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Re: [Logic_Cafe] Re: The Good and the Bad
2005-01-23 by GAmoore@aol.com
I am a former beta tester for Emagic.
No offense to you. I am thinking of 8 years of interaction on the LUG with others however.
I never demanded anything.
"Demand" is to strong of a word. But I think it goes like this. A guy like f-erenc, for example, has a mixing business or something, and he wants some new feature. He has all his environments set up, and in some ways, an "easier way" of doing things would be a headache to have to re-work his existing things. Making it more user friendly is at the bottom of his list because he already mastered it. In fact, he might be making some good money consulting and setting up other people with Logic systems. There are a lot of people who buy logic and are stuck and pay to have people set them up or tutor them. Or there are other guys who sell books, like Orren, and are making their living from explaining how to use logic to desparate users on a global scale.
As a teacher of Music Technology I was always aware that it would be best
for Logic to be useful for beginners and as a professional
producer/composer I also wanted features useful for pro use.
Probably you had the most balanced approach then.
I think the problem is expecting logic to behave like other programs.
Why should it?
Because there are industry norms and overall software norms. It also makes it easier for people to learn the program or switch back and forth between several programs. I'll give you a non-musical example - the delete key deletes things on most programs - but in Excel if you select multiple cells and want to delete, you have to hit "control B". Well, thats confusing because you have to learn a non-standard thing.
Furthermore, an investment in Logic (or the others) is a major expense, and an even bigger investment in time to master, and larger investment if you have all your music stored in their file formats. You can't try out software then return it. So you go to a music store look at which box is the prettiest or which one the sales dude likes, and then you've made your life's choice.
Technically your right that it would be ideal to have all the software out there and know which one does which comon things and which not. But in practice, I think we all rely on each of the companies to cover all the main bases.
If you had started with Logic then tried Cubase or
Sonar you would probably be complaining about those.
If you need 75 to 100 banks of an MU128, perhaps Logic isn't the best
DAW for you. You have already spent your money on Cubase and Sonar,
you think they are better than Logic, which for your purposes they
are. So I can't quite understand why you have spent a lot of money on
Logic, a program that you don't like and doesn't do what you want,
then complain about it.