Just wanted to give feedback to Gio, Chris, GA, and everyone else who
helped out with this decision --
I purchased the $295 upgrade path from Logic 5 Plat to 7.2 Pro, using
my old blue XS-Key. Contrary to what the Apples sales people "and
several of their engineers" told me, the upgrade worked perfectly,
and I am the proud owner of Logic Pro 7.2 on a MacBook Pro.
And I am totally loving it. I can do more in Logic in a day than I
could a week with Samp or Acid on the PC. I'm already well into a
chant/shoegazer piece that's been ringing around in my head for a
couple years now. With native loop support (7.2 let me import ACID
loops drag-n-drop, no questions asked, made them into Apple loops),
plus Absynth 4, Philharmonik, and Battery, I have some gorgeous
sounds to play with, and no CPU problems (once I turned overload
messages off...that's another story).
So thanks for all your support and encouragement. I'm still slightly
amazed that Apple almost talked me out of buying Logic, to say
nothing of the Mac purchase itself.
Skip
On Jul 25, 2007, at 9:10 PM, Chris Coccia wrote:
>
> On Jul 25, 2007, at 5:02 PM, GAmoore@... wrote:
>
> > I think the 7.2 upgrade was $50, the 7.1 upgrade was $20, but the
> > upgrade
> > from 6 to 7 was $300, and previous major upgrades (5 to 6, 4 to 5,
> > etc) were
> > about $200 but I can recall clearly. Emagic used to give all x.?
> > upgrades free and
> > only charge the big ones, but Apple is charging every little too.
> >
> >
>
> I dont remember having to pay a dime for 7.1. But maybe I just have a
> shitty memory.
> The reason you had to pay for the 7.2 Crossgrade was it came on two
> DVD's.
> The content disc alone, whether you actually install it or not was a
> dual layer dvd on top of that.
> Not like Apple could put up the discs and let everyone on dialup drag
> down their site for years on end.
>
> Although I still like to think they couldve given us some sort of
> downloadable UB installer for it instead of making us buy it along
> with like 7GB of loops Im never going to use and dont even have
> installed.
>
> I lucked out in the beginning though.. When I went to buy an academic
> version of Platinum 5 at Guitar Center they didnt carry em. But the
> greasy sales guy still sold it to me for $400 (cause I told him never
> mind Ill get it from audiomidi.com) which has allowed me to stay on
> the regular upgrade path ever since.
>
> ---
> Chris
> www.monotrematamusic.com
> www.descentrecords.com
>
>
>
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