The Logic Off Topic list

On Saturday, July 19, 2003, at 09:37 AM, Eric Baird wrote:

> Thing is ... after we've paid the price, in terms of losing the cross-
> platform stuff, are emagic actually then going to go ahead and
> redesign this great user-interface that we are waiting for, or are
> they going to decide that the payoff isn't worth it at this late
> stage, and keep the program pretty much as it already is?

a good question - I am hopeful that there is some of the old Atari 
spirit left at Emagic and that they will really spiff up the 
performance, interface etc now that there is an opportunity. (i.e. they 
only have to worry about 1 OS). Quicktime integration has needed 
improvement for a long time.  That's a big one for me. I just hope they 
do it.

> In fact, we never even got support for basic stuff like program
> changes or mono mode!

> optimised operating system partly redesigned by emagic, and a new
> architecture, and the new focus on a single operating system ... it
> still doesn't seem to be stable! :-)

Hard to say - I only use X for my live rig. It grumbles now and then 
but never crashes. I work the program much harder under 9.2.2 - with 
the usual grumbles and it still tries to "save my song" too often for 
my liking

> Of coursed, perhaps emagic are still struggling with cross-platform
> code in order to be able to support both OSX and OS9, and perhaps we
> won't see the real advantages until they go OSX-only. Which they
> don't seem to have any public timetable for. Hmm.

It is inevitable that they will have a final rev for 9 at some point - 
but I think they need to wait longer. For myself, I still use 9 for 
everyday work but imagine that I will try going X now that some of my 
favs from NI have gone AU. My "office" machine and live rig both run 
under X and I have to say that it is much much more fun in general than 
9, so I am looking forward to getting it all under X as soon as 
possible.

> I liked the idea of a logic-optimised version of UNIX with all the
> unneccessary stuff stripped out or pre-disabled, bundled
> with "logix", and I think a lot of musicians would have been very
> happy to have a music PC that simply boots up into a pre-tweeked
> dedicated emagic environment.
> But now it'll never happen <sigh>.

Well, to do the things that we all do in a program like Logic, I think 
there has to be an elegant graphic shell on top of whatever flavor of 
UNIX. My feeling is that X is pretty good - but I agree with you about 
wanting some lean mean performer without too much eye candy or 
overhead. Makes you yearn for Be, doesn't it?