In order for Apple to make inroads into the Pro Tools market, I think they would need to provide something far more robust than Garage Band, and far less costly (think: half) than Logic Pro.

If they did this, it would provide a competitive tool for all those small studios out there who are running Apple hardware already.

I have never tried Logic Pro simply because Pro Tools is the industry standard. If I need to collaborate with another studio, I need Pro Tools.

Garage Band is a great tool as well–if you are trying to make a podcast, or just a simple thing, but it lacks a whole lot of features when stacked against Pro Tools, or Logic Pro.

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Sounds like you are describing Logic Express? I have helped many of my clients set up a home/project studios with just that and they are largely happy.

I don't think Logic will kill ProTools anytime soon and I am sure we will see ProTools go universal some time in the future. But I don't think Logic is or has been hurting as bad as ProTools evangelist will have us believe.

I have both ProTools and Logic. ProTools lets me easily work with material from other studios. But I prefer Logic if I am starting from scratch and for certain applications. I have worked in many studios for everything from voice over work to music production and I see Logic side by side with ProTools in many if not most of them.

This news on the Intel ready logic is the first thing to make me drool a litte over the new powerbooks er i mean macbook pros.

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Still doens't solve that pesky problem your post brings up.. hardware cost.

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Sadly, I'm missing NAMM this year or I'd have tried to get more details (the guys tell me they will give me the downlow on Logic after its over).

*BUT* in regards to ProTools and Logic -- there are no comparisons. Two wildly different apps. Most pro studios I know have them linked together for this very reason.

I've always looked at ProTools as a MultiTrack Tape emulator -- it acts like a conventional deck but with some nice DAW additions and never goes too far away from its ideals. If I'm working with a band that can get everything on the first take -- I pick this over Logic everytime.

Logic on the other hand, was designed for the creative end of things...lots of screwing around with the audio. Lots of interactions with MIDI. I don't even know where to begin with the description because its MUCH deeper than ProTools. ProTools you can learn in a day or two...Logic will take you a week or two just to understand it enough to hit record -- much steeper learning curve, but once you get the concepts a lot of the things that you bang your head on in PT are relatively quick.

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It would be great if the two were compatible... as a user of both, protools is the best for recording a song, logic is best for recording an idea. The biggest reason logic is not the standard is hardware. Digidesign makes great hardware to use with macs or pcs, while apple just makes the mac itself. If logic were to take over as a standard, it would have to have an interface made specifically for it.. which i dont believe is an industry apple is ready for. perhaps an apple branded 'mbox'-like device would be a good start.

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Hmm... as I mentioned elsewhere today the new GB3 sound effects appear automatically in Logic Pro's loop browser under the heading "GarageBand 3.0 iLife Sound Effects". But while they're available, they aren't categorized as they are in GB3 (jingle, effects). Looking forward to the rewire stuff.

BTW, for those who are interested I'll have a tip about creating that same ducking effect in Logic Pro right now (with a lot more control) in my next podcast (plug-look for jade leary in the iTMS-end plug)

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Logic and ProTools are about as compatible as any two audio apps can possible be. I've run the two piggy-back is as many differnet configurations as you can think of, and it's tight.

Logic's new resurgence, at least here in LA, has everything to do with it's compatability with Final Cut. Audio for the music industry is a very, very small slice of the pie. Audio for video is 800 pound gorilla here, and Logic+FCP is become the rig of choice.

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michael... i mean, itd be great to compose a song in logic, and polish it in protools, as well as send it off for someone else to work with.

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