logic. That's amazing that it's so few. That would seem to indicate that Apple is more about keeping Logic going rather than making dramatic improvements. If they really do fall behind, hopefully they can mobilize their resources and recommit to the project. I've really enjoyed using Logic over the years and wouldn't be crazy about switching.
I also turned to Logic Pro after sticking with GarageBand for most of my time spent recording digitally. I'm fairly comfortable with LP now, but I still only use a tiny fraction of its capabilities. It does everything I need and more, but there are still areas I'd like to see expanded and improved. I'm especially interested in Apple working toward expanding both instruments and generated vocals with AI. LP is a production tool and it must be made easier to get ideas down fast and production ready.
I'm still using GarageBand on my battered 8 year old MacBook (how is it still working?!?). Once it finally kicks the bucket and I have to buy a new computer, I'll force myself to finally upgrade to, and learn, a better DAW. Most folks seem to still hold Logic in high regard so I'll go with that unless something else really jumps out at me. I also just bought the art of mixing, as it is becoming increasing clear to me that I have no idea what I'm doing on that front and need to educate myself.
Been using Logic since 2007. Started with LogicExpress7, then graduated to LogicProX in 2017.
I've never been tech savvy so it was quite the learning curve. Indeed I'm still learning new things! Just the other day I discovered how to improve my masters using CAF for the pre-master, before stepping things down to make my wav and mp3 files. Now I'm busy burning all new masters. Sigh...
I took a serious look at Reaper awhile back, but it looks complicated and why change when I'm finally getting the hang of LogicProX?
My good friend Al Hughson uses Reaper and likes it very much. He gets some pretty great sounds out of it! If you have questions about it you might reach out to him.
I keep dithering about buying a Mac mini and running Logic Pro. New chips and software updates are always about to happen with Apple which means I keep waiting for the next big thing. I am not impressed with the latest updates to Logic Pro. It seems to be all about “Beat Making” and AI and the introduction of “Apple Creator Studio” makes decisions about purchases or subscriptions even harder.
I notice that not only is Reaper getting rave reviews but it can run on Linux. I shall see how far I get with Reaper before I decide.
