Why is the new Logic Studio so much cheaper than Logic Pro 7

[adurig]

I guess I should just shut up and be happy, but I feel a bit confused. I have checked out as much as I can find about the new Logic Studio with Logic Pro 8, Mainstage, Soundtrack Pro 2, more and new instruments, tons more loops, etc. As a big fan and user of Logic Pro 7, I really like what I see in Logic Studio and Logic Pro 8. But why half the price?
- To draw new users?
- To get more market share?
- To move people off the PC?
- All of the above?
- Some other reason?

[earthloop]

I guess I should just shut up and be happy, but I feel a bit confused. I have checked out as much as I can find about the new Logic Studio with Logic Pro 8, Mainstage, Soundtrack Pro 2, more and new instruments, tons more loops, etc. As a big fan and user of Logic Pro 7, I really like what I see in Logic Studio and Logic Pro 8. But why half the price?
- To draw new users?
- To get more market share?
- To move people off the PC?
- All of the above?
- Some other reason?

The obvious answer is "all of the above"! If you (as a company) already have all the various bits (separate apps) but perhaps are not selling heaps of any individual parts of this inventory, then why not put them all together, tidy up the package with a more accessable interface and workflow (this is where the work has been done - not creating anything new so it didn't cost so much to create and is so good that even people using other hardware/OS platforms think "Hmmm...I could justify changing to a Mac to use that baby!

I would seriously consider this option if I was still on a Windows based system (which I was until relatively recently)

[adurig]

Many thanks earthloop. Your explanation makes great sense.

[earthloop]

Go here to see (official links to) all the new stuff in Logic Pro 8 and the rest"

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

[jsepeta]

version 7 included SoundDiver, which has been lost in the rush to come out with version 8. words cannot express my extreme disappointment.

[Jowboy]

adurig:

Thank you so much for asking that question. The same question was on my mind as well, but I didn't want to ask.

[corgan4321]

What was SoundDiver?

[Neil Parfitt]

Logic 8 ordered and on it's way... I'm really excited to test the surround plugins and AC3 encoding. I'll be write up something fairly lengthy for the forum I'm sure!

-Neil

[jnz]

Who cares about Logic 8 - I want Sonar 7!!!

j/k

I'm just jealous because you get to try out new software and I don't

jnz

[G-Dub]

adurig:

Thank you so much for asking that question. The same question was on my mind as well, but I didn't want to ask.

The beta still works , with dongle attached.

will they get rid of the beta designation? Now that I'm virtual I don't care.

[Tweak]

Ordered mine today.

[jsepeta]

What was SoundDiver?

sounddiver in 2000 was the top editor/librarian program for hardware synths. a lightweight standalone version of the program had been bundled with a number of synths including jv/xp/xv synths from roland and many others.

sounddiver was written by Michael Haydn in Germany and taken over by Emagic. he worked for them as a programmer and i believe he is now an apple employee. apple/michael created an upgrade for SoundDiver to OSX a few years ago but it never really came out of beta. with logic pro 7 you could install it, but it's been very difficult to find since apple stopped selling the standalone product as emagic had.

why use sounddiver? it's the easiest graphical interface supporting the largest number of synths. it can import .SYX files saved through a number of applications, then allow you to name and keyword tag patches, and search for duplicates to delete. it allows you to demo sounds you're creating without having to load them into your synth by using cache memory. all in all, it's a wicked tool and of critical importance to hardware jockeys like myself who own a lot of synth hardware. apple, being in the software instrument game, cares not one lick for this product and so it has suffered the death of the forgotten.

sounddiver forum
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/soun ... s/messages
17000+ messages. wow. the institutional knowledge of this product is phenomenal. you can even create "adaptations" for unsupported synths or midi mixers or controllers or effects devices to bind such hardware into your logic environment. if you want to call up patches from hardware synths within logic, sounddiver is the tool that makes it happen.