LOGIC pro 8 Announced today! Price Cut!

by **gregovertone** on Wed Sep 12, 2007 7:45 am

http://www.macrumors.com/2007/09/12/app ... ic-studio/

Apple released Logic Studio today. Logic Studio features Logic Pro 8, and introduces a new live performace application called MainStage. Logic Studio also includes Soundtrack Pro 2, Apple's professional audio post production software; Studio Instruments, made up of 40 pristine quality instruments; Studio Effects, with 80 professional effect plug-ins; a vast Studio Sound Library; and a powerful set of production utilities.
From the fun and intuitive GarageBand to the all new Logic Studio, there's never been a better time to be a musician on the Mac," said Rob Schoeben, Apple's vice president of Applications Product Marketing. "For less than $500, Logic Studio transforms the Mac into the most powerful musical instrument in the world."

Logic Studio is available now for $499.

by **Jowboy** on Wed Sep 12, 2007 8:16 am

I just opened up the page and saw that. I was highly impressed. It looks like I might need to upgrade my OS on my G5 though. It says that you need OSX 10.4.9

It looks pretty exciting. The price cut worried me. Did they cut features, or did they just figure that Logic wasn't selling well enough at nearly $1k? It certainly doesn't LOOK like they cut any features. In fact, it looks like they added a few things.

Price cuts always scare me

by **earthloop** on Wed Sep 12, 2007 9:52 am

Wow! Yeah, I was just reading about this. From my own reading of the various Logic forums over the last year or so I can see a lot in here that people have been asking for...and also obviously Apple's desire to create an audio production app to draw music makers from the Windows platform to the Mac! :twisted:

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by **gregovertone** on Wed Sep 12, 2007 10:32 am

this looks SICK......

i was trying to decide between an 002/digimax/PT LE or a Firestudio/digimax/LogicPro....

this is certainly a HUGE factor now.

macnerd4lyfe

by **earthloop** on Wed Sep 12, 2007 10:48 am

Among the actual technical/workflow 'enhancements' etc, there is this minor gem:

"XSKey-free operation
A simple serial number replaces the USB dongle and lets you make music without the hassle of extraneous hardware." !!!

by **Hepcat62** on Wed Sep 12, 2007 10:59 am

The new take management for audio recording is about to leave me several hundred dollars poorer. That's the one thing I've been missing from Cubase, and Logic just got an even better version...

by **Razorruss** on Wed Sep 12, 2007 11:48 am

Oh, WOW!

I had planned on ordering Logic 7 on Monday! Ran into a delay. Thankfully!

and now $500 less?

OH WOW!

:shock:

by **gibong** on Wed Sep 12, 2007 12:43 pm

It might be time for me to say "bye" to Steinberg. Has anyone found an Academic price?

That new Apogee Duet interface looks very nice too.

by **gregovertone** on Wed Sep 12, 2007 12:44 pm

edu is $449.

by **earthloop** on Wed Sep 12, 2007 3:02 pm

Go here for all the latest info on Logic 8

http://www.logicprohelp.com/viewtopic.php?t=13998

by **jsepeta** on Wed Sep 12, 2007 4:25 pm

Jowboy wrote:It says that you need OSX 10.4.9

also 2gb ram, and some 40gb+ of hard disk space. additionally, although the g4 is supported, they recommend G5, core 2 duo, and Xeon processors.

the 10.4.9 is a deal breaker for me, because protools le / m-powered only supports up to 10.4.8

by **Jowboy** on Wed Sep 12, 2007 6:00 pm

gibong wrote:It might be time for me to say "bye" to Steinberg. Has anyone found an Academic price?

That new Apogee Duet interface looks very nice too.

The academic price is $459 USD. Not quite a huge discount, but then again, compared to what Logic USED to cost, who cares? The student discount on Logic 7 was nearly 50% off. So now everybody gets it half price.

by **Jowboy** on Wed Sep 12, 2007 6:02 pm

jsepeta wrote:
Jowboy wrote:It says that you need OSX 10.4.9

also 2gb ram, and some 40gb+ of hard disk space. additionally, although the g4 is supported, they recommend G5, core 2 duo, and Xeon processors.

the 10.4.9 is a deal breaker for me, because protools le / m-powered only supports up to 10.4.8

I'm not too worried about the hard drive space. My PC has been very ill behaved lately and I think that I will punish it by stealing it's hardrives and reformatting them. Of course, since my PC won't even turn on any more, I don't think that it will care.

by **robbiedo** on Wed Sep 12, 2007 7:02 pm

Well, I went to the Apple Store and bought it. A complete install is 50GB. I had -40GB available on my laptop, so I did a basic install. It looks nice. I am going to go do a complete install on my Mac Pro. I will update soonest

by **Razorruss** on Wed Sep 12, 2007 7:18 pm

No word from Tweak Meister Rich yet!

I'll bet he can't wait to get his hands on this!

by **owel** on Wed Sep 12, 2007 7:45 pm

Tweak's having HD problems.

This is a very attractive price indeed... very tempting... very very tempting.

by **_controlfreak** on Wed Sep 12, 2007 7:55 pm

by **motulover** on Wed Sep 12, 2007 8:59 pm

God...I must order a copy.

by **antizero** on Wed Sep 12, 2007 10:24 pm

Tweak better write a review.

or somebody else..

But, I have to say this news is upsetting and also exciting at the same time. Exciting because I was just about to build a new cubase-based PC system, but thankfully I haven't yet. Maybe I'll get a mac pro and this instead.

by **steveintampa** on Thu Sep 13, 2007 4:51 am

The upgrade from Express is 299.00. Had Express and 1 jam pack.

This is a great deal, and if the new features work as described, will shave hours off of production time.

by **lumi387** on Thu Sep 13, 2007 5:33 am

They should give the people who bought the 1K version of Logic Pro 7 like me a free upgrade to Logic Pro 8. Now i have spended so far 1200 dollars on a 500 dollar software.. THAT SUCKS.. i was really happy to see the new Logic but i think its like i gave really rich apple corporation 700 bucks for nothing :cry:

by **red_cahill** on Thu Sep 13, 2007 10:48 am

I'm sold. I'm a PC/Cakewalk Pro Audio 9 user for the last 7 years. That's right. Got my money's worth I guess.

I first thought about upgrading to Sonar 6. Then I thought about Pro Tools LE. Bought my first Mac last month and started thinking Logic. Tuesday I bid and lost on Logic Pro 7. Then I started thinking Cubase Studio 4 and almost bought it YESTERDAY!! Next day 8 comes out at that price! Must be destiny. Apple has made up my mind for me. Thanks huge corporation!! Finally I can stop thinking. Very stoked. Gonna be very busy this fall and winter for sure.

I gotta go to the Apple store.

by **_controlfreak** on Thu Sep 13, 2007 2:50 pm

lumi387 wrote:They should give the people who bought the 1K version of Logic Pro 7 like me a free upgrade to Logic Pro 8. Now i have spended so far 1200 dollars on a 500 dollar software.. THAT SUCKS.. i was really happy to see the new Logic but i think its like i gave really rich apple corporation 700 bucks for nothing

Did you buy it after August 1st? If so, you can get the new version for $10: http://www.apple.com/logicstudio/uptodate/

No crossgrades.

by **lightspeed** on Thu Sep 13, 2007 5:47 pm

I would love to get into logic for this price. But I've never used a mac...never even touched one so I wouldn't have a clue what to do, let alone make any music.

by **_controlfreak** on Thu Sep 13, 2007 6:57 pm

lightspeed wrote:But I've never used a mac...never even touched one so I wouldn't have a clue what to do, let alone make any music.

It's very much like using a PC, only without anything negative. :twisted:

The interface is easy to get used to if you let yourself.

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