The Logic 7 Shaft. Options

[Igotsoul4u]

I purchased Logic 6 platinum five weeks ago. You would think that if an upgrade came out within several weeks of the original purchase date, a free or heavily discounted update would be available. Think again. All must pay the upgrade no questions asked. I am pretty sure this is an Apple influence. Nonetheless, I hate you apple and logic. I barely make any money and spent my last dime to buy your brand new program. Why should it cost me $1300 to get the current software. Well anyway...Steve Jobs, I hope the ferrari you buy with all the money you ripped off from us poor recent logic 6 purchasers gets demolished by an apple truck.

[Drainland]

Hi everyone,

somehow I see the upgrade from Logic 6 plat to pro more of a rip off in the sense that it was a stop gap when they knew pro 7 was in development and on the horizon anyway. I feel like Apple sat there and thought how they could get 2 lots of upgrade money out of users for the price of one. No one in their right mind wouldn't have fancied the upgreade from 6 plat to pro to get all those plug-ins. I jumped at the idea. But paying out the £200 for this doesn't seem as worth while to me. For a start although the new plug ins sound nice - for me plug ins are great - but not the be all and end all of a recording system. But there doesn't seem to be anything as eye opening here as the "freeze" function was when it was introduced.

I asked sound technology about the differences between 6 and 7 and they said that essentially it was down to the plug-ins. My main concern was that the audio quality or midi resolution wasn't any better and they said no. I know there are a few other enhancments here and there which sound quite cool, but considering I would probably have to upgrade from my 1Ghz G4 to run the plugs properly I think I'll wait til Logic 8 and get the upgrade then. I'm also still on OSX 10.2.8 which I like and I don't fancy all the mess around upgrading the OS either. So by the time Logic 8 is out I'll probably need to buy a new Mac by then anyway. And hopefully I won't have to pay out anymore for the upgrade than I would now, like Logic 5 users don't have to pay anymore than 6 users. And maybe Logic 8 might really have something going for it to make me excited!

I understand the desire to automatically upgrade your software when something new comes out, but from my point of view I come from the multitrack tape and mixer era where upgrading wasn't an option. Logic Pro 6, as it stands, is an amazing recording system that I could have once only dreamed of owning when I first started recording 20 years ago. If I can't get good results using that at the heart of my recording set-up, then there is something wrong we with my ability to produce music.

I don't have a problem paying out the £200, constantly forking out money for this that or the other goes hand in hand with this rather expensive hobby. But for me it's not a "must have" and is not worth the hassle it will be for me - especially looking at this from the point of view that I've only just got my head around logic 6!

Let's all keep out fingers crossed for Logic 8!

(sorry for long post!)