It’s been a few weeks since my last post, and not without good reason. A major thing has happened in those weeks – something I thought would never happen… I’ve gone and changed to the ‘other side’.

Let me explain…

Two weeks or so ago, I was recording on Cubase, and had a bit if a crash. Nothing terribly unusual there, except this time, it’d been about 2 hours since I saved (stupid boy!) and I lost a load of stuff. Again, not too unusual – its happened before. However, this time, it really got on my nerves – so much that I decided to do something I’d never even considered up until now – have a look again at Logic Pro. I’ve had the idea of going ‘Mac Native’ for a while now, but havent due to the stupid cost of Logic Pro 7 on the mac (a penny under £700 in most places). However – Apple have had a bit of a revalation. I went to the apple site to look up the specs etc for Logic, and found out, much to my suprise, that a new product (or suite of products) has been released by Apple… Logic Studio.

Logic Studio contains not only the newly spanky Logic Pro 8, but also a great app called ‘Mainstage’, designed for Live use (Basically giving you access to All Logic’s instruments and effects in a live environment), and also Jam Packs 1 – 5 (normally £75 each!), and also, Soundtrack Pro, the Video Audio software.

What price this cracking bundle of software? £1000?

no!

£319.

£319 – yes you saw right. Available for £275 on the interwebs (Amazon.co.uk for example), or even cheaper on Ebay (original now – not hooky copy!). Not only has it been brought down to a reasonable cost, but it’s now it’s dongleless… freeing up a USB port, and also freeing you from the pain-in-the-ass of the archaic copy-protection that has plagued most decent DAW software for the last 10 years!

Cor!

So – I promptly decided to have a go. And I havent looked back! At the moment, the prospects of me returning to Cubase are extremely slim. I have the majority of what I need in Logic Studio (of which I will produce a feature rundown and review fairly soon), and am now OS X native with my DAW. I never thought this would happen, but now Apple have gone and produced such a fantastic piece of software with Logic Studio, I can see no reason to shackle myself with Windows any longer!

Long live OS X, and (hopefully), good riddance to Windows as a going concern.

I’ll let you know how it goes!