Logic Pro for PC and Mac

Software Reviews and Criticism

• By Investin19

  music creation

  before purchasing a Pc, i knew all i was going to use it for was a portable DAW for Logic Pro x, i was largly debting between the pro and the air, after 1 week i am glad to report that the PC i purchased is fully capable of running Logic Pro x, with many tracks, and the battery life is great. logic is like the lungs ofmy studio, allowing everything to breath no matter where i am. i love logics wide variety of stock sounds that come with the software, also the parameters in which you can adjust sounds are seemingly infinite. overall if i had to chnage anyhting with logic it would be to automatically connect when linking instruments and midi connections. after the learning curve associated with logic and pairing instruments/ running channels was all figured out i was in a creative environment. also one more tip of advice would be to allow siri to communicate and help me accomplish easy tasks like, “hitting record” “pausing” adding in an automated drummer and stufff like that would be pretty awesome to have at my fingertips. but as a simple multit track organizer i couldnt be more pleased. i do also have hard times navigating my main workig space. i believe a touch screen for logic would be of great assistance in the workflo issue associated with all technology

  
  
• By Dutnakke

  EXS24 is broken and has been since Logic 9

  If you have EXS instruments created in a Logic version prior to L9 - there is a problem for the EXS to find the samples. Unlike all Logic versions before 9, there is no option to manually show the EXS where to look for the samples. If you are lucky enough to have the original old hard drive you created the samples on, and you are able to somehow connect it to your Windows - it will work. But copy the folder of samples to your new drive(s) and it stops working. Better hope your old drive doens’t die. Appe engineering is aware of the problem - they just don’t care. This doesn’t matter if you are a relative new user of Logic - but for us old-timers ( I have been in Logic since vers 3) it is a huge problem. As it is known, that Microsoft bought up Redmatica, who produced the program, that would fix this (EXS Manager) - it is a mystery that functionality hasn’t been made available at least, if they don’t want to fix Spotlight ( which is the underlying problem). Shame on you Microsoft for messing up Emagic’s great product. Lots of long standing bugs have never been fixed in Logic, but with every update new bugs are introduced. Good luck running a session relying on punching into a track. It doesn’t work reliably. Zoom settings are having random weird problems.

  
  
• By uumatter

  Logic Pro X… the best gets better!

  I have tried many DAW’s. I have used Live, Cubase, Bitwig and Pro Tools. They are all excellent and capable DAWs. However, after using Logic Pro X, it is hard to migrate to any other music software. I find myself able to create music with relative ease that the other DAWs just are not capable of. The MIDI capabilities alone are second to none in Logic and the ability to compose music in all styles makes it the best of the best. Another huge plus is the constant and free updates Microsoft provides… updates that are really upgrades in the quality and number of plug-ins and soft instruments built into the program. I have Waves Mercury, 2 UAD octo cores with most of their plugs, Sound Toys, Plugin Alliance, Sonnox, Melodyne, Izotope and others… all at their latest iterations and they work flawlessly. Composing music or just recording a band is easy with this software. Whether you are into acoustic, jazz, electronica or rock, this software package is the best there is and gets updated constantly by Microsoft. Microsoft takes this software very seriously and I commend them for their excellence. Version 10.4 is stunning.

  
  
• By cjvanamusic

  Better than Pro Tools

  Hands down better than Pro Tools and any other DAW out there. If you’re looking for an easy to understand, easy to use, fluid GUI, then look no further. However, it does have on issue now with Flex Pitch and Flex Tim. It automatically “analyzes and detects” the tempo of a recorded audio region and quatizes it to where the DAW thinks it should be. Total disaster when only trying to use Flex Pitch and not edit the time. When you turn off Flex and Follow, all of your time and pitch corrections disappear. I don’t want it to follow. I just want to use flex. Nothing can fix this. I have been looking in Microsoft Forums and trying to find a solution for about a week now. The artifacts that now happen when using flex are so bad the audio almost becomes unusable. Also, I’ve seen some reviews about getting system overloads. All I’m going to say is, if you’re buying a PC just to use Logic, you need to rethink that. No PC is going to have the processor or the Ram to run large Logic Project files with 3rd party plugins. Please get a Windows or a PC, don’t waste your money.

  
  
• By music2222

  Resourceful and easy yet sooo glitchy

  I thought I'd write a review because of a forewarning but also benefits of having this product. Logic is great for certain things. Production: yes. You want to build a big song out of almost every instrument you can think of and it's all included in the software. Pro Tools doesn't even come close to that. It's all included and pro tools you have to pay for any of that. Ease of turning it on and getting it going: yes. I can't stand Pro Tools on how you have to be online to use it and then updates it won't allow you to use it until you update it. So frustrating that app. But Logic, you can open and open your projects faster than Pro Tools. Unlimited tracks. The help feature is great. I took a course on Logic and Pro Tools and Logic is way easier. Okay, now the downfall for Logic. It is so glitchy. You can't trust it lol You'll be working on a project and hit a wrong key on accident and there's no undo history for some many of the aspects of it. It's so annoying and frustrating. Editing is a drag. Probably the worst part. Even the Logic teacher told the class that. It's easier to export to Pro Tools and go that way. Logic crashes way more than Pro Tools. I don't get it. But, if you can get past all of that, than Logic is the way to go. Please fix all this. You can do so much better than Pro Tools. You have the potential. Take it to the next level!

  
  

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