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Re: [Logic_Cafe] To upgrade or not?
2004-12-20 by GAmoore@aol.com
I do orchestral work so I
have a pretty heavy load of samples. I
I have been having a lot of crashes with L7 too. I particularly experienced a lot of crashes with a lot of ram usage - about 10 frozen Virtual instrument tracks - including one Garritan track - and about 8 audio tracks. I tried to freeze as much as possible (1.2 g G4 with 1 Gig of Ram) but still I would have Logic just die without a comment and lose my work, or else it would lock up the whole machine (mac os 10.3.6), and I would have to reboot. I really feel its a beta version, and its surprising that they released it in this form, and its even more surprising that its been several months without a single upgrade or fix.
I think the interface changes/improvements are pretty inconsequential - its 95% the same. I like the marker track best, small improvement that it is (the chord analysis track is so dangerous to use that I won't touch it - since it will completely messup all midi tracks). I like the Sculpure plug - its useful and different, and Ultrabeat is a good idea which came along way too late after many other alternatives exist (e.g. Battery2). ESFM2 is fairly nice but I haven't found a use for it yet.
The templates-instead-of-autoload feature sounds great but I had a hard time getting it to save.
One little feature that I have not heard anyone mention is that you can make any arrange item repeat any number of times by grabbing the top third of the region and dragging. Before 7, I used to use little one measure empty sequences to stop loops from going infinitely. I no longer have to do that.
You do have to download upgrades for every single plug and soft synth to get the validating version. But I did all mine in a day with little trouble.
All in all, in a bunch of little improvements/changes, some new plugs, and plenty of new bugs. Most of the clumsy design features are all there. (I was running a bug list of about 40 bugs on the LUG last month - for example, FF and Rewind going into infinite loops, the circular file structure error, etc.). I was hoping for more of a serious re-write of the program.
I keep hoping an update which fixes the bugs will be released any day. I'm not sure there is any real reason to upgrade now.