Is logic now your one app to rule them all?

thesoundtestroom

@wim As Picard may say, I have made it so👍

wim

Thank you sir!
My head is now so much easier to keep under the sand.

michael_m

I think it could be a great tool for me, but I don’t want a subscription. I’d be happy to pay once and be done with it.

HotStrange

I got the sub and stuck it out with Logic for a few months and really tried my best to give it a fair shake but it just wasn’t for me. I could never click with the UI and too many things bugged me personally so it ended up not being a very productive workflow in the end.

That said, there’s lots to love about it and if any DAW could be the “end all be all” it’s that one just due to how good the stock instruments and effects are. If I could no longer use my AUs Logic would have to be my go to. Luckily that’s not the case so I’m back to Cubasis 3. Zenbeats is also great but too unstable.

I mainly only use DAWs to master stems and only very occasionally to make full tracks so it’s not a huge deal. Drambo, MiRack, and Koala are my go to apps and AUM, Drambo, and Loopy Pro is where most of my music is made.

JohnnyGoodyear

Yes and no, but yes.

Schmotown

Having used both Zenbeats and Logic for awhile, I ended up going with Logic. Not because Zenbeats isn’t wonderful. It is and in some respects it feels more inspiring. But several factors won me over to Logic:

• Logic’s native plugins are exceptionally good (e.g. Drummer) even if a few have wonky UIs.
• I love Logic’s plugin tiles. I play mainly guitar so I put Logic’s Tuner first on any guitar track where it’s always visible as a tile.
• I use Apple’s Magic Keyboard with the iPad Pro and usually prefer its trackpad to using the touchscreen. Logic supports most of the trackpad functionality as well as key commands, like spacebar stop/start, while Zenbeats doesn’t, at least not yet.
• Work done in Logic is automatically backed up to iCloud. Zenbeats isn’t (yet) integrated with iCloud.
• I’ve had Logic on a MacBook since eMagic days and foresee starting projects on the iPad and finishing them on the Mac, although I haven’t needed to do that yet.

reezygle

No but I do have it. I’ve used a couple of its effect AUs in AUM and other hosts here and there. I don’t need or want to do the same thing I do on the desktop on the iPad. I like that it’s different and there are lots of choices.

Also my workflow is more clip-based like Ableton. Logic Pro is not great at that.

NeuM

Yes on desktop, but I still haven't given up entirely on GarageBand. Maybe a 'yes' on iPadOS once I decide to spring for a new iPad Pro. And rumor has it new iPads are coming soon.

MrSmileZ

iPad Pro ultras! 14” or maybe even 16” and it will be mineeeeeees

fisherro

Since Logic, I have only opened the other DAWs to check out projects started in them. Any of those projects that are unfinished that I choose to work on will likely get migrated to Logic. Except maybe some in NS2.

I’m currently working on an expanded version of a GarageBand for Mac project that I moved over to Logic for iPad for the tempo and time signature tracks.

rs2000

Logic on iPad is a well done app, no question.
But for me it lacks the simplicity and immediacy of Gadget for composing, and the freedom and playfulness of Drambo for experimentation. And to provide this kind of fun is the main job of my iPad.

AudioGus

@rs2000 said:
Logic on iPad is a well done app, no question.
But for me it lacks the simplicity and immediacy of Gadget for composing, and the freedom and playfulness of Drambo for experimentation. And to provide this kind of fun is the main job of my iPad.

Yah I have gone back to Gadget recently. Nice clean, pain free inspired stems and midi out to desktop. I link the Drummer apps, Patterning and BM3 for side duty and all is well in iPad land again.

BroCoast

@AudioGus said:
Patterning and BM3 for side duty and all is well in iPad land again.

It definitely revived my appreciation for both of those apps.