Apple Logic Pro /LogicExpress Discussion

GAMoore wrote:

> No, this is opposite of what I have heard for years on the LUG. I've 
> heard
> plenty of the emagic elite making comments to the affect "If you 
> complain about
> Logic being too complicated, obtuse, or difficult to use then you are
> forgetting this is a 'pro' application" - as if 'pro' is an excuse to 
> not make it
> simple and straight forward.
> ...
>
> It would be like in the 1800's, if you say "Hey, I think the most 
> expensive
> houses should have indoor plumbing and bathrooms" and these guys say 
> "well, its
> not really any trouble to light a candle and walk a hundred paces in 
> the
> middle of the night to the outhouse. Why should the house builder go 
> to all that
> trouble just for the occasional convenience of someone?".

Love that image!

When at NAMM I stopped in at Melodyne/Access.  I saw the rep demo-ing a 
global quantization and tuning feature with a big, beautiful, 
easy-to-use, middle-aged-eye-friendly dialogue box that I'd never seen 
before in the program.  At first I thought he was running a beta of a 
new release, but it turns out that it is from their entry-level 
"Melody-lite" version.

To accomplish the same thing in the pro version you have to select a 
tiny tool from a pulldown menu of almost indistinguishable other tiny 
tools, put it place, and then go to an obscure pulldown menu in another 
nano-scaled box. I asked the rep, "This is what I'd get if I were an 
amateur, but because I'm a pro I get to do it the unnecessarily 
complicated and difficult way?"

He smiled, nodded, and said, simply, "Ya."

Best Wishes,
Michael A. Levine
www.MichaelLevineMusic.com